Jillian Michaels Body Revolution Phase 1 - Review

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 and 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' workouts.  I am not a fan of the coaching style of workouts - when instructor don't do the workout themselves and stop and talks and talks and talks.  Jillian's workouts are that style. 

For the most part though, this style in the Phase 1 workouts did not bother me.  I only got irritated when I felt her interaction with the class participants slowed the flow of the workout.  Jillian would just start giggling at something they did or said and we had to wait for her to stop giggling to move on the next exercise.  Jillian would do about 2 to 3 reps to demonstrate the move and then she would stop and start to walk around.  She did offer form and motivation tips and she also told you why you were performing a particular move.

I like the format of the exercises. Although, I didn't particularly care for the one minute cardio moves in the circuits of the weight workouts. A few of them were okay but a lot of the cardio exercises I felt were useless.  Jillian does state that the cardio in Phase 1 is meant to be light and low impact etc.  Still didn't care for it.


While it didn't bother me but it might bother some, Jillian does curse several times in the workouts. Mostly telling you to move your a$$.

Overall I thought phase 1 was good.  A solid 3 & 1/2 stars



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