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So Jillian Michaels Body Revolution system comes with a total of 15 workouts.  It is a 90 days system.  According to the literature, the sytem is design so that you are doing Phase 1 workouts for one month, Phase 2 workouts for a month and Phase 3 workouts for a month. While I really like the resistance workouts, I don't see myself doing these workouts for 3 months straight. However, I do think doing the workouts for three weeks is a great way to do them.  When I do the workouts again, I will probably sub-out the cardio.  While I like cardio 2, I didn't really care for cardio 1 and 3. I love the length of these workouts.  All the workouts clocked in under 36 minutes in length.  I was  able to add some 10 minute and 20 minute workouts as add-ons and still kept my workout time to under an hour. I forgot to mention when I introduce the system (3 weeks back) that it also comes with a 71 page 90 Day Journal.  You can record meals, calories and...

 Phase 3!!!!  Body Revolution Phase 3 that is - like Phase 1 and Phase 2, it contains 4 resistance-weight workouts and 1 cardio workout.  All workouts are around 35 minutes. The format is exactly the same as the other two phases.  However, the exercises are a bit harder and a bit more extreme (extreme as in the wheel push ups in circuit 2 of workout 12). The cardio has more impact and most of the exercises are compound in nature.  Expect lots of plank work - Jillian loves plank work in all its forms. A note about Cardio 3.  Jillian does some 24 exercises but she switches the order a bit when she moved from circuit one to circuit two. I don't think this was intentional. I think she forgot where she was.  Not a big deal, but the spreadsheet will be slightly off depending on which circuit you are on. Again a solid group of workouts.  3 & 3/4 stars

 Body Revolution Phase 2 is very similar to Phase 1.  You have 4 resistance workouts and 1 cardio workout.  The difference between the two phases is that you are working a little bit harder in phase 2 than phase 1.  The cardio has more impact.  The weight work is combining more muscle groups per exercise performed. I definitely like the Phase 2 Cardio 2 workout better than Cardio 1 workout in Phase 1.  In workouts 5 and 7, you are working the "front of the body"  and in workouts 6 and 8 your are working the "back of the body".  Roughly that translates into workouts 5 and 7 being heavily focus on Triceps, Chest, and Shoulder.  In workouts 6 and 8, you are working back, biceps, and some shoulders. Also a noted difference in Phase 2, is that you are using a lot more of the cable (resistance tubing) than you did in Phase 1.  I would say about a third of the exercises featured the tubing, about a third used weight and the other thir...

Jillian Michaels Body Revolution Phase 1 includes 5 workouts.  4 of the workouts are weight and resistance training and there is one cardio workout.  In Jillian's 90 day rotation, you are doing this group of workouts for the first 4 week. These workouts are also the workouts used to " Kickstart Your Metabolism".  So the workouts are all circuit style and pretty much follow the same format.  All the workouts include a brief warm up and cool down.   For the weight workouts, Jillian takes you through 4 circuits.  You do a series of four resistance exercises.  This is followed by a minute of cardio and then your repeat the four resistance moves before moving on to the next circuit. The cardio workout is circuit base to. After the warm up, you start with a series of 8 moves an d then you repeat the 8 moves two more times for a total of three circuits.  I had to think hard but I am pretty sure that these are my first Jillian Michaels' worko...

  Jillian Michael's Body Revolution is a 90 day weight loss program if you do it as design.  The system comes with a Fitness Guide, a Fat Burning Meal Plan, a 7 Day Kickstart Your Metabolism Guide and 15 workouts. Jillian's Body Revolution System is divided into three phases.  There are five workouts included in each phase.  4 workouts are weight/resistance workouts and 1 workout is a cardio workout. The Fitness Guide Breaks down the workouts and gives you a 90 rotation calendar telling you which workout to perform when. This fitness guide is 27 pages. Phase 1 Workout 1 (weights) Workout 2  (weights, resistance cable) Workout 3 (weights, resistance cable) Workout 4 (weights) Cardio 1 Phase 2 Workout 5 (weights, resistance cable) Workout 6 (weights, resistance cable) Workout 7 (weights, resistance cable) Workout 8 (weights, resistance cable) Cardio 2 Phase 3 Workout 9 (weights, resistance cable) Workout 10 (weights, resistance cable) Wo...

Happy December Everyone. Practically every single workout in December will be new for me so I will review them in chunks. Essentially I will be doing Jillian Michael's Body Revolution workouts and Jaana Kunitz's Figure 8 Fitness workouts. As most of the Body Revolution workouts are short, I do have a few add ons I am planning to do.  I have also added my two favorite workouts from The FIRM's ZipTrainer workout system.