80 Day Obsession

I wanted to finally get a routine down so I decided to do this program. I’m 22 and I played soccer for 15 years, but I never really did a standard workout other than playing soccer. I wanted to get toned and get some abs and this program definitely helped with that! I never had abs and definitely was never close to having them so I was so shocked that after 60 days of doing the program, I had them. I didn’t have a 6 pack or anything crazy but you could see the definition. I did not follow the meal plan because it was a bit much for me, but I’m sure my results would have been even better if I did.

You do need a lot of different weights so that’s a bit annoying, but I purchased the adjustable ones even though they were expensive. Some people skip the bands but I would say they’re a must to getting the best results.

In terms of weight loss, I didn’t have any weight loss but that wasn’t a goal of mine. I personally don’t judge a program by a number, I judge it by how I look at the end and I honestly couldn’t have been happier.

The workouts are so long but after finishing the program and doing the follow-up program, I found that it was easy to maintain my results even with shorter and fewer workouts.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

I’ve been a fitness enthusiast for close to 10 years, having done many at home programs and worked with personal trainers in the gym. I’m at Day 54 of 80 Day Obsession and felt compelled to write a review.

As other reviewers pointed out to the cons of this program, I 100% agree. This is not for beginners and even the modifier needs to be modified for those who have injuries, especially knees. You need to have some experience to quickly replace some moves with those that work similar muscle groups so you don’t aggravate whatever injuries you have. The transitions between exercises are quick and often not prompted for proper form until sometimes the second round. Again, you need to know what you’re doing otherwise you will injure yourself. Lastly, the constant chatter and laughter between the cast are extremely distracting. I understand they want to keep it fun and upbeat but this is way overboard. I’m constantly losing count and getting frustrated with the banter. I’m committed to finishing what I started but at this point it’s "80 Day Annoying" for me.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

I love all the beach body workouts, or so I thought...I am an insanity instructor so I do love a workout that pushes me to my limits. However, I think the workouts are too long at approx an hour for each give or take a workout. If we are to believe the other beach body instructors we don’t need to be working out for that long each time to see results, and in my experience that is true. I found the workouts repetitive and there isn’t any music, I got really bored and demotivated to finish the workouts.

If this is your thing then it’s perfect, you will see results but you can get them from a combination of other shorter workouts. Autumn is a fantastic instructor, this wasn’t for me.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

I started with A Little Obsessed, and now I’m at Day 35 and have decided to quit. I have been following everything religiously, and notice no visible results except that my legs maybe look a little more toned - and only to me! No one close to me can tell that I have been working out so hard and eating so well. I weighed myself a week ago and I have GAINED weight since starting. I feel stronger and can do more with weights, but I’m so disappointed with my visible results that I’m going to change programs. We all workout to feel better, but if the visible results don’t follow, it just doesn’t stick.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

This program is amazing if you put in the work. I am on my second round of 80 Day Obsession. I recommend this program as it is a good mix of low intensity and high-intensity workouts. I work muscles I never knew I had! Doing the program again is much different. I can definitely do moves I couldn't do on my first round. Is the second time around hard? Definitely. Am I better at it? Definitely. You will be sore in this program. You won't want to do it some days (because you will be tired and sore). However, I recommend you push through. This program is one of the best. You definitely get in what you put out of it!

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

I can’t believe how many negative people are on here giving poor reviews. It’s a great workout. If you are pushing yourself and increasing your weights and resistance, you should be successful. I am starting peak weak this week, and I’ve seen my body change so much, and I am sorry I didn’t follow the eating plan...my bad, I have no one to blame but myself with that. Bottom line, what you put into it is what you get out. If you don’t see results, it’s you.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

I am on day 70 of my 2nd round of 80 Day Obsession. I am hooked on timed nutrition and the workouts. I have lost over 32 lbs to date. Over 14 inches in my waste alone. My thighs are toning up and my butt is lifting. I know that my body looks better now even though I still have 20 lbs to lose than in it did when I weighed less than currently with lower muscle tone.

My kids and I both eat more vegetables and drink more water than we have ever previously done, so its contagious. I have loved the Fixate recipes for years and now is no exception.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

I was excited for the workouts as I like Autumn’s 30 Day Fix workouts. The exercises are good, but who has super heavy weights at home? I do at home workouts when I can’t get to the gym and only have up to 20 lbs.

Mostly, I find the constant chatter annoying and unnecessary. I wish there was music to override all that chatter about body parts, etc, and also to motivate. Exercise is my fun "me time" and music just makes it more fun. Lastly, it is great that the modifier improves and does the advanced moves, but how about also have a modifier who always does the modifications? Preferably someone in their 40s or 50s with injuries and needs to limit jumps and can’t go as deep in lunges, etc. More diversity in the group in terms of age would be great- maybe 1/2 can be Fitness models in 20s and 30s, but 1-2 in 40s and 50s would be great.

Overall, ok workouts, but I find it too annoying to do more than a few days a week. I am on day 65 so will finish but will move on to other workouts afterwards.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

It's. So. Boring. Do this program if you enjoy 80 days of Autumn's lovely voice screaming "What happened?" "What's going on back there?" "C'mon guys, WAKE UP, you're so quiet!" First off, no one does workout videos to hear comments from the background crew. Secondly, those fools don't even have microphones, we the audience can't hear them when they do speak up (Autumn can't seem to hear them either). Third, for what I can gather, all their conversations revolve around how the moves are hard and they don't want to do them. Very motivating.

