Jillian Michaels: 30 Day Shred

This dvd home workout has been around for a while but I haven't tried it before. I'm a big fan of The Biggest Loser and I have used their Wii game in the past but as a general rule, I don't really enjoy workout dvds. I get very bored with them, they tend to be very repetitive as do the silly jokes made on them by the presenters. That really puts me off listening to them every day.

However, negativity aside I didn't want the expense of joining the gym when I moved back to England. And, neither did I particularly want to be a cliche: one of those people you stare at on the treadmill in the first week of January, knowing full well that they wont be around in February. And because I happened to move back into the area in December, I would therefore by default have had to become one of them.

So this dvd appealed for a couple of reasons:

1. It only lasts 30 days and it is broken down into 3 levels each of 10 days. For me that was a feeling of progression, by following a month-long programme and not just a cheap alternative to going to the gym.

2. It is not presented by some D-list celebrity who will be proclaiming how fat and unhappy they are on the front of Closer magazine in 6 months' time. Jillian Michaels is a bonafide personal trainer who I have seen transform people's lives over and over again on The Biggest Loser. She gets results. I want results. Simple.

I'll be blogging each level so for those of you interested in trying it, I'll try to be as detailed as possible, sweat drip by sweat drip. It's going to be fun.