Jillian Michaels Six Week Six Pack Review
I recently purchased the Jillian Michaels Six Week Six Pack DVD and I thought I’d share my review. I really like a lot of other Jillian Michaels’ workout videos so I decided I should try this one. I wasted no time trying this one out. I did Level 1 on Wednesday and Level 2 on Thursday, so I could give a full review. (You’re welcome.)
Equipment Needed
All you need is a mat and one hand weight. Level 1 doesn’t use any weights, but you need one medium weight for Level 2. I liked that Six Week Six Pack didn’t require a bunch of extra equipment or additional weights.
The Six Week Six Pack Workout
Like most of Jillian Michaels’ workouts, Six Week Six Pack is a 30-minute circuit with an additional warm up and cool down, featuring a series of high-intensity moves. Most of the moves target more than one muscle group which makes the workout really efficient. Although Six Week Six Pack sounds like it would only be an ab workout, I found that both levels targeted all muscles. In fact, I’d say level 2 focuses more on your legs than anything else. There were tons of lunges. These workouts get your heart rate up immediately, and you don’t take any breaks. Both levels take you through one circuit of moves, and then you repeat the circuit once. I don’t love repeating the same circuit, but it does make it a little easier to master the moves the second time around.
The Results
According to my Body Media band, I burned about 250 calories in just 35 minutes! Not bad for a workout that can be done in your living room. And I was super sore the next day. So that’s a good sign, right? I’ve added this to my workout DVD rotation, but I can’t imagine actually doing this workout every day for six weeks. I’d be bored out of my mind to repeat the same two workouts that many times. That said, I did really like the workout and I think it’s a great one to do when you’re looking for something with ab work but you don’t want to miss the rest of your muscle groups either.
If you get bored of doing the same workout DVDs, I highly recommend turning the volume down and blasting your own music. It makes it much more enjoyable. Once you know the movements, you don’t really need her guiding you through them and it’s more entertaining to listen to your own music!
The latest Tone It Up challenge started last week so I decided to jump into that! I’ve been following Tone It Up since late 2012 so it’s been fun to see how much the program has grown. Read my review of the Tone It Up workout app. You can also read about my very first experience with the Tone It Up 7 Day Slim Down here! I’m thinking about doing a comparison post between BBG and Tone It Up, so let me know if you’d like to see that!
Glad to hear you liked it! I have this one at home but have yet to try it lol my sister loves her workouts 🙂
Haha you should totally try it and let me know what you think!
I am SO glad you put up this review! I’ve had this DVD sitting in my Amazon cart for a while now, but have found it difficult to click “buy”. Now I know! 🙂
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Get it!! 🙂 I highly recommend it!
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I have not managed to stay active this holiday break…GRRRR. Much to my dismay. I plan to hop right back on the wagon on the most cliche day of 2013–Jan 1 🙂 My boyfriend’s mom gave me a crockpot and a book of vegetarian recipes to go along with it, and it’s amazing! So many options 🙂 Enjoy your new loot!
Oh AWESOME!! I’ll be stalking your blog for vegetarian crock pot recipes 😉
I’ve done this workout vid and loved it!! Can’t remember which level tho but this reminds me that I need to check it out again! Omg I have not stayed active at all over the holiday week thanks to this awful illness I acquired… I’m going through barre withdrawals (!!) but am trying to rest up and actually get better since I think last time around I pushed it too much and never did :/ Hopefully I’ll see you at barre sometime soon?!? 😉 Oh ps did you ever see how many cals you burned during that class we did? I’m still curious… And pss love the new blog look!
Aw it’s NO fun being sick!!! I burned about 300 calories in the Barre class! Definitely a great workout AND I felt like it really was toning every single muscle! I bought the groupon for it, so I’m excited to go back soon!
Wow that’s awesome! I had a feeling it was pretty high for the hour, thanks for letting me know! See you soon then 🙂
I have a veggie curry crockpot recipe to share when I get back from my travels! I think its just from cooking light but its good!
ps. Love your new blog!
I haven’t heard of that Jillian dvd – I need it! One of her older ab workouts is on Gaiam tv – but it’s too fast paced for me & they don’t demo the moves before getting into them. 🙁
I’ve been doing this DVD over winter break, too, and REALLY liked it. I had checked it out from the library, but I’ll definitely be purchasing this one too 🙂
ooh if you get a group of vegetarian slow cooker recipes i would love a summary post/recap post! i’m always looking for slow cooker recipes and you have good taste!
I LOVE this DVD! I’ve had it for over a year and still do it at least 2x a week. It is the best ab workout I’ve done and I love that it really works my legs as well.