There are two women with Jillian, one showing beginner modifications and one just doing the exercises. Each workout has 3 of these 3-2-1 circuits. For most of the segments of each circuit you alternate between two different exercises. But she doesn’t bore you and burn you out by making you do 3 solid minutes of the same move. These workouts are set up in Jillian’s 3-2-1 circuits: 3 minutes of strength, 2 minutes of cardio and 1 minute of ab work. I really need to use all of Jillian’s tough 30 minute workouts as my doubles workouts far more frequently! And with Level 2 & 3 I was panting and seriously sweating. And after all of the workouts my arms and shoulders were burning by the end. Instead, for Level 1 I used 7, 8, 12 and 15 pound dumbbells, for Level 2 I used 5, 7, 8 and 15 pound dumbbells and for Level 3 I used 12 and 15 pound dumbbells and 5 pounders for the cardio. If I had gone that route these workouts would not have been as challenging. In 30 Day Shred, Jillian and crew had one set of dumbbells that looked like 5 pounds. But these are awesome, tough and seriously effective, too! How effective, as I always say and will continue to say, depends on the weights you choose (though not entirely–there is a good bit of body weight exercises that are very tough, so dumbbells are not required for all the tough stuff). When people call and say they are doing 30 Day Shred, she sends them her more current workouts, saying they are old school and her new ones are better.
Levels 2 & 3 are super tough and had me seriously sucking wind! I listen to Jillian’s podcast and she is rather disparaging about 30 Day Shred. I really need to put these back into my doubles rotation. In fact, as I did them–Levels 2 & 3 especially–I wondered why I had not done them in so long. Big change in Jillian’s style of workouts but still great workouts. In fact, I did Jillian’s Hard Body workouts in the mornings the same week that I did 30 Day Shred as my doubles workouts. I would do two of these little workouts back-to-back–then on Saturdays I would attempt to do all 3! It killed me! Now I am revisiting them as my doubles workout–one at a time. So I wanted everything packed into that hour. Just one hour long workout every morning. I remember back in 2008 I didn’t do doubles. There are 3 workouts on this DVD–Level 1, 2, & 3. Probably the shortest of all of Jillian’s workouts that I own clocking on at 27 minutes each. I found it very tough in 2008 so I was really looking forward to returning to it to see how it stood the test of time. 30 Day Shred came out in 2008 and I bought it right when it came out. Not old, old school–I sold those DVDs on Amazon a long time ago–but this is when her workouts started getting really good and really effective. 30 Day Shred is old school Jillian Michaels.
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