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Sample 5-Day Split Training for Longevity, Strength & Recovery
Your body is a reflection of your daily habits, and if you’re aiming for transformation, training just a few days per week isn’t enough. While the often-prescribed three-days-per-week training recommendation might be a gentle starting point for beginners, real results in fat loss, muscle building, or skill development require consistent exposure to stimuli. These goals require typically four or more…
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Quick Leg Day Exercise
Pistol w/ 15lb KB counterweight. Form and depth are more important than speed. View this post on Instagram View this post on Instagram Pistol w/ 15lb KB counterweight. Form and depth are more important than speed. #pistol #pistolsquat #bodyweighttraining #legday #unilateraltraining #functionaltraining #singlelegsquat #calisthenics #calisthenicsmovement #fitmom A post shared by @ sylviapetrofit on Mar 16, 2020 at 8:32pm PDT…
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Sample Weekly Workout Schedule
A weekly training schedule should be a thoughtful organization of the days that you workout. This ensures that you can train each muscle group, each skill, or whatever your goal is with enough frequency for results, while also preventing overtraining. Many of us have never written a training routine, much less a training schedule. That seems like the territory of…
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My Biggest Leg Day Mistake
From 2007-2013, my “heavy” leg day exercises were done with the Smith and leg press machines. I trained hard, lifted heavy, but over that six-year period, all I got were big, shapeless legs. This made me jealous of other women who had well-developed, shapely legs. Diet aside, my body fat percentage never reached above 16%, so my muscles were not…
