7 Day Fitness Plan

7 Day Fitness Plan

New Content and Suggestions for this week May 20-26

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

Monday

CORE
5-20-24

"Yoga For Deep Core" Video 561 (60 mins.)
NEW! Releases @ 6:00am EST. Yoga therapy for the pelvic floor, hips, and core coordinated with diaphragmatic breathing and integrated isometrics using a Yoga block.

To add an extra 15 minutes, try Video 505 "Pelvic Floor Incontinence Rx" for a Gentle bodyweight core sequence for improved pelvic floor health to combat urinary incontinence.

Tuesday

GLUTES, THIGHS, HIPS
5-21-24

"ISO-Strong Hips" Video 522 (30 mins.)
Yoga-inspired strength workout to improve hip joint stability using a Yoga block and dumbbells.

To add an extra 30 minutes, try Video 083 "30 Minute Barre Workout for Hips and Thighs" for the outer hips, thighs, lower leg and foot using an elastic band.

Wednesday

FULL BODY
5-22-24

"Full Body Strong Calisthenics" Video 562 (45 mins.)
NEW! Releases at 6:00am EST. This bodyweight routine targets the upper and lower body plus core with higher reps to grow and maintain muscle.

If you want two add 15 minutes, try Video 353 "Isometric Hip & Core Boost Lateral Flexion" to activate lateral flexors of the hip and spine.

Thursday

CHEST, SHOULDERS, ARMS
5-23-24

"Ball, Chest, and Triceps" Video 469 (30 mins.)
Resistance training workout for chest and triceps muscles using dumbbells and a stability ball.

If you want an extra 30 minutes, add Video 142 "Dumbbell Workout for Chest, Triceps, & Abs" for strength and hypertrophy.

Friday

HAMSTRINGS, GLUTES, CALVES
5-24-24

Pre-Recorded LIVE Event "Compound Leg Workout with Dumbbells" (60 mins.)
Exercises with many joint actions to strengthen the lower body using bodyweight and dumbbells.

If you want an extra 15 minutes, try Video 498 "Isometric Knee Flexion Boost" for Isometric exercise routine for the strength and responsiveness of the muscles that flex the knee.

Saturday

BACK, SHOULDERS
5-25-24

Video 549 "Upper Back Mobility" (30 mins)
for Upper back, shoulders, and neck targeted exercises using a TheraBand and a Yoga strap as resistance.

If you want another 30 minutes, try Video 333 "Pilates Back and Shoulders" Pilates workout targeting the back and shoulders for core strength using a magic circle and a band.

Sunday

REST DAY
5-26-24

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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 7-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 in "Your Weekly Fitness and Wellness Coaching Guide" email, delivered every Sunday night at 6:00pm EST. The 7-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. 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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7 Day Fitness Plan
  • Video 561 | Yoga for Deep Core (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    In this Yoga practice, we will focus on the lumbo pelvic-hip complex, which includes deeper muscles such as your internal obliques, transversus abdominis, multifidus, rotatores, semispinalis, quadratus lumborum, psoas, and superficial muscles, such as your rectus abdominis.

    Using diaphragmatic...

  • Video 505 | Pelvic Floor Incontinence Rx (15 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    Stress urinary incontinence is the involuntary leakage of urine that occurs with increases in intra abdominal pressure (e.g., with exertion, effort, sneezing, or coughing) due to urethral sphincter and/or pelvic floor muscle weakness. This can affect anyone at any age, particularly those who part...

  • Video 522 | ISO-Strong Hips (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    In this Yoga-inspired strength training routine, we will be practicing and maintaining several multi-joint positions while under the influence of external resistance challenges.

    The dumbbells will be used strategically to challenge many postural muscles as they work to counter the joint action....

  • Video 083 | 30 Minute Barre Workout for Hips and Thighs with Lauren Eirk

    Lauren takes you through a quick 30 minute (mostly) standing workout using an elastic band to provide resistance to the hips and thighs while performing motions of hip extension, flexion, abduction, and rotation using the core muscles to maintain the positions. Work on muscular symmetry and bala...

  • Video 353 | Isometric Hip & Core Boost Lateral Flexion (15 Min) with Lauren Eirk

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute isometric routine will help you strengthen core muscles and help give you improved spinal stability in sidelying bodyweight exercises for the hip and spinal joints. In the spine, this is lateral flexion. In the hips, this is abduction. No equipment nee...

  • Video 469 | Ball, Chest, and Triceps (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    In this workout, notice how the stability ball transforms so many exercises that we have done so many times. The ball adds an element of stability training and fun so that we can add a freshness to our exercise routine. You will need some light and heavy dumbbells for this workout, which will b...

  • Video 142 | Dumbbell Workout for Chest, Triceps, & Abs (30 Min) with Lauren Eirk

    This routine will help you strengthen chest, triceps, and abdominal muscles. Chest muscles bring the arms across the body, support the shoulder, and assist in breathing. Triceps muscles work to extend the elbows and shoulder joints. The triceps make up approximately 2/3rds of the muscles in you...

  • Live Event | Compound Leg Workout with Dumbbells (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Compound lifts are any strengthening exercise where you’re using more than one muscle group at the same time. These exercises are efficient for building strength, since they work several areas at once. In this way you can get great strength benefits in a shorter period of time. The lower body e...

  • Video 498 | Isometric Knee Flexion Boost (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you to strengthen knee flexor muscles using the resistance coming from bodyweight and a sponge ball. Weakness in these areas can cause loss of balance and knee pain, making it more difficult to walk efficiently, operate the fo...

  • Video 549 | Upper Back Mobility (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This mobility workout features isometric and concentric muscle contractions using a Yoga Strap and Theraband respectively. Many times, we feel tight and stiff due to muscle weakness. The body gets comfortable in the ranges and motions we experience all day, and muscles weaken everywhere else. ...

  • Video 333 | Pilates Back and Shoulders (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Pilates is known for classic core strengthening floorwork targeting the abdominals, back, hips, and shoulders. In this workout, we will work to specifically target shoulder muscles using a Pilates ring (or magic circle) and a TheraBand. Improve your posture as you combine shoulder movements wit...