MOJO MULTIPLIER BLUEPRINT - WEEK FOUR

MOJO MULTIPLIER BLUEPRINT - WEEK FOUR

Day One - Warm Up, Standard Lunges, Bodyweight Squats, Narrow Push Ups, Chin Ups (resistance band assisted if needed), High Plank Hold, Bicep Curl
Day Two - 20-30 mins of gentle cardio
Day Three - 20-30 mins of gentle cardio
Day Four - Warm Up, Side Lunges, Bodyweight Squats, Diamond Push Ups, Tricep Dips, Standard Ab Crunch
Day Five - 20-30 mins of gentle cardio
Day Six - 15 minutes of sprints for 30 seconds at a time - High Intensity Interval Training
Day Seven - Rest

Full Body Dynamic Warm Up

The above video goes through all the exercises mentioned in the ebook except for the pull up - which are excellent if you have the strength. Exercises include the bodyweight squat (legs), push ups (arms, shoulders, back, core), lunges (legs) and sit ups (stomach/abdominals).

LEG EXERCