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Chinebo, don't feel like you HAVE to move onto Week 3 just because you finished Week 2. Repeat Week 2, feel more comfortable doing the 90 second jogs. There's nothing wrong with that. Next, think of it differently. True, 3 minutes IS a lifetime...when you're jogging. BUT don't think of it that way. Find that really hyper or motivational song and just let yourself get lost in the lyrics while jogging. When you think about it, 3 minutes is about the length of a song. How fast do our favorite songs go by? What I learned from this program is that by the time you move to the next week, if you listened to your body before progressing, you ARE ready (even if your brain says otherwise). When I say listen to your body, really listen. How was Week 2 for you? You mentioned it was a real struggle. That's fine, I struggled so much in Week 1 I had to repeat it. So, repeat Week 2 until you feel more comfortable doing 90 seconds of jogging. If you have to stay at Week 2 for 3, 4 or 5 weeks, so what? At least you're still making progress which is better than giving up. Nobody will know what week you're on, they'll only see you out there working on yourself, getting yourself in shape, and YOU will feel so much better regardless of what you do (except QUIT) I'm not far behind you, since I just finished Day 2 of Week 3. Here's my progress so far. When I started Week 1, I thought NO WAY am I going to jog for 90 seconds. I remember W1 D1 was brutal and I barely finished! But I pushed myself through it. By W1 D3 I was making it through with a little less difficulty, but not as "easy" as I would like. So, I repeated Week 1 again. Then I moved onto week 2. As expected, it was a little tough, but not impossible. I wasn't completely comfortable at the 90 second intervals by the end of Week 2, but it wasn't killing me. Then I figured just for the HECK of it I'd try Week 3. What's the worst that happens? I can't do the 3 minute jog and I walk it. Big deal... Again, to my surprise, I did W3 D1. It was HARD but I DID IT!!! Then...I had a week off due to really bad weather and I refused to go to the gym (spoiled by the outdoors now). So I told myself congratulations on a belated holiday gift of not having to work out for a week (and I didn't, except for some weight training one day). LOL This past Saturday I went out for the first time in a week. It felt SO GOOD to be back out there waking/jogging. I wasn't sure what to do, try W3 D1 again, go back to Week 2...I told myself I did ONE day of Week 3, I'm NOT going backwards. Again, what's the worst that happens? Halfway through that 3 minute interval I need to start walking? So what... I did all of Wk3 D1 without much difficulty, actually it was not as hard as I thought, probably due to that week rest. Then today, I went out and did Wk3 D2 again. OMG what happened!!!??? LOL It was hard, and I had to keep telling myself keep jogging, keep jogging. My calves were burning and I was feeling it. But, I didn't want to quit and I made it ALL the way through D2 of Week 3 AND I even tacked on an extra 90 seconds of jogging during the 5 minute cool down because I was on the far end of the track and knew I had another 1/2 mile to go to reach my car and by that time I just wanted to get to my car as fast as I could so I thought if I jog I'll get there faster.... LOL Warped thinking, I know... After finishing a few weeks of the program, here's the INTERESTING part I noticed. Each of the times I did the intervals, I was "good" through the first part that was the same as the previous week. For example, when I did the 3 minute jogging intervals, the first half (90 seconds) flew by and felt pretty easy. In other words, it didn't even feel like 90 seconds and I wasn't struggling. The second half of a 3 minute interval, now that's another story! Like I said in another post (Thank's Shannon for the mention!) believe in yourself! There's nothing holding you back from scaling it down if you start a Week and realize you can't jog for the full 90 seconds, or 3 minutes or 5 minutes. Just try it and see what happens. That's the beauty of this program, it's not like you're solidly committed to doing an interval if you try and just can't. Just stop jogging and start walking until the next jogging interval comes around. If you can't jog, then you know you can take it back a week and next time, try again. Take it from me, I NEVER thought I'd be out jogging, EVER..But....here I am doing it and enjoying myself at the same time! "What would you attempt to do if you knew you COULD NOT fail?" - Robert H. Schuller