Review: Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred DVD

Got 25 minutes? Spend it ’shredding’.

Most of us excuse ourselves from having a regular exercise regimen because of our busy schedule. But if you really want to establish a workable routine that will fit into your daily activities, then a short exercise video would be the easiest solution. Let’s look at a particular video – Jillian Michaels – 30 Day Shred (Amazon affiliate link) ”

There are so many short exercise videos out there, specifically because trainers already know you’re busy and they want to give you no excuse not to work out. There’s that important question, though, of how effective a short exercise video can be.
The Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels leads the workout in this video. It features workouts that are around 25 minutes long. It surely sounds like a short time but when you do it for the first few times, especially if you haven’t been working out for a long period of time, you’ll surely feel like you did an hour and a half’s worth of exercise.

• The effectiveness of this workout comes from the intensity, not the amount of time you spend doing it.
• You will have no chance of resting in between the routines. It is designed to move you to the next routine right after a previous one.
• Jillian stresses in the video that it’s better to really work your body in a shorter amount of time than spend hours faking it at the gym.

There are three parts to a work out. Every part is made of 3 minutes of strength training, 2 minutes of cardio and one minute abdominal exercises. The workouts involve movements that require larger muscles and more muscles at the same time. This adds to the intensity and fat burn.

Jillian Michaels – 30 Day Shred” (Amazon affiliate link)

DVD is designed to take you through 30 days of workouts with progressing intensity.
• You spend the first ten days following Level 1.
• The next ten days will have you perform Level 2 and the last ten days will see you through Level 3.
• People who qualify themselves as intermediate exercisers or advanced exercisers might want to skip Level 1.
• However, it will do everybody good to start with Level 1. After all, you will not find the intensity of the workouts in Level 1 disappointing.

Jillian Michaels provides really great motivation. For most of the exercises, there are equivalent beginner moves so that you can still perform them if you’re a beginner. The difference for beginner moves is that there is a shorter range of motion. The workouts are doable but they are definitely not easy, enough to challenge you and shred your fats day by day.

After this short workout, you will definitely feel that you spent 25 minutes of your day wisely. In that short amount of time, which is easy to squeeze into your morning routine before going to the office or your evening routine after coming home from work, you will have worked your muscles enough to shred those pounds and shape your body into a healthy new form.

Go For Those Calorie Burning Activities !

There are many roads leading to weight loss but the most proven and effective way is still through proper diet and exercises that focus on how to burn calories. And to understand how calorie burning works is to first know how many calories you are burning for each activity you undertake. How many calories do you burn with each activity?

The number of calories that you burn in any activity depends on a lot of factors such as age, body structure, heredity and lifestyle. Below is a table that shows the amount of calories burnt on some examples of outdoor activities per 3 levels of weight: 100 pounds, 150 pounds, and 200 pounds.

Activity                                                                 Calories Used Up 100                   150                200    (pounds)

Step Aerobics with a 4 inch step                  145                   218                290 Hiking                                                                 155                  232                310 Basketball Game                                              220                   330                440 Canoeing  (2.5 mph)                                          70                   105                140 Golfing  (walking, no cart)                               100                  150                 200 Jogging  (5 mph)                                                185                  278                 370 Mowing                                                               135                  202                 270 Swimming  (25 yards per minute)                  120                   180                 240 Walking (3 mph)                                                 80                    120                 160 Washing car                                                        75                    112                  150

Based on this chart, it shows how every step and every movement can help lead you to a healthy path. Exercising doesn’t have to start in a gym and spending hours on cardio machines, simply walking uphill and running laps through water will burn those calories down. Learning how your daily routines match up against a regular workout on the treadmill can help you plan your exercise routine based on your fitness level, time and even your budget. Turn everyday activities into calorie-burning workouts now!

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Keeping Us Healthy, Does Exercise Work?

Studies have shown that exercise can improve an individual’s physical, as well as mental and emotional well-being.

The onset of diabetes in people at risk can be reduced through moderate exercise.  Exercise may also be a big factor in reducing one’s risk of breast cancer, colon cancer and heart disease. Although studies have shown varying conclusions, exercise may also be beneficial for people suffering from osteoporosis. Exercise alone will not lead to reduced blood pressure or cholesterol, and it is not the only means of losing weight.

Through the years, exercise has been glorified as the be all and end all of one’s physical well-being.  It’s been said that walking 20 to 30 minutes a day will improve one’s health. A few minutes of walking here and there, just as long as you reach the 20 to 30 minute minimum is enough to keep you healthy.

• However, you choose to do this, will help you lose weight, keep your blood pressure under control and decrease the possibility of developing osteoporosis.

There is no doubt that exercise is beneficial to everybody. Exercise can be a fun activity, give you energy and put you in a good mood. However, there are certain findings that one has to consider before going into a fitness program.

• Walking and other forms of moderate exercise help reduce the risk of diabetes in people whose blood sugar is starting to rise. These people are usually obese and/or leading a sedentary lifestyle. This was the conclusion reached by researchers who conducted a large federal study wherein participants were assigned randomly to an exercise and diet program, take a diabetes drug or serve as controls.
• Despite all their efforts, the group who exercised and went on a diet lost very little weight. However, they were able to maintain a regular walking program and not all of them went on to develop diabetes.

People who change their lifestyle, from being sedentary to being moderately active, by means of walking, reaps the benefit of increased heart protection. In comparison, a more intense fitness regimen showed only slightly greater beneficial effects.

• It is an accepted fact that exercise may reduce the risk of heart disease. People who take part in an exercise regimen are very different from those who do not.
• Education seems to be a key predictor of good health and longer life, in general. Active people also tend to have more education. People who have an active lifestyle tend to be leaner and less likely to smoke.
• They eat differently compared to those who lead a sedentary lifestyle. With all these findings, it is therefore impossible to conclude whether exercise prevents heart disease or whether people who are at a lower risk of getting heart disease are the ones who are more likely to exercise.

Studies, similar to those done on heart disease, were conducted on the correlation of exercise and cancer, and these produced the same results.

• People who exercised are less likely to develop breast and colon cancer. However, they have not established whether that is cause or effect.
• There is no evidence to suggest that exercise alone will cause a decrease in blood pressure.  It does not make much difference in cholesterol levels either.
• Weight loss can aid in lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels but losing weight involves having a nutrition regimen too.

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