WORKOUT SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 24th
Workout Schedules | August 23, 2015
About the workout schedule
One of my workouts a day is good enough to improve your health and fitness, and get real visible results. If you’re super motivated to get super fast results, you can do the second suggested workout in this schedule, but caution should be taken to ensure that you’re not regressing by draining your energy too much.
That said, let me give you a few tips:
1. Don’t do 2 high intensity workouts back to back. It’s going to be way more effective if you do each of them with fresh energy, so take at least a few hours in between them. If you’re fresh and strong for each workout, you’ll be able to push yourself harder and thus burn more calories and contract your muscles better. The only exception is Power Yoga. You can do PoYo after any workout since it’s an aerobic based routine focused mainly on stretching and core work.
2. Support your training with proper diet. Read through my Nutrition Guide to get the idea.
3. Track your progress. Always write down your score for every workout. If you see that you’re not beating your personal bests for routines you’ve done in the past, the chances are you’re overtraining yourself instead of getting stronger. If you’re getting fitter, stronger, and faster, it’s going to reflect on your body so keeping track of your times and reps is really important. You should also take measurements with a tape measure, and before and after pictures. Weighing yourself won’t tell you much unless you can track your body fat % which is not easy to do accurately at home.
I’m posting new workouts at midnight (PST -8) Los Angeles time zone, before the day starts. You can find this workout schedule on the right side of each page with links to the new workouts included.
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Monday – Summer Shred #10X (beat your personal best) + Arm Balance #9
Your second workout can be Jump Rope Cardio #1
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Tuesday – Jump Rope Cardio #16 (New in ZGYM) + Arm Balance #9
Your second workout can be Kettlebell Workout #6
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Wednesday – Beginner Cardio #1 (beat your personal best) + Arm Balance #9
Your second workout can be beginner strength #4
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Thursday – 15 Minute Fat Burn #5 (new in ZGYM) + Arm Balance #9
Your second workout can be Cardio Shred #4
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Friday – 5 Minute Workout #45 (new in Fitness) + Arm Balance #9
Your second workout can be 5 Minute Workout #35
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Saturday – Kettlebell Workout #4 (beat your personal best) + Arm Balance #9
Your second workout can be Body Crush #5
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Sunday – Arm Balance #10 – All Levels (New in ZGYM)
Your second workout can be ZWOW #7
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Workout Schedule for Beginners
If you’re a beginner and you have just joined ZGYM™ for the first time, you should be focusing on building your strength and endurance via beginner workouts so that you can eventually progress to workout series such as Cardio Shred, Body Crush, Kettlebell Workouts, Jump Rope Cardio, etc.
If you stay consistent and workout daily, you can get there in just a few weeks. Remember that everything takes time and practice, but nothing is impossible. EXERCISE DAILY!
There are 10 workout routines in Beginner Cardio Series, 10 in Beginner Strength Series, and 12 in Kettlebell Workouts for All Levels. You can find all of the Beginner Workouts under ZGYM > Series Title > Beginner Class. This is how you can rotate them in your weekly workout schedule:
WEEK #1
Monday – Beginner Cardio #1
Tuesday – Beginner Strength #1
Wednesday – Kettlebell workout for all levels #1
Thursday – Beginner Cardio #1 (push yourself more and try to be faster)
Friday – Beginner Strength #1 (give it your max. effort, and be faster than you were for the first time)
Saturday – Kettlebell Workout for all levels #1 (try to complete more total reps)
Sunday – Arm Balance #1 – start this series from the beginning and try to practice the same routine daily as recommended until the next Sunday. Then switch to Arm Balance #2 and continue your daily practice. This series is a great way to stretch your body and strengthen your core, arms, back and shoulders.
WEEK #2 – WEEK #10
Is the same structure as week #1, but you will change the workouts from Beginner cardio #1 and move on to #2 and Beginner Strength #1 to Beginner Strength #2. The same with the Kettlebell for All Levels. Every week you will pick the next workout in line.
This way, you will have 10 weeks to complete all of the Beginner Workouts (Cardio & Strength) in the ZGYM™ and build your strength, cardio and flexibility for my high intensity routines.
WEEK #11
In this week you will finish the Kettlebell Workouts for All Levels series and try some of my easier routines from the advanced series. This way you will ease into the main weekly workout schedule…
Monday – Kettlebell Workout for All Leves #11
Tuesday – Body Crush #1 (bodyweight workout)
Wednesday – Kettlebell Workout for All Levels #12
Thursday – Cardio Shred #1 (using weights, and jump rope)
Friday – Kettlebell Workout for All Levels #11 (push yourself harder than the last time)
Saturday – Kettlebell Workout for All Levels #12 (beat your personal best)
Sunday – Arm Balance #6 (do this routine daily until the next Sunday, then switch to the next one in this series)
WEEK #12
Congratulations!! You’re ready to start following the main workout schedule on the side bars. Those workouts are not easy, but you have come so far and built so much strength that you’ll be only making progress moving forward. You can always modify any exercise if it’s too hard and go at your own pace. Just don’t lose what you’ve gained over the past 11 weeks by procrastinating!!
