The 4-Week Weight Loss Kick Start
Week 1 and 3
Week 2 and 4
Week 1 and 3 Workouts
There are intense workouts 4 times a week with a 5th workout that will be great for recovery and improving your mobility and flexibility to keep your body healthy and injury free. I also on Day 6 and 7 provide you with some stretching options. You don’t have to do these on the exact days but please do not do strength back to back with strength or cardio right by cardio.
- Day 1 - Squat and Press
- Day 2 - Tabata Interval Cardio
- Day 3 - Hinge and Pull
- Day 4 - Activation/Recovery
- Day 5 - Core Focused
- Day 6 - Stretch
- Day 7 - OFF!
Squat and Press Strength Options:
20/10 Tabata Options:
- The Broken Tabata Workout
- The Tabata Bodyweight Workout
- The Broken Tabata Blast (video follow along)
Hinge and Pull Strength Options:
- Butt and Back Supersets (sub dumbbell or kb for sandbag and towels for sliders)
- The Kettlebell Back and Butt Workout
- The Kettlebell Butt Workout
- The Deadlift and Core Workout (Sub in Band Rows for Inverted and dumbbells or kbs for sandbag)
If You’re Super Sore, Have Been Sitting Too Much, or Have Specific Pains:
Activation and Recovery (more challenging):
Core-Focused Strength Options:
- The Full-Body Resistance Band Workout
- Lunge For A Stronger Core And Legs (Again band or even dumbbell rows for inverted)
- The Standing Kettlebell Core Workout
- The Strength Those Glutes Workout
- The Anti-Rotational Core Workout (Single arm dumbbell or band row instead and kb or db for sandbag)
Quick Burnouts/Finishers (after workout bonuses):
More Cardio-ish Options:
- 20-Minute Dumbell Core Workout (follow along video)
- Quick Killer Cardio-Core Workout
- Suicide Core Workout
Take today to roll and stretch. You can also go for a walk.
Here are some recommended stretches:
Wrist Extension
Wrist Flexion
Quadruped Thoracic Rotation
Lying Chest Stretch with Scorpion
Frog Stretch
Crescent to Hamstring Stretch
Hurdles
3-Way Ankle Mobility
Week 2 and 4 Workouts
Same type of set up as Weeks 1 and 3; however, the strength are Upper, Lower and Core instead of alternating frontside and backside.
- Day 1 - 40/20 Cardio
- Day 2 - Upper Body Strength
- Day 3 - Cardio-Core
- Day 4 - Activation/Recovery
- Day 5 - Lower Body Strength
- Day 6 - Stretching
- Day 7 - OFF!
40/20 Cardio Options:
20/20/20 Cardio Options:
Upper Body Strength Options:
- Improve Your Press (again dumbbell or band rows for Inverted)
- The Upper Body Ladder Workout (Do Lat Pull Downs for Pull Ups and Band or Dumbbell Rows for Inverted and use another weight for pull thrus)
- The Push Up Destroyer Workout
- The Upper Body Bodyweight Workout (Use a towel for sliders)
- Reverse the Hunch Back Workout
Cardio-Core Options:
- Jump Rope Cardio Workout
- The Cardio Kick Start Workout
- The 15-Minute Cardio Core Blast
- The 15-Minute Sweat Session
- Resisted Sprints and Core Workout (just do the sprints on your treadmill instead!)
- Full-Body Step Workout (quick under 10 minute follow along)
If You’re Super Sore, Have Been Sitting Too Much, or Have Specific Pains:
- Pain Be Gone Isometrics
- The 10-Minute Feel Better Desk Workout
- The Desk Job Pain Reducer
- Reduce Your Neck And Shoulder Pain
Activation and Recovery (more challenging):
Lower Body Strength Options:
- 100 Rep Glute Bridge Challenge
- The Bodyweight Butt Blaster
- Lower Body Blast (Quick workout with burnout that is also in video form linked below)
- The Squat Destruction Workout
- 10-7-3-1 Deadlift Workout
- The 1-Minute Squat Challenge
Quick Burnouts/Finishers (after workout bonuses):
- The Mini Band Booty Burner (follow along)
- Quad Killer Burnout (follow along)
Stretching:
Take today to roll and stretch. You can also go for a walk.
Here are some recommended stretches:
Wrist Extension
Wrist Flexion
Quadruped Thoracic Rotation
Lying Chest Stretch with Scorpion
Frog Stretch
Crescent to Hamstring Stretch
Hurdles
3-Way Ankle Mobility