Workout Wisdom #2: 5-Day Weekly Workout

Workout Wisdom #2
Five-Day Weekly Workout
 
 
This workout is brought to you courtesy of Brandon Huggins, an NCAA Division I strength and conditioning coach. For more information or customized workouts, please feel free to contact Brandon:
 
Brandon Huggins
Strength & Conditioning Coach/Owner
Top Athlete Training
IG: @thetopathlete
860-940-4530
 
Baseline Test
This is a good baseline test to perform before starting this five-day workout – or any workout program. Make sure to record your results and then every few weeks or once a month you can come back to the test and see how your results compare to the first time you did it so that you can track your gains.
 
  1. Max Push-ups until fatigue/rest 10 seconds, max push-ups to fatigue/rest 20 seconds/max pushups to fatigue (record all three numbers)
  2. 1-leg broad jump for distance (tape measure needed) – both legs
  3. Max Burpees in 60 seconds (no push-up)
  4. Max Y-Handcuffs without rest
  5. 1-leg Hip Bridge HOLD – max time (90-second limit each side)
  6. Side Plank Leg Raise HOLD  - max time (90-second limit each side)
 
Remember to record your results and come back to this test occasionally to see how you are progressing.

Time to Work Out!
Below please find a five-day workout that you can perform each week, either taking the weekend off to recover or mixing in two off days per every five days you work out. For example, you could work out Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and take Tuesday and Thursday off. Or you could do Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday – or any variation with two off days mixed in.
 
Daily Nutritional Checklist:
  • Snack
  • Pre-Dinner
  • Dinner
  • Snack
  • Drink 1-gallon Water
 
Daily Efficiency Checklist
  • Skill Development
  • Self Education
  • Read
  • Mediate
  • Self Reflect
 
DAY 1 – STRENGTH
Don’t talk about it. Be about it!
 
Rise & Shine – Morning wake-up
  1. 100 push-ups
  2. 100 body-weight squats
 
Afternoon Grind
 
Add weights if accessible and as needed
 
Round 1 x 2 sets
  1. Push-ups x 20-30
  2. Squats x 20-30
  3. T-Y Press x 20-30
  4. Split Lunge Hold x 20 sec. each
 
Round 2 x 2 sets
  1. Jump Squats x 20-30
  2. Split Lunges x 10 each side
 
Round 3 x 2 sets
  1. Blackburns (YWTA) holds x 10 sec. each
  2. Split Lunge Jump x 10 each side
 
Round 4 x 2 sets
  1. Transfer Squats x 20 (any type of weight acceptable)
  2. Blackburns (YWTA) x 8
 
Before Bed – 2 rounds
  1. Side Planks x 30 sec. each side
  2. 1-leg Glute Bridges x 10 each side
 
DAY 2 – METABOLIC CONDITIONING
Slight Work
 
Rise & Shine – Morning wake-up
  1. 100 T-Y Press
  2. 100 Lunges
 
Afternoon Grind
 
Add weights if accessible and as needed
 
Burpees no push-up – as fast as possible x 30, rest 30 sec, x 20, rest 20 sec. x 10
 
Circuit - as many rounds as possible in 30 minutes
  1. Side-to-side Squat Jumps x 12 sec. as fast as possible
  2. Power Jacks x 12
  3. 1-Leg Hip Bridges x 15 each side
 
Diaphragmatic Breathing
  • Deep breathing – 30 breaths
    • Big exhale on last breath and hold as long as possible
    • When ready, BIG inhale hold as long as possible
  • Deep Breathing – 30 breaths

 

Before Bed – 2 rounds

 
 
DAY 3 - Recovery
Just Getting Started
 
Rise & Shine – Morning wake-up
  1. 100 Hip Thrusters
  2. 100 Push-ups
 
Afternoon Grind
 
Add weights if accessible and as needed
 
 
Diaphragmatic Breathing
  • Deep breathing – 30 breaths
    • Big exhale on last breath and hold as long as possible
    • When ready, BIG inhale hold as long as possible
  • Deep Breathing – 30 breaths
 
Hip Series – 2 rounds x 30 sec. each
 
Crawling – 3 rounds x 30 sec. each
 
Marching & Skipping – 3 rounds x 30 sec. each
  1. Forward/Backward marching
  2. Lateral Skips (side to side)
 
Mobility – 3 rounds x 12 each
  1. Fire Hydrants – each side
 
Before Bed – 3 rounds
  1. Max Plank Hold – rest 30 sec.
 
 
DAY 4 - Performance
Be an Athlete
 
Rise & Shine – Morning wake-up
 
Afternoon Grind
 
Add weights if accessible and as needed
 
 
Line Drills = 3 x 3 (12 sec. each) rest 6 sec. between each
  • Hops
  • 2-foot forward/backward
  • 2-foot side to side
SIDE
 
  • Steps
  • 2-foot forward/backward
  • 2-foot in/out
OUT
 
  • Hops
  • 1-toot forward/backward
  • 1-foot side to side
SIDE
 
 
Forever Lunges – 2 rounds x 12 each
  1. Forward Lunge
 
Skiers x 3 rounds
  1. Lateral skiers x 10 each side
  2. 3-point skiers x 6 each side
Power Series
  1. Power Burpees – 3 sets of 4
 
Performance – five rounds
  1. Single-leg Reachout x 5 each side
  2. Bear Crawl x 10 feet forward/backward x 30 sec.
 
Before Bed – x 10 each
  1. 7-way hip series – up/down, forward, backward, forward/backward, forward circle, backward circle, bicycle
 
DAY 5 - Performance
‘Bout That Work
 
Rise & Shine – Morning wake-up
 
Afternoon Grind
 
Add weights if accessible and as needed
 
ECCENTRICS – SLOW MOTION (10-second reps !!)
  1. Push-ups – 6 for 60 seconds
  2. Squats – 6 for 60 seconds
  3. Blackburns (YWTA) – 6 for 60 seconds (first four on video)
  4. Split Lunge – 6 each leg for 10 second hold each rep for 60 seconds
 
Isometerics - Holds (two rounds)
  1. Push-up hold x 15 seconds/rest 10 seconds/15 seconds
  2. Squat hold x 30 seconds
  3. Y-Handcuff hold x 40 seconds
  4. Split Lunge Hold x 30 seconds each leg
 

Concentric - Explosive
 
Max Effort
  1. Max Push-ups
  2. Max Squats
  3. Max T-Y Press
 
Before Bed – Diaphragmatic Breathing
  • Deep breathing – 30 breaths
    • Big exhale on last breath and hold as long as possible
    • When ready, BIG inhale hold as long as possible
  • Deep Breathing – 30 breaths

 

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