Wednesday, May 20, 2009

30 Days of Hell

After hearing great things about Jillian Michael's workout DVD The 30 Day Shred, I decided to try it out. I've had the DVD for a couple months now and finally decided to pull it out after seeing a blogger's success with it. I persuaded Ian to join me in the hell fun. Today will be the 3rd day if I can possibly do it.

Holy shit - I am out of shape. The 20 minutes of her workout have beads of sweat dripping off my face, have Ian cussing very obscene expletives at the TV screen (things I most certainly cannot repeat in this here blog), and have me thinking, can I even call what I do at the gym a workout?? And don't even get me started on the two women working out behind Jillian - all smiley and not sweating - it kind of, just a little bit, makes me want to punch them in the face.

It better be worth it. Every time I go to pee my legs feel like they're going to collapse. And going down the stairs - yowsers. Going up the steps you expect to feel sore after a good workout, but going down the steps always has a way of surprising you.

But at least I know it's making my body work - and hopefully the amount of sweat dripping off my face is just a clue as to how much fat my body is losing.

4 comments:

  1. Hello-

    I hope this isn't too weird but I found your blog by searching "living in Baltimore" on Google Blogs. We're moving to Baltimore from Colorado in August and probably living near UMB (my husband is going to Johns Hopkins; I'll be commuting to D.C. for work). Anyway, I was wondering if you had any advice for us (where to live, where to eat, etc)? I'd love to get some insight from someone close in age to us and married. Sorry if this is strange... this should link to my own blog if you're interested.

    -Amy (nyctoco2002@yahoo.com)

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  2. I did a few of the workouts when it was available on OnDemand. I really like them!

    While some of them are a tad annoying, I really like the fact that the workouts combine several moves at once.

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  3. I agree Kim - I love that multiple muscles are getting worked all at once, and that there's some cardio mixed in there.

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