Sure, it is interesting to use different types of equipment but constantly transitioning between weights, sliders, and loops wastes time and can be frustrating when you're trying to keep up. Plus, those loops slide and leave bruises! You can get a much better burn from shorter workouts with simpler moves and simpler equipment requirements.

I'm on day 63, so there's no turning back. I'll finish it and NEVER do it again. I see no results and honestly, I see no changes in any of the participants in the videos (but they started out with ideal bodies anyway). I can't wait to get back to my old buddy, Shaun T.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

I enjoyed going through the 80 Day cycle and the different workouts. Yes, they were not 80 unique workouts, as each phase had same movements repeated with different reps. Still, I did look forward to the workouts each day and the challenge of finishing an 80-day program.

I was worried at first because I don't always have an hour to spare in the morning and prefer 45-minute workouts. Well, no worry there, as people said in other reviews there is a lot of downtime. I just did my set and fast-forwarded the video to the next rep. I guess I missed all the inappropriate jokes that way. LOL.

Seriously, life is too short to worry about some laughter in a workout video. I did my reps and moved on. I don't think I'll repeat the 80 days a second time, but overall it was a pretty good experience for me to get back on road to recovery from a stress fracture.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

First off, we were all lied to. We were told that this would be 80 days of 80 different workouts. This is a flat out lie. There are truly only 3 weeks worth of workouts. The rest of the time is just changing the number of reps of those workouts. This was false marketing and a major disappointment. You have to do the exact same moves for a month, before moving onto the next month’s moves.

Second, Autumn is unbearably obnoxious. You would think that a high-profile Beachbody trainer, given the unique opportunity to provide the longest live-format workout program on the Beachbody On Demand platform, would take this task seriously. Quite the contrary: she laughs and jokes with the cast and crew so often that she forgets what move she is on and what rep number she is on in every video. There are so many times throughout the entire program that she is giggling so much about stupid inside jokes with her cast and crew, that she messes up the pacing of the workout and inserts an inappropriate laugh break into the video.

Yet, when you absolutely need a break from a hard move, she moves on so quickly that you have to pause the video to grab appropriate equipment for the next move. Her pacing is nonsensical. There is no rhythm of sets with defined breaks. No, it’s laugh breaks or no breaks at all. It’s a waste of time.

Not to mention that her constant horsing around is utterly distracting from the workout. How can someone perform the hard moves, be motivated to keep going, and feel confident about achieving progress, when Autumn can’t even take her own workout seriously? Let me get this straight. The viewer/customer is NOT in on the inside jokes, nor are they funny when she tries to explain to the camera, nor should we even be joking when there is a hard workout to be done.

Speaking of hard workouts, an unfocused, clownish trainer is NOT the personality type you need when doing compound movements with weights, where an injury is a big risk. There are infinite tips that an experienced trainer can give you regarding form for each move. Well, instead of helping you with form to prevent injury, Autumn is laughing up a storm and asking a crew member to pick up her dumbbell for her. Yeah, really motivating.

Because of her complete inattention to pacing, form, and proper breaks, you feel one of two ways after each workout: 1) overtrained and extremely fatigued, or 2) bored and not having worked up a sweat at all.

After the first month, I had to start muting the audio and playing music instead, to avoid her cringe-worthy, unwelcome jokes. This didn’t mean that I was spared the laughing fit breaks, though; I only was spared having to hear the lame jokes. After the second month, a couple of weeks into phase 3, she managed to penetrate through the muted audio to finally execute the biggest dealbreaker ever: she began joking around and doing inappropriate moves onscreen. I did not pay a lot of money on BOD, Beachbody equipment, Shakeology bundles, and dumbbells to watch my trainer spank the air as if there was a butt in front of her and do other suggestive moves onscreen.

This was the last straw for me. I quit the program at Day 60 and immediately segwayed into the Insanity program. I am so much happier with Shaun T as a trainer. He gives timed breaks, is motivating, talks about form nonstop, and gives tips on how to modify or get more out of your workout. Because of this, I am getting quicker results. He makes Autumn look like a joke.

I absolutely do not recommend 80 Day Obsession for anyone. It is a waste of time, and you can spend 80 days or more doing another workout with a trainer who actually takes exercise seriously. Or you could even go to a gym and do your own workout and take your own self seriously.

I would also like to mention that this program doesn’t even work for weight loss or visible toning. I was in an accountability group on Facebook with hundreds of other people doing 80 Day Obsession. We were not even told how the structure of the program would help with weight loss by the coaches in the group. We were all just told to “trust the process,” over and over and over. Dozens of women who followed the program and nutrition to a T (at 100% compliance, with no cheating, like I did) were frustrated for TWO MONTHS (mind you, this is a 3-month program) by actual weight GAIN and no change in clothing fit. It was then that we were told that we would “shred” in month 3. What a joke. Phase 3 doesn’t even make you break a sweat. I sweated more doing Insanity’s first workout than any 80 Day Obsession video, including the phase 3 videos.

I wasted my time with 80 Day Obsession. I would be at my goal by now if I had just started (and completed) Insanity or my own gym routine instead.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend