Review: Jillian Michaels, Boost Metabolism

Another Jillian Michaels review. I know. How boring am I? Well, I like the girl, what can I say?

So, I was in Target (I think I'm addicted) browsing for gifts for folks when I saw that they were having a sale on workout DVDs. I may have mentioned this last blog. While there I picked up two more Michaels DVDs. I tried one of them day before last! I was getting kind of bored with the 30 Day and I had a new one right there, so I thought 'hey, why not?' Even got my roommate to do it with me.

40 f-in' minutes. I knew that when I put it in, but oh my god.

Anyway, this program is sort of completely different. It says on the case that there are several circuts broken down; it sounded like a longer 30 Day pattern. It was not! She said 'OK, here's the first circuit,' or 'On to our next circuit,' but honestly it felt like sets in a long routine more than different routines strung together.

It was still good, don't get me wrong! It'll kick your butt from here to there and back again, but it's good.

The biggest plus for me is that it doesn't require any weights at all! It's just you and your body working. And it's still hard! woot.

It has lead me to the conlusion that I need to have a cardiac stress test done. After about 35 minutes of hard cardio my chest starts to hurt bad on the left side and my heart is hammering away. Not good. Soccer games have become a real b*tch.

So me and my roommate tried out the video, had a good time. She slowed to a stop before the very last set of moves and I was not long after. But we did pretty damn good. Funiest thing was the next day when she came to me and suggested we do level 1 on the 30 day. She never comes to me for it! I'm always prodding her out of bed and talking her into it! lol. I find it funny.

Doing something challenging one day and then not doing anything the next makes you feel kind of like a weeny. :) We don't take kindly to weeniness.