I don't feel shredded

[Anonymous]

after a Jillian Michaels' workout.

What am I doing wrong?

[Anonymous]

You must be in pretty good shape. Try heavier hand weights.

[Anonymous]

what level are you doing?

[Anonymous]

and how often do you do it per week, and how long have you been doing it?

[Anonymous]

Actually, I just started - began with level 2 and tried level 3. Prior to that I was doing the Firm workouts with weights about 3x/week. I love weights but also like walking for about an hour on nice days.

I like Jillian, by the way. I think she's very thorough and cues fairly well for the most part. Maybe I'll try heavier weights, but with some of the moves, staying with lighter weights is better for form b/c I'm not shaky.

thanks!

[Anonymous]

Once a week, I do the entire video. Without stopping. I use anywhere from 3lb - 8lb handweights, depending on the move. Try that and let me know if you don't feel shredded.

[Anonymous]

I've been doing the shred and my elbow is swollen. I think it's from the boxing stuff (I never could do any of that boxing kind of stuff). I've only been doing it a couple days. I think it's a decent work out for the amopunt of tim eyou put in. I've been sore (but I'm out of shape right now).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once a week, I do the entire video. Without stopping. I use anywhere from 3lb - 8lb handweights, depending on the move. Try that and let me know if you don't feel shredded.

OP here -

Last night my stomach felt shredded as hell! So I'm taking back part of what I said earlier! Why the delayed reaction is a mystery to me! It's still sore (in a good way) this morning - in places where I never thought muscle existed.

[Anonymous]

I like to mix up the levels rather than doing one level over and over. It makes you work different muscles and does make you feel shredded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been doing the shred and my elbow is swollen. I think it's from the boxing stuff (I never could do any of that boxing kind of stuff). I've only been doing it a couple days. I think it's a decent work out for the amopunt of tim eyou put in. I've been sore (but I'm out of shape right now).

Might be worth having someone check your form. I haven't had problems with my elbow, but my left shoulder was hurting. Turns out I wasn't doing the shoulder raises (or whatever they are called) properly. Changing the alignment of my arms fore-aft made a huge difference. Possible that a google search on the arm exercises would turn up some pointers on proper form. Also, don't use too heavy of a weight.

[Anonymous]

What hurts my elbow are those side plank sit-ups or whatever you want to call them. The ones at the very end of Level 3. Elbow pain every time. Now I use a towel underneath.

[Anonymous]

Are you doing the modified version of them? If not, maybe try that and see if it hurts. Also, on some of her moves I've substituted other things that I like better. Like the last ab exercise in level two, the plank twists, those kill my arms and wrists for some reason. So some days if I'm not feeling quite up to it, I just do an ab hold plank for 60 seconds instead. I've read that that's an incredibly effective ab exercise, so I don't feel quite like I'm cheating, just modifying a bit. So if there are moves that really bother you -- like the side ab planks -- try substituting something else for that time.

[Anonymous]

isn't the shred designed to be done every day?