Tag: Elite Workout Programs

  • Women's Workout: Cycle 13, Week 6

    Women's Workout: Cycle 13, Week 6

    These workouts are designed by Breaking Muscle founder Mindith Rahmat. Mindith is an RYT 500 Certified Yoga Therapist, certified CrossFit coach, and long time fitness enthusiast with extensive experience in Russian kettlebells and bodyweight exercise.

     

    Cycle thirteen of the Women’s Workout series is an eight-week, two-part, progressive plan to develop fundamental skills and strength to master strict pull ups and cultivate a more flexible and mobile body.

     

     

    Equipment needed: pull up bar, ketllebells, barbell, yoga mat.

     

    Week 6, Day 1

     

    Part 1

    Pull Ups Max Effort

    45 Negatives

     

    5×5 Clean and Press

    5×5 Walk Out to Strict Push Up

     

    10×10 Kettlebell Swings

     

    Part 2

    Wide Legged Forward Bend with Twist to Right and Left 1 Minutes each Side

    Center Split 2 minutes

    Single Pigeon on Right Side 2 Minutes

    King Pigeon on the Right Side 1 Minute

    Single Pigeon on Left Side 2 Minutes

    King Pigeon on the Left Side 1 Minute

     

    Week 6, Day 2

     

    Part 1

    5x 25 Body Weight Squats

    5×10 Glute Bridges

     

    3×10 Kettlebell Bicep to Tricep

    3×10 Kettlebell Rack Lunges

     

     

    3x RKC Plank 30 Seconds

    3×15 Leg Raises

     

    Part 2

    Frog Pose

    Child’s Pose

    Cat/Cow

    Gate Pose Right Side

    Cat/Cow

    Gate Pose Left Side

    Child’s Pose with Shoulder Release

     

    Week 6, Day 3

     

    Part 1

    50 Jumping Pull Ups

    5x 20 Glute Bridges

    5x 10 Kettlebell Swing – Squat – Press

     

    Tabata

    Wide Legged Seated Kettlebell Press

    Abdominal Bicycles

     

    Part 2

    Crescent Lunge

    Hamstring Stretch

    Downward Dog

    Yogi Squat

    Downward Dog

    Lizard Pose

    Quad Release

  • Mommy Workout: Third Trimester, Cycle 2 – Week 36

    Mommy Workout: Third Trimester, Cycle 2 – Week 36

    Week 36, Day 1

    A.

    4 Rounds:
    Glute Bridge w/Leg Raised x 10 R/L
    Side Plank x 30 sec R/L
    Max attempt Push Ups
    Max attempt Pull Ups

     

    B.

    500m Run

     

     

    C.

    Double Rack Carry 50m x 2

     

    Week 36, Day 2

    A.

    Rest as needed between exercises:
    KB Snatch
    KB Thruster
    KB One Arm Row R/L
    Goblet Squat

     

    B.
    500m Run

     

    Week 36, Day 3

    Deep Hip Opening Yin Practice

     

    B. 1 mile hike/jog

     

    About the Workouts

    This cycle of pregnancy workouts is designed for women who have previous experience with strength training and yoga and want to integrate a range of exercise modalities. The third trimester workouts focus on regular movement throughout the day, long walks or hikes once a week, and easily modified bodyweight workouts.

     

    Although pregnancy isn’t the time to be focused on setting PRs or progressive weight training, there’s no reason you can’t track your progress. I found that keeping a fitness journal during pregnancy kept me motivated and helped me regain my fitness level faster after delivery.

     

    I designed these workouts with active moms in mind who are at an intermediate fitness level. If you have been training with weights before pregnancy, there’s no reason you can’t continue to do so, provided you have your doctor’s approval. Enjoy the workouts.

  • 12 Weeks of Coaching for Your First Dash-Distance Triathlon

    12 Weeks of Coaching for Your First Dash-Distance Triathlon

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Mischele Stevens has been serving to freshmen fulfill their dream of finishing a triathlon for the previous decade. A former ironman athlete, Mischele has coached athletes to the World Championship degree at each the 70.3 and full Ironman distance. Along with her work with elite athletes, Mischele additionally coaches in a community-based program that helps a whole bunch of individuals of all ranges full triathlons every year. 