Private Member |
Hiya hope you can help. The first week I understand, but I’m not sure how I can complete the 20 beginner workouts (10 cardio & 10 strength) in 5 weeks if I’m repeating them twice a week as per week 1? Are weeks 2-5 different in that I would be doing cardio&strength 2 & 3 only once or do I do 2 workouts a day?
I’m so confused and I bet what I just wrote didn’t make an ounce of sense, but in a nutshell how do I complete 20 workouts in 5 weeks if I’m only doing one a day? O.o
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I understand where you may be confused. I think in order to fit in Cardio and Strength 1-10 in 5 weeks, you would have to change Thursday and Friday to Cardio and Strength #2. In the week 1 schedule, she put kettle bell work out 1 & 2. Week 2 would be kettle bell work out 2 & 3. By week 6, you will be able to do the schedule she has provided for week 6. If you would like to follow the instructions she stated in the schedule for the Beginner Class, it would take 10 weeks.
Private Member |
I am reading it like this… except for beginner cardio #1 in week 1, beginner strength #1 in week 1 and arm balance workouts don’t repeat any of the workouts just keep going to the next. Hope that helps.
Week 1
Monday – Beginner Cardio #1
Tuesday – Beginner Strength #1
Wednesday – Kettlebell workout for all levels #1
Thursday – Beginner Cardio #1
Friday – Beginner Strength #1
Saturday – Kettlebell Workout for all levels #2
Sunday – Arm Balance #1
Week 2
Monday – Beginner Cardio #2, Arm Balance #1
Tuesday – Beginner Strength #2, Arm Balance #1
Wednesday – Kettlebell workout for all levels #2, Arm Balance #1
Thursday – Beginner Cardio #3, Arm Balance #1
Friday – Beginner Strength #4 Arm Balance #1
Saturday – Kettlebell Workout for all levels #3, Arm Balance #1
Sunday – Arm Balance #2
Week 3
Monday – Beginner Cardio #3, Arm Balance #2
Tuesday – Beginner Strength #5, Arm Balance #2
Wednesday – Kettlebell workout for all levels #4, Arm Balance #2
Thursday – Beginner Cardio #4, Arm Balance #2
Friday – Beginner Strength #6 Arm Balance #2
Saturday – Kettlebell Workout for all levels #5, Arm Balance #2
Sunday – Arm Balance #3
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Private Member |
ramona, ca, usa
I came to a slightly different conclusion haha 🙂
Week 1
Monday – Beg. Cardio #1
Tuesday – Beg. Strength #1
Wednesday – Kettlebell All Levels #1
Thursday – Beg. Cardio #2
Friday – Beg. Strength #2
Saturday – Kettlebell All Levels #2
Sunday – Arm Balance #1
Week 2
Monday – Beg. Cardio #3 & Arm Balance #1
Tuesday – Beg. Strength #3 & Arm Balance #1
Wednesday – Kettlebell All Levels #3 & Arm Balance #1
Thursday – Beg. Cardio #4 & Arm Balance #1
Friday – Beg. Strength #4 & Arm Balance #1
Saturday – Kettlebell All Levels #4 & Arm Balance #1
Sunday – Arm Balance #2
Week 3 (similar format as Week 2, repeat for weeks 3-5)
Monday – Beg. Cardio #5 & Arm Balance #2
Tuesday – Beg. Strength #5 & Arm Balance #2
Wednesday – Kettlebell All Levels #5 & Arm Balance #2
Thursday – Beg. Cardio #6 & Arm Balance #2
Friday – Beg. Strength #6 & Arm Balance #2
Saturday – Kettlebell All Levels #6 & Arm Balance #2
Sunday – Arm Balance #3
So Week 5 will complete the Beginner Cardio & Strength series ending on #10 for each of those. This will also take you through Kettlebell All Levels #10. Then you would move on to Week 6 as follows to complete the Kettlebell All Levels series:
Week 6:
Monday – Kettlebell All Levels #11 & Arm Balance #5
Tuesday – Body Crush #1 & Arm Balance #5
Wednesday – Kettlebell All Levels #12 & Arm Balance #5
Thursday – Cardio Shred #1 & Arm Balance #5
Friday – Kettlebell All Levels #11 & Arm Balance #5
Saturday – Kettlebell Levels #12 & Arm Balance #5
Sunday – Arm Balance #6
Week 7 moves on to follow the regular workout schedule.
That was my take on it, not sure if that’s correct or not but I plan to follow this format 🙂
Private Member |
YESS! New JRC coming!! Can’t wAit!! 😬
Private Member |
tx
I’m still a little confused about the beginner workouts as well. So week 2 is Monday and Tuesday cardio 2 and strength 2, then Thursday and Friday switch to cardio 3 and strength 3? Thanks for the help!!