5 Day Fitness Plan
New Content and Suggestions for this week January 27- February 2, 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 full weekly online calendar here:
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Monday
ABS, BACK, BICEPS
1-27-25
“Pilates for Mid-Back” (30 minutes) Video 643
NEW! Releases at 6:00am EST. Pilates core exercises using a TheraBand for additional shouldes and upper back.
To add an extra 30 minutes, try Video 476 "Back, Biceps, and Abs" for 10 minutes each of back, abdominal, and biceps muscles using dumbbells and bodyweight.
Tuesday
GLUTES, HAMSTRINGS, CALVES
1-28-25
"Sciatic Solutions" (45 mins.) Video 634
Therapeutic routine for sciatica pain and tension to addresses muscular imbalances of hip and core.
If you want an additional 15 minutes, try Video 438 "Mobility: Supination", with isolated and integrated isometrics to strengthen our ability to supinate through the lower body.
Wednesday
CHEST, SHOULDERS, TRICEPS
1-29-25
"Mobility Challenge: Day 3" Video 464 (30 min)
Mobility workout for the foundational pushing movement, incorporating the shoulder, elbow, and core.
If you want another 30 minutes, try Video 142 "Dumbbell Workout for Chest, Triceps, & Abs" for the chest and triceps muscles groups using Dumbbells.
Thursday
QUADS, THIGHS, HIPS
1-30-25
"Knee-Friendly Leg Workout" Video 554 (30 minutes)
Minimize repetitive knee bending and mechanical stress in this lower body strength training workout.
If you want another 30 minutes, try Video 583 "Integrated Hip Isometrics" for the hips and surrounding joints.
Friday
REST / ACTIVE REST
1-31-25
Saturday
CORE
2-01-25
"Osteo-Spine" Video 563 (60 min)
Strengthen the bones of the trunk and spine without having to fully move into the joint positions.
If you want another 10 minutes, try Video 604 "Micro Workout: Abs & Back Calisthenics" with bodyweight abdomional and lower back exercises to improve core strength in a short amount of time.
Sunday
REST DAY
2-02-25
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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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Video 643 | Pilates for Mid-Back (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This creative take on many classic Pilates mat exercises incorporates an elastic band to strengthen muscles that attach to the shoulder and mid-back regions. Target the lats, rhomboids, upper and middle trapezius, deltoids, pecs, and arm muscles while performing roll-ups, crunches, spine twists...
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Video 476 | Back, Biceps, and Abs (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This strength training workout consists of "pulling" motions with 10 minutes of back and 10 minutes of biceps training. To break things up, we will do a 10 minute abdominal section. These muscles are essential to core strength.
Experience modifications and cues for rows, pullover, planks, crun...
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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, debilitat...
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Video 438 | Mobility: Supination (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Every joint can pronate and supinate, as muscles are constantly resisting and collapsing under gravity to give us the power to move. When we cannot pronate efficiently, we cannot absorb enough elastic energy to propel our body to move forward.
In this video, jump start muscles in the lower le...
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Video 464 | Mobility Challenge: Day 3 (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
On Day 3 of the mobility series, we will look to strengthen the muscles involved in pushing things away from our body. The motions include shoulder flexion, shoulder adduction / protraction, and elbow extension.
Within this, we also look at the spine's involvement in the push.We begin by expl...
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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...
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Video 554 | Knee-Friendly Leg Workout (30 mins) with Lauren Eirk
This lower body workout is designed to strengthen the muscles of the hips, thighs, glutes, and lower leg without a lot of repetitive knee bending and mechanical stress. Learn how to feel more comfortable in many lower body exercises such as squats and lunges with this knee-friendly approach.
We...
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Video 583 | Integrated Hip Isometrics (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
In this Isometric workout, we will be utilizing isometric resistance training for the hips while integrating the knee, ankle, foot, and spine as a progressive approach to isolation work. Practice multi-joint isometric positions using one or two legged standing positions followed by several seate...
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Video 563 | Osteo-Spine (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
As we age, it is important to keep our bones strong, for people with more advanced osteoporosis have a higher risk of spinal fractures. For this reason, core training may be tricky, considering many are told by their health care provider not to rotate, bend forwards, or bend backwards.
In this...
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Video 604 | Micro Workout: Abs & Back Calisthenics (11 mins) with Lauren Eirk
Train the core 360 degrees from all planes of motion using bodyweight only. Our power comes from the core, and we need to visit these muscles on a regular basis! Train the rectus abdominis, obliques, transverse abdominis, spinal erectors, plus scapular and hip muscles for a stronger, more stabl...