     

    This programming has been designed for the newbie to coach for a dash distance triathlon, however anybody can use it.

     

    There will likely be exercises that you’ll be requested you to document the time or distance. Do it! Recording your coaching periods lets you affirm that you’re progressing. All exercises are anticipated to be executed with a tough/quick effort until said in any other case. This implies you’ll not take pleasure in it and can want desperately for it to be over. That is how we get fitter and quicker. Plus, in case you are in a time crunch you will get a exercise in with out taking away from life.

     

    You’ll plug the coaching week into your life and full every exercise in accordance with your schedule. This lets you swim when you will get to the pool or bike when you could have extra time, not as a result of I stated it’s a must to do it on a sure day.

     

    Please don’t do the identical sport two days in a row (instance: swim on Monday and Tuesday). You are able to do a couple of exercise in a day, however want not less than three hours between for restoration. There are six exercises in every week. Don’t make up any you miss from earlier weeks. You could take one complete time off in every week to relaxation and get better.

    Exercises for Week 1

     

    Survived week one and prepared for extra?

    It’s regular to query your coaching at instances. Am I doing sufficient coaching? Do I must do extra? Am I working exhausting sufficient?

     

    Sure, you might be doing sufficient, and including extra is not going to get you the outcomes you want. You are able to do an excessive amount of and over prepare, which ends up in harm and illness. However extra as regards to overtraining in one other week.

     

    Questions on working exhausting sufficient are largely answered throughout coaching. Are you gasping for breath? Are you cursing me? Are you combating to complete the set? If sure, than you might be working exhausting sufficient! The good half about working at exhausting or all out efforts is that as you grow to be fitter you might be nonetheless pushing at a tough effort simply at your new degree of health.

     

    Science reveals that doing lengthy gradual efforts in exercises is not going to make you fitter.  That "LSD" effort of 70% will web you 70% health. Who needs that? That’s why I’ll have you ever repeat some exercises again and again. You will notice the distinction. However, should you prefer to learn lengthy, boring science research:

     

    Six periods of dash interval coaching will increase muscle oxidative potential and cycle endurance capability in people.

     

    Click on on the quantity under that corresponds to the week of coaching you're in.

     

  • A Properly-Rounded Health Plan for MMA and BJJ Athletes

    A Properly-Rounded Health Plan for MMA and BJJ Athletes

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Mike Marcinek is the energy and conditioning coach at Scranton MMA and is the proprietor of NEPA Match Membership/Pushed Athletics. Along with his bachelor's diploma in diet and dietetics and his grasp's diploma in kinesiology, Mike holds quite a few certifications together with diet, motion evaluation, kettlebells, and weightlifting.

     

    This twelve-week cycle of MMA/BJJ exercises is designed to construct up your energy and endurance to enrich the mat and ring time you're placing in.

     

    Precede every session with motion prep, which stays the identical all through the twelve-week cycle.

    Week 1

    Day 1

    A1. Barbell entrance squat 3×3
    A1. Double KB clear and press (solely clear on first rep) 3x 3

     

    B1. Weighted chin 6-8 reps
    B2. Suspended pushup 6-8 reps
    B3. Single leg deadlift 5 reps

    Carry out circuit 3 x

     

    C1. KB rack carries alternated with farmer carries 4x, so far as you’ll be able to go in good kind

     

    Day 2

    A1. Broad leap 3x 1 – full restoration
    B1. Double KB clear and jerk 2-4-6 3x
    C1. 1-arm KB swing 5+5 every on high of every minute – 10 minutes complete

     

    Day 3

    A1 Barbell entrance squat 3×3 identical weight as day 1
    A2. Double KB clear and press (solely clear on first rep) 3×3 identical bells

     

    B1. Weighted chin 6-8 reps
    B2. Suspended push ups 6-8 reps
    B3. SLDL 5 reps

    Carry out circuit 4X

     

    C1. KB rack carries alternated with farmer carries 4x, so far as you’ll be able to go in good kind

     

    Click on on the quantity beneath that corresponds to the week of coaching you're in.

     

  • Mommy and Me Exercises for Mothers On the Go

    Mommy and Me Exercises for Mothers On the Go

    These exercises are designed for mothers with infants and toddlers at dwelling. They’re useful, efficient coaching routines you are able to do with little ones operating round. A few of the exercises additionally embrace actions you are able to do along with your youngsters to get them concerned.

     

    The exercises are 4 days per week. You are able to do them on consecutive days or between your days on the fitness center. It’s also possible to use them as supplemental exercises in your main coaching. For instance, in case your common focus is operating, the strength-endurance exercise could be good to do earlier than your run. For the reason that focus of this system is normal bodily health, it may be utilized by mothers of all health ranges.

     

    Every day has a special focus. Day one is conditioning day, day two is a brief interval exercise, and day three is dedicated to yoga. The ultimate day of the week is concentrated on a selected ability you’re engaged on.

     

    Though you possibly can soar in any time you want, I like to recommend ranging from the start. Over the six-week interval, you’ll repeat sure exercises at a higher depth or quantity and concentrate on bettering your pull ups, operating, and core power.

    Week One, Day One: Conditioning

    Stroller Run/Stroll – 45 minutes

     

    Stroll 5 minutes to heat up. Then stroll 3 minutes, run 5 minutes for 40 minutes or 5 complete rounds. 

     

    Day Two – HIT

    You are able to do these one after the opposite or at completely different occasions of the day.

     

    A. 20 minutes, as many units as doable, 1 minute relaxation between units:

    • Goblet/Child Squat x 15
    • Weighted Lunges x 20 (10 per aspect)
    • Weighted Cossack Squat x 20 (10 per aspect)
    • Weighted Cut up Squat x 10 (5 per aspect)

     

    B. 20 minutes, as many units as doable, 1 minute relaxation between units

    • Push Up x 10
    • Plank Maintain x 20 seconds
    • Aspect Plank x 20 seconds
    • Bridge x 15

     

    Day Three – Yoga

    My three-year-old daughter loves doing this collection with me. I emphasize the opening actions of stretching tall throughout tree pose, aspect angle, and triangle pose, in addition to the curling up actions of ahead fold and little one’s pose.

     

    Run by way of the next collection 3-5 occasions. Maintain every pose for 3 deep breaths:

    • Mountain Pose
    • Tree Pose
    • Mountain Pose
    • Ahead Fold
    • Triangle
    • Prolonged Triangle
    • Aspect Angle
    • Triangle
    • Warrior 2
    • Warrior 1
    • Tree Pose
    • Chair Pose
    • Ahead Fold

     

    Finish with 3 minutes in Youngster’s Pose and a 5-10 minute Savasana.

     

    Day 4 – Ability Follow

    Follow a ability of your alternative (handstands, pistols, pull ups, or different train you’re engaged on) for twenty minutes in the present day.

     

    Click on on the quantity beneath that corresponds to the week of coaching you're in.

     

  • Frogman Workouts: Cycle 7, Week 12

    Frogman Workouts: Cycle 7, Week 12

    These workouts are designed by All-American swimmer and world record holder Hannah Caldas. She swims 4,000 meters per day, 2 hours per day, 6 days a week. Hannah has designed these workouts to increase your overall strength and conditioning while also improving your swim technique and speed in the water.

     

    Week 12, Day 1

    7 rounds

    • 30 sec plank hold
    • 25m swim
    • 30 sec hollow hold
    • 25m kick

     

     

    Week 12, Day 2

    400m/500yd swim with fins for time

  • Transfer Fantastically: Intermediate Dance Abilities and Barre Approach

    Transfer Fantastically: Intermediate Dance Abilities and Barre Approach

    The Inventive Motion exercise is a compilation of dance motion, bellydance, barre, pilates, kettlebells, and yoga. This exercise will transfer by varied sorts of programming for ranges newbie to superior. The aim of the exercise is to realize a technical basis of dance motion, enhance fluidity and adaptability, enhance total physique power, and discover your physique by varied mediums.

