This workout starts w/ classic Jillian warmup-arm swing across chest and butt kicks holding the bell. Jillian also does around the body passes and halos. The workout consists of three circuits. Emily B did a thorough breakdown of the exercises but I'll add a list of the exercises in the order I remembered them:

• Bridges w/ one arm floor presses
• 2H swings, and deadlifts into upright rows.
• deadlifts
• H2H swings (squat, swing w/ pass according to JM)
• cleans (or rack according to JM), squat, press
• one arm row from a lunge position
• floor crunch w/ two handed chest press
• very wide stance windmills (starting in rack and pressing up and "corkscrew down" or back to rack position)
• dynamic squats (jump/squat) w/ bell in goblet hold
• TGUs
• snatches
• stretch

All the sets were done 2x thru, no rest, except for the TGUs and snatches which were done only once. I've done Level 1 on ExerciseTV on Cox-On-Demand twice now using a 20lb kbell the first time and a 25lber the second time. I didn't know this w/o had different levels and apparently a tutorial, which I haven’t seen. Anyway, I have been working out consistently the last 6 years. I’ve been doing kettlebells for almost 2 years now. So, I believe I am aware of proper kbell form, which JM was lacking on the few moves she did. For instance, she says not to squat into the swing which I give her credit for pointing out. She says to hinge hips. Unfortunately her form still does not reflect what she says. One of the girls has very wide stance and overarching back. The other uses a DB mod. What Jillian calls squat, swing w/ pass is actually just H2H swing. Where does the squat come from? I’ve no clue but she proceeded to squat, swing, and pass the bell. I can see this confusing a novice into thinking squatting is ok while swinging.

I agree with Emily B that this w/o is for experienced kbellers. With my 20lber I was able to go at my own pace without taking any breaks. But I took breaks when I did it with the 25lber. JM yells while standing glaring/pointing into the camera, "do not stop moving....I want you to be gargling your heart in your throat." Thanks JM, I felt so very motivated...NOT, especially when you only did 3 of those dynamic squats while we did how many? It hurt just watching them snatch the bell. After all the heart pumping moves and ending with snatches, they then immediately sit and start floor stretches. No cool down to bring the heart rate down. There was a lot of up/down moves where they'd suddenly stops and go to the floor, no rests. JM made it very clear that you should be moving the whole 25mins even though she only moved like 7min total, if that much. True to form, she chatted/yelled incessantly which is probably why she could not be bothered to sweat it out w/ the crew although she claimed she was doing form pointers. I totally detest that she hardly participates in this workout and doesn’t actually demonstrate proper form but walks around much of the workout talking and pointing out a bunch of useless stuff. I would give her instruction or lack thereof an F. I give the workout a C+ because if you know not to try to match their speed and you know proper form, you could get a good workout out of it.

Instructor Comments:
Massive disclaimer, I'm not fond of Jillian’s bullying personality/teaching style. I find it very condescending. I’ve tried her first 3 Shreds and Boost Metabolism on ExerciseTV. Even though I felt they were solid workouts, I didn’t want to do them b/c I can only stomach small doses of JM talking to her audience as if they are a bunch of losers who will quit as soon as she lets up (oh wait, I guess that’s the premise of her show, right?).

Jessicavi