I second Aletta Armee's suggestion on using a bench or a chair if you need to modify your squats.

Also, if you run into any "Squat Hold" exercises in other workouts I would recommend the Wall Sit instead of a Squat Hold to make it easier on the knees. Wall Sits are still killers on the thigh muscles, of course. They also help to strengthen the knees.

That's what I enjoyed about JRD MAX. Glad to hear it's continued in the dumbbell workout series. It's easier to push myself to the max when I hear Dan's encouragement in the middle of the workout.

That's good advice on the ego thing, Joe. There's a thing called "Ego Lifting" in the weight lifting community and that leads to injury for sure. Good to see ya working through this program. I'll join everyone else in about 5-6 more weeks (I'm doing a Kettlebell workout program right now instead of JRD stuff--I miss jump rope so much!)

JRD MAX is scheduled like this too. Each month has 5 workouts. You do the 5 workouts throughout the week. Repeat for 4 weeks. Then you move onto the next month's 5 workouts and repeat until you finish the whole program.

At least, that's the way I did JRD MAX and the way I plan to do the Dumbbell + Jump Rope series once I am ready for it

"You don't want dumb bells that are too light or too heavy"

I think that's going to be the hardest part of the program for me (always has been with regards to any workout program I do with weights). Selecting just the right weight for myself. Thanks for letting us know what weights you used as a reference point!

In my case, I think I'll start off with 10-12 lb weights and go up (or down) based on how I feel in the first couple of workouts. 10 lbs dumbbells is also what I would personally recommend men (5 lbs dumbbells for women) to start off with if they are not experienced with weight lifting. Just basing this off of my experience with other programs that combine cardio with dumb bells and where the instructor used 15 lb weights...

Yay new program

I don't know if you guys still keep in contact with Brandon, but I'd like to offer many thanks again to him for giving us all these Yoga Recovery workouts! I was always lazy about doing stretching/mobility/recovery training when I was younger, but now that I'm approaching my 40's (39 right now, will turn 40 in 2024) I find I need to do them more often to stay limber and injury-free!

It’s ok Dan, there’s so many other workouts we can use on the app to fill in the time in the mean time. It’s better to delay it to make it good instead of releasing it in an unfinished state