Jillian Michaels - Lift and Shred

I am really enjoying both routines. There are a good number of compound moves for muscle gain/weight loss, as well as isolated moves for gains. This is a great dvd for beginners as the moves are taught in such a way that you should not compromise form. You can keep things interesting by progressing weights - besides that there is not much in the way of modifications available. The end stretch could be longer (maybe it's just my body needing that much more to unwind!) But the excersizes themselves are dynamite.

Great DVD for kickstarting getting fit once again, leaves you sweating and pumped. There are also stretches and warm ups before and after you get to the meat of the work out. One thing to note is that the weights they are using are in lbs, not kg, something to bear in mind. i.e 8lbs being rougly 3.6 kg. Overall, amazing presenter and session for beginners and intermediates. Well worth the money.

I have many Jillian Michaels DVD's and this is my absolute favourite. A well put together, well explained, weight lifting workout. It is so enjoyable that I am always suprised when it finishes. I do this on the days that I am not running, and it gets results. Highly recommended.

Great exercise by Jillian, who never disappoints. 4 stars because the audio is in German and I always have to switch audio manually back to English version, which is really annoying because for introductory video it doesnt work at all and for the workouts it works but only with one button on my DVD remote. Not sure how I would do it otherwise and it is not very good to buy such products from the Amazon UK but receive a DVD in German language.

I may be Jillian's biggest fan so I am slightly biased but I happen to love this DVD, there is not a great deal of cardio but with the weight lifting you get your cardio going anyway and work up a sweat. I started with workout 2 as I have been working out with Jillian for a while but this is another awesome workout to go with my collection of her workouts that I have which is about every single one I think.

This is a great workout but it's very different to other jillian michaels dvds. There are no complicated combo moves or jumping around, it's straight weight lifting. For that reason you will need heavier weights than a lot of her programs to see results. It's a great workout and something really different.

Not that good in comparison to some of her other DVDs. The workouts are ok but not particularly exciting or advanced and not very difficult. I don't think it's one of her best and I was also really put off by the way Jillian talks down to the guy on set calling him 'fancy pants' and continually going back to the fact she's not happy about the weights he put out for the class, she can't let it go but as it's her name on the DVD she should have checked before they started filming rather than keep making a big deal out of it in the final cut, she also hits on the female, overall I found it a bit unprofessional and annoying for a fitness dvd, I would prefer the workout to have uplifting and informative info and less of her annoying chatter. Overall it's just ok and maybe good for beginners but it's definitely not one of her best. Didn't break a sweat and didn't feel like I'd had a tough workout afterwards. Try 'Kettlebell Bootcamp' by Angie Miller or 'Strong body, fit body' by Erin O'Brien for much better weights workouts that work you hard.

I love this workout, I had been wanting to do some weights and didn’t know where to start, as I was already familiar with Jillian and her workouts, I knew I’d like it, I just needed some instruction to show me where to start. I love this, it’s not rushed, although workout 2 was a little too fast the first few times, so be careful with your form until you know where you’re going with it. You’re lifting heavy rather than bouncing around with lighter weights. Jillian doesn’t annoy me, I’m just glad she’s put out so many workouts that really work and don’t bore me. I recommend.