     

    This cycle of the artistic motion exercise collection helps you construct a basis for intermediate dance method and useful health abilities. It’s an intermediate barre exercise that fuses ballet, dance motion, body weight train, and yoga into one enjoyable and provoking class.

     

    Inventive Motion will run two days per week. Be happy to choose any two days that work on your schedule. Have enjoyable with the exercise and discover your artist in your athletic journey.

     

     

    Week 1, Day 1

    Heat Up:
    Tadasana
    March 3 minutes

     

    Higher Physique:
    Downward Canine to Upward Canine 10x
    Strict Push Ups 20x

     

    Stretch:

    Arms Clasp Behind again 20 sec

     

    Decrease Physique:
    Suhaila Squat, Elbows on Legs 1 min
    Suhaila Squat, Arms in 2nd place 1 min
    Suhaila Squat, Arms in fifth place 1min

     

    Stretch:
    Determine 4 R leg on the Barre 20 secs
    Determine 4 L leg on the Barre 20 secs

     

    Glute Work:
    Desk Prime 1 Inch Lifts R Leg 25x
    Desk Prime Hydrant R Leg 25x
    Desk Prime Arabesque R Leg 15x
    Desk Prime 1 Inch Lifts R Leg 25x
    Desk Prime Hydrant R Leg 25x
    Desk Prime Arabesque R Leg 15x
    Cat Stretch, Hips to the appropriate R
    Cat Stretch, Hips to the appropriate R

     

    Core:
    Bicycles with Straight Legs 25X
    Boat Pose maintain 20 sec 3x

    Again Work:
    Cobra 3x
    Upward Canine 20 secs

    Stretch:
    Pigeon R leg 20 secs
    Straddle Stretch 20 secs
    Pigeon L leg 20 secs
    Straddle Stretch 20 secs

     

    Week 1, Day 2

    Heat Up:
    Tadasana
    March & Twist 3 min

     

     

    Higher Physique:
    Elbow Plank to Straight Arm Plank 10x
    Strict Push Ups 20x
    Elbow Plank Maintain 20 secs

     

    Stretch:
    Downward Canine 20 secs

     

    Decrease Physique:
    Slim V Alternating Releve 1 min
    Slim V Alternating Releve 1 min
    Repeat 2 x

     

    Suhaila Squat, Elbows on Legs 30 secs
    Suhaila Squat, Arms in 2nd place 30 secs
    Suhaila Squat, Arms in fifth place 30 secs

     

    Stretch
    Broad Leg Ahead Fold, Middle 30 secs
    Broad Leg Ahead Fold, R Leg 30 secs
    Broad Leg Ahead Fold, L Leg 30 secs

     

    Glute Work:
    Flat Again Collection on the Barre 1 inch carry R Leg 25x
    Flat Again Collection on the Barre 1 Inch Lifts, 2 Up 2 Down R Leg 25x
    Flat Again Collection on the Barre 1 Inch Lifts, 4 Up $ Down R Leg 25x

     

    Flat Again Collection on the Barre 1 inch carry L Leg 25x
    Flat Again Collection on the Barre 1 Inch Lifts, 2 Up 2 Down L Leg 25x
    Flat Again Collection on the Barre 1 Inch Lifts, 4 Up $ Down L Leg 25x

     

    Stretch:
    Determine 4 At The Barre R leg 20 secs
    Determine 4 At The Barre L leg 20 secs
    Ahead Fold, arms Below Ft 20 secs

     

    Core:
    Thigh Driving 10 units 5x
    Plank Maintain 20 secs 3x

     

    Again Work
    Snake R leg 20 secs
    Upward Canine 20 secs
    Snake L leg 20 secs
    Upward Canine 20 secs

     

    Stretch
    Crescent Lunge R Leg 20 secs
    Runners Lunge R Leg 20 secs
    Dragon R Leg 20 secs
    Hamstring stretch R Leg 20 secs
    Downward Canine
    Crescent Lunge L Leg 20 secs
    Runners Lunge L Leg 20 secs
    Dragon L Leg 20 secs
    Hamstring stretch L Leg 20 secs

     

    Click on on the quantity under that corresponds to the week of coaching you're in.

     

  • Power and Pace, Frogman-Type: A 12-Week Problem

    Power and Pace, Frogman-Type: A 12-Week Problem

    These exercises are designed by All-American swimmer and world document holder Hannah Caldas. She swims 4,000 meters per day, 2 hours per day, 6 days per week.

     

    Hannah has designed this exercise program to extend your general energy and conditioning whereas additionally enhancing your swim method and velocity within the water.

    Week 1, Day 1

    10x 1 arm Kettlebell Clear and Press (5 per arm 35/25)

    250m Pull with paddles and buoy

    10x 1-arm Kettlebell Snatches (as above)

     

    Week 1, Day 2

    Maintain 3 minute Plank

    Swim 50m

    Relaxation 10 seconds whereas holding breath

    Swim 100m

    Relaxation 10 seconds whereas holding breath

    Swim 50m

     

    Week 1, Day 1

    10x 1 arm Kettlebell Clear and Press (5 per arm 35/25)

    250m Pull with paddles and buoy

    10x 1-arm Kettlebell Snatches (as above)

     

    Week 1, Day 2

    Maintain 3 minute Plank

    Swim 50m

    Relaxation 10 seconds whereas holding breath

    Swim 100m

    Relaxation 10 seconds whereas holding breath

    Swim 50m

     

    Click on on the quantity under that corresponds to the week of coaching you're in.

     

  • BJJ & MMA Workouts: Cycle 5 (Weight Cutting) – Week 1

    BJJ & MMA Workouts: Cycle 5 (Weight Cutting) – Week 1

    Training for combat sports like MMA, BJJ, judo, wrestling, kickboxing, and boxing requires a great breadth of attributes. Unlike a powerlifter or a marathon runner, focusing on strength or endurance alone won’t cut it. You need to develop it all.

     

    There are three workouts per week. Plan on a taking at least one rest day between each workout.

     

     

    Week 1, Day 1

    Dynamic warm up

    Roadwork, treadmill, or elliptical 60 minutes at 150 bpm

    Foam roll

    Stretch

    Monitor weight: Keep on track for weigh in

     

    Week 1, Day 2

    Dynamic warm up

    Squat 3 x 7 with 10 rep max

    Pull up 3 x 5 with 7 rep max

    Overhead press 3 x 5 with 7 rep max

    Roadwork, treadmill, or elliptical 60 minutes at 150 bpm

    Foam roll

    Stretch

    Monitor weight: Keep on track for weigh in

     

    Week 1, Day 3

    Dynamic warm up

    Roadwork, treadmill or elliptical 60 minutes at 150 bpm

    Foam roll

    Stretch

    Monitor weight: Keep on track for weigh in

     

    More information on the BJJ/MMA Training Program

     

    During each phase of this year long MMA/BJJ conditioning program, we will cover each facet of the major attributes needed by combat athletes, including strength, flexibility, and endurance. The final phase is a month-long weight cutting program to help prepare for a fight or match.

     

    This is a workout preparation schedule for the month before a fight when a fighter needs to make weight. The program focuses on cardio to help keep conditioning strong and to reduce weight if needed. More cardio on off days at a heart rate of 130-150 beats per minute is acceptable. The final week is a light week. The fighter's focus should be finishing up any technical and tactical preparation and cutting weight if necessary.

     

    Once the program is done, you will have achieved your foundational physical needs, which you can maintain while focusing on your skill from that point onward. You will also be able to prep for competition successfully, including getting down to the weight you need to be at.

     

    If you want to learn more about this program, you can read the full explanation here.

  • Triathlon Coaching 102: Constructing Elite Endurance

    Triathlon Coaching 102: Constructing Elite Endurance

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Mischele Stevens has been serving to newbies fulfill their dream of finishing a triathlon for the previous decade. A former ironman athlete, Mischele has coached athletes to the World Championship stage at each the 70.3 and full Ironman distance. Along with her work with elite athletes, Mischele additionally coaches in a community-based program that helps a whole bunch of individuals of all ranges full triathlons annually. 

     

    This programming has been designed for the newbie to coach for a dash distance triathlon, however anybody can use it.

     

    There might be exercises you may be requested to report your time or distance on. Do it! Recording your coaching classes lets you affirm that you’re progressing. All exercises are anticipated to be achieved with a tough/quick effort until said in any other case. This implies you’ll not get pleasure from it and can want desperately for it to be over. That is how we get fitter and sooner. Plus, in case you are in a time crunch you may get a exercise in with out taking away from life.

     

    You’ll plug the coaching week into your life and full every exercise in response to your schedule. This lets you swim when you may get to the pool or bike when you could have extra time, not as a result of I stated it’s a must to do it on a sure day.

     

    Please don’t do the identical sport two days in a row (instance: swim on Monday and Tuesday). You are able to do multiple exercise in a day, however want not less than three hours between for restoration. There are six exercises in every week. Don’t make up any you miss from earlier weeks. It’s essential to take one entire break day in every week to relaxation and recuperate.

    Exercises for Week 1

     

    It’s all Concerning the CORE!

    When athletes produce the mandatory actions of their sports activities with elevated effectivity, their general efficiency improves. Better power of the core musculature will increase the soundness of the pelvis and backbone and improves physique management or stability throughout athletic actions, thus enhancing the effectivity of motion.

     

    Core power coaching can improve neuromuscular response and this will result in improved athletic efficiency. A stronger core requires much less forceful contractions of the peripheral muscle groups to supply a given quantity of energy, so the muscle groups – each within the core and within the stabilization – are much less prone to be injured throughout coaching and competitors.

     

    Core strengthening requires the common and correct train of your physique’s 29 core muscle groups.

     

    A powerful core provides you:

    • Elevated safety and "bracing" in your again
    • Managed motion
    • A extra secure heart of gravity
    • A extra secure platform for sports activities actions

     

    When you could have good core stability, the muscle groups in your pelvis, decrease again, hips, and stomach work in concord. They supply help to your backbone for almost any exercise.

    A weak core could make you vulnerable to poor posture, decrease again ache, and muscle accidents. Robust core muscle groups present the brace of help wanted to assist stop such ache and harm.

     

    Workouts which can be essential in core power growth:

    Susceptible Bridge (Bows and Toes)
    In a susceptible place on a ground mat, the athlete balances on the guidelines of toes and elbows whereas trying to keep up a straight line from heels to move. This train focuses on each the anterior and posterior muscle teams of the trunk and pelvis.

     

    Lateral Bridge (Bridge Proper and Bridge Left)
    In a sideways posture on a ground mat, the athlete balances on one elbow and the facet of 1 foot whereas trying to maintain the physique aligned in a straight line. This train focuses on the belly obliques and transverse abdominus. Additionally, the lateral bridge teaches the athlete how you can sense the correct pelvic place.

     

     

    Supine Bridge
    In a supine posture on a ground mat, the athlete raises the hips in order that solely the top, shoulders, and ft are touching the mat. The supine bridge focuses on the gluteal muscle groups. Stronger glutes assist keep pelvic management, which is vital for actions that require hip extension.

     

    Comply with these pointers when coaching your core:

    1. Do your core workouts not less than 3 times every week
    2. Select workouts that work your core muscle groups concurrently. Somewhat than isolate every muscle group in your trunk, the most effective workouts in your core are people who get muscle groups working collectively on the identical time.
    3. Give attention to high quality of motion relatively than amount. You'll steadily construct as much as a larger variety of repetitions. When beginning out, take it sluggish and learn to correctly carry out every train with optimum approach.
    4. Breathe steadily and slowly. Breathe freely whereas doing every of the workouts in your core strengthening exercise. Your intuition could also be to carry your breath throughout an train, nevertheless it's higher to proceed respiration.
    5. Take a break whenever you want one. When your muscle groups get drained, cease and alter workouts. And, in the event you work your core muscle groups to fatigue throughout an train session, wait not less than a day between exercises to permit the muscle groups to recuperate.

     

    Remember the fact that strengthening exercises — even core strengthening — are only one a part of an entire health program. Embrace cardio train and adaptability coaching to spherical out your routine.

    Click on on the quantity under that corresponds to the week of coaching you're in.