5 Day Fitness Plan

5 Day Fitness Plan

New Content and Suggestions for August 25-31, 2025

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

See the Online calendar here:
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Monday

LEGS, GLUTES
8-25-25

New! @6:00am EST “Bone Boost EXP: Lower” (15 minutes) Video 697
Build strong hips, glutes, and legs with dumbbells to support daily movement.

To add an extra 45 minutes, try Video 110 "Stronger Legs Dumbbell Workout" with 45 minutes of some of the best lower body exercises using dumbbells for stronger legs.

Tuesday

BICEPS, TRICEPS, SHOULDERS
8-26-25

Pre-Recorded "Shoulder and Arm Supersets" (60 minutes)
Strength training workout alternating shoulder, biceps, and triceps exercises with dumbbells.

If you want an additional 15 minutes, try Video 389 "Arms Express" with complimentary biceps and triceps supersets using dumbbells.

Wednesday

CORE
8-27-25

"Core Pilates Express” (15 minutes) Video 693
Bodyweight Pilates matwork with a variety of joint positions for abs, back, shoulders and core.

If you want another 45 minutes, try Video 223 "Pilates Fusion" for Pilates core training fused with lower body exercises and Yoga isometric sequences with no equipment.

Thursday

CHEST, BACK, SHOULDERS
8-28-25

New! @6:00am EST “Bone Boost EXP: Upper” (15 minutes) Video 698
Strengthen arms, shoulders, and chest to improve posture and protect the spine.

If you want another 45 minutes, try Video 507 "FIS Chest, Shoulders, & Back" for combinations of back, shoulder, and chest with dumbbells and a Theraband for muscle development.

Friday

REST / ACTIVE REST
8-29-25

Saturday

HIPS, LOWER LEG
8-30-25

“Glute Medius Focus” (15 minutes) Video 696
Strengthen the outer hips for pelvic and knee stability using a dumbbell, yoga block & thigh band.

If you want another 45 minutes, try Video 129 "Standing Yogalates Circle Workout" to strengthen the total body with the Pilates Magic Circle as resistance in this standing yoga workout

Sunday

REST DAY
8-31-25

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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
  • Video 627 | Bone Boost Express: Lower (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This strength training workout is designed to give your skeletal system a boost, with several of the most comprehensive weight bearing exercises for the lower body. Skills such as stand-to-sit, bending over and picking up weight, and working with the feet will be covered in this workout.

    A ch...

  • Video 110 | Stronger Legs Dumbbell Workout (45 Minute) with Lauren Eirk

    Some of the best free weight exercises are for the lower body. Experience a muscle activating, thorough warm-up to visit your range of motion followed by many variations of the squat, lunge, dead-lift, and bridge. This sequence uses unilateral and bilateral variations with creative positioning ...

  • Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Shoulder and Arm Supersets

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

    In this workout, we will practice six supersets. Each will incor...

  • Video 389 | Arms Express (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    If you are pressed for time superset training will allow you to get more done a short period of time. This is because complementary muscle groups are worked back to back, reducing your rest between exercises.
    This Express strength training routine targets the muscles that flex and extend the el...

  • Video 693 | Core Pilates Express (15 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    This Express Core workout packs a punch in a short amount of time! This workout requires no equipment, leveraging your bodyweight for resistance.

    We begin with roll-downs and a warm up, then go right into the abdominal series of Pilates. Glute bridges and hip series exercises follow, finishi...

  • Video 223 | Pilates Fusion (45 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk

    This Pilates Fusion workout begins with a standing lower body sequence to warm up the lower body, followed by some creative barre work to specifically target various hip muscles. Next we move to the floor for abdominal and back exercises common to Pilates. Yoga flows are inserted into the worko...

  • Video 698 | Bone Boost Express: Upper (15 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    In this express workout, we will explore some multi-joint compound exercises to load the upper extremities and core. Using a variety of motions and positions, the goal of this short workout is to boost bone growth by placing stress against the associated muscles that attach to them. By placing...

  • Video 507 | FIS Chest, Shoulders, & Back (45 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    In this strength training workout, experience five supersets of complementary exercises using dumbbells, a Theraband, and a chair for added resistance. Each superset will be performed twice, with the focus being placed on proper form and muscular engagement.

    Each combination will combine a sh...

  • Video 696 | Glute Medius Focus (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Gluteus medius is a large fan-shaped muscle located in the outer, posterior hip, against the pelvis and femur. It produces abduction (moving out to the side) and rotation. The gluteus medius muscle stabilizes the pelvis while standing or walking. Weakness in this area affects the hip, knee, an...

  • Video 129 | Standing Yogalates Circle Workout (45 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This Yoga Routine combines the resistance from the Pilates Magic Circle with several strengthening poses from a standing position to strengthen the shoulders, feet, hips, trunk, and spine. Enjoy a stronger core without ever having to lay on the floor. Many lower body Yoga poses will feel diffe...