5 Day Fitness Plan

5 Day Fitness Plan

New Content and Suggestions for this week December 2-8, 2024

*This Weekly plan provides an optional 60 minutes of balanced resistance training each day.
(Choose one or both selections for each day)

See the full weekly online calendar here:
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CORE
12-2-24

"Posture Fix" Video 633 (15 min)
NEW! Releases at 6:00am EST. This bodyweight workout uses the dynamic nature of the stability ball to help improve mobility and raise your overall every level in only 15 minutes time!

To add an extra 30 minutes, try Video 073 "Stability Ball Workout" (45 minutes) to to challenge strength, balance, and muscle reactivity.

Tuesday

CHEST, BACK, SHOUDLERS
12-3-24

"Back and Shoulder Supersets" (45 mins.) Video 256
Resistance training exercises for agonist muscles of the back and shoulders with weights and bands.

If you want an extra 15 minutes, try Video 447 "Dumbbell Chest Express" work upper, middle, and lower chest workout using dumbbells, bodyweight, and a platform / bench.

Wednesday

HIPS, THIGHS
12-4-24

"Sciatic Solutions" Video 634 (45 min)
NEW! Releases at 6:00am EST. This therapeutic routine discusses sciatica and addresses muscular strength and balance of hip and core muscles to alleviate pain and tightness.

If you want another 15 minutes, try Video 471 "Isometric Hip Boost: Rotation" for Isometrics focused on the strength and responsiveness of internal and external hip rotators.

Thursday

ARMS, ABS
12-5-24

"Dumbbell Yoga: Arms and Abs" Video 450 (30 minutes)
Yoga flow that incorporates dumbbells in order to build upper body strength for arms and shoulders.

If you want another 30 minutes, try Video 419 "Arms and Abs" (30 minutes) using dumbbells, a theraband, and bodyweight.

Friday

REST / ACTIVE REST
12-6-24

Saturday

GLUTES, HAMSTRINGS, CALVES
12-7-24

"Posterior Chain Workout" Video 506 (30 min)
Strength training for the erector spinae, latissimus dorsi, gluteus maximus, hamstrings, and calves.

If you want another 30 minutes, try Video 141 "Ultimate Ball Workout" that targets glutes, hamstrings, abdominals, lower back, chest, & shoulders.

Sunday

REST DAY
12-8-24

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This Guide will give you direction in which exercise routines to do each week. Even if you are working on specific FIS TV Workouts that were assigned to you by your MAT Specialist, Personal Trainer, Physician, or Health Professional, the 5-Day Fitness plan can still be your guide! The education you get each week is designed to help you stay focused, inspire you, and assist you in reaching your individual health goals.

This collection of videos is comprised of the workouts that have been chosen from the in "Your Weekly Fitness and Wellness Coaching Guide" email, delivered every Sunday night at 6:00pm EST. The 5-Day plan is comprised of content that I choose for you to ensure that you work each body part sufficiently and have a chance to experience strength, flexibility, restoration, and intensity in a balanced fitness routine of five days of exercise and two days rest. I provide selections of 15, 30,45, and 60 minutes of exercise content each day so that you can chose what works for you. Come to this collection to be lead each week with adequate time allowed for rest and recovery.

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5 Day Fitness Plan
  • Vide 633 | Posture Fix (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Do you ever catch yourself slouching as you pour over your desk computer or drive in your car? This is an example of what happens when postural muscles are weak and we are not thinking about what we are doing. When you practice training the muscles associated with posture in the trunk and spine...

  • Video 073 | Stability Ball Workout (45 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This creative full body workout using a stability ball, which provides the perfect surface to accommodate the curves of the spine. When using the ball, experience greater overall resisted range of motion than is achieved during traditional practices on the floor. The flowing nature of the ball ...

  • Video 256 | Back and Shoulder Supersets (45 Minute workout) with Lauren Eirk

    This resistance training workout will explore the "superset" or long set of exercises using dumbbells and a TheraBand. Supersets can increase the difficulty of the workout and improve muscle gain since you can get more done in the time you have. Performing exercises with similar muscle groups b...

  • Video 447 | Dumbbell Chest Express (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This 15 minute express workout focuses on the muscles that make up the chest / pectoral region and the shoulders. I will be using a step as a weight bench, but the workout can be done from the ground. We will be working through the following exercises:

    dumbbell chest press
    push-ups
    dumbbell ch...

  • Video 634 | Sciatic Solutions (45 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Sciatica is a painful condition characterized by pain that radiates along the path of the sciatic nerve, which branches from your lower back through your hips and buttocks and down each leg. Typically, sciatica affects only one side of the body and can range from a mild ache to intense, debilit...

  • Video 471 | Isometric Hip Boost: Rotation (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This isometric routine is designed to target rotation of the hips

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight routine will help you strengthen muscles that cross the hip to perform internal and external rotation, such as the gluteals, piriformis, superior and inferior gemelli, obturato...

  • Video 450 | Dumbbell Yoga: Arms and Abs (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Experience an alignment-based Yoga practice designed to incorporate multi-joint isometric resistance training. It is often difficult to strengthen the upper body in many poses, so this workout will incorporate dumbbells. The added resistance from the free weights will challenge elbow, wrist, an...

  • Video 419 | Arms and Abs (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Many people want more tone in their arms and abdominals, and resistance training is part of the solution! In this workout, we will begin with some range of motion training for the elbow, shoulder, trunk and spine. Using dumbbells, experience several tricep / elbow extensor exercises with a vari...

  • Video 506 | Posterior Chain Workout (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    The idea of a Posterior Chain refers to the structures at the back of the leg and the spine. These muscles keep us upright and tend to reduce our chance of injury. The main muscles that make up the Posterior Chain are the calf muscles, hamstrings, gluteus maximi, latissimus dorsi and the erecto...

  • Video 141 | Ultimate Ball Workout (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This short 30 minute video packs a big punch! The stabilizing effects of the ball will cause you to have to challenge nearly every muscle group in your body. The ball is inserted into this creative and challenging routine to work the glutes, hips, back, chest, lower back, abs, and shoulders. R...