Grit By Name and By Nature

How To Use Your Guide

The Calendar

The first page of your guide is a calendar. I suggest that you stick with each progression for 4 weeks before moving up in difficulty. Begin by writing in your start day and then fill in your seven days of the week with your workouts. Each week you will need:

  • EMOM Legs
  • EMOM Arms
  • EMOM Core
  • EMOM Total Body
  • 1-2 x 30 min of LISS (low intensity steady state cardio… like walking!)
  • 1 x HIIT (high intensity interval training) workout (15-20 min)

I have filled out the first week for you as an example, but feel free to modify it to fit in your schedule. You can schedule LISS and an EMOM workout or LISS and a HIIT workout on the same day, but avoid two EMOM workouts or a HIIT and an EMOM workout on the same day.

The Workouts

Pick 5 arm moves that you feel comfortable with and combine them into a workout in the EMOM guide provided.

Do the same for five different leg moves, five different core moves, and five different total body moves, and you’ve got yourself a week’s worth of resistance band workouts 😊

Start with 8 reps per move. When/if that feels easy, up it to 10 reps. If that gets too easy, keep raising it (maxing out at 18 reps). Use the downloads to jot down your reps and note your progressions.

For a complete list of resistance exercises fit for all my intermediate friends out there, see below.

LEGS

ARMS

CORE

TOTAL BODY

DON’T FORGET YOUR WARM-UP AND COOLDOWN! For a warm-up, I suggest 5-minutes of LISS movement (brisk walk or jog, exercise bike, row, etc. etc.) or three-minutes of plyos (1 min jumping jacks, 1 min jog in place, 1 min side-to-side lunges).

I suggest you stick with the same weekly workouts for 2-4 weeks, after which you can shake things up and swap out your moves for some new ones. Remember that as these moves get easier, you should increase your resistance by moving to a heavier band. If you’re feeling like a #baller and 15 minutes just isn’t enough to scratch your itch, then maybe it’s time to move to the advanced guide linked here.

A reminder that these workouts should be incorporated into your active lifestyle, meaning that you should be choosing movement throughout the day. Try to get in two different days of LISS for 30 minutes and one HIIT workout every week.

For my LISS, I take two 15-minute walks outside during the workday which I love and cherish and use to soak up some Vitamin D and call my mom (who I also love and cherish). You should choose something you love too, like walking to your favorite coffee shop, biking with a friend, fetch with your dog, going on a hike, breaking it down to Britney, or maybe you’re one of those people who are really into cleaning your car or apartment (apparently those types of people exist). I don’t want you to dread any of these workouts, so if you hate treadmills, DON’T PLAN YOUR LISS ON A TREADMILL. That would be silly.

You had better believe that I’ve included HIIT workout formats for you here and here. I also have provided a sample HIIT workout that destroys me in the best way possible. More routines and videos are coming friends, but please bear with me now as I go through these workouts with images and text.

If you need help putting moves together, finding a LISS routine that sticks, or if you have any questions in general, feel free to shoot me an email or DM to @gritbyname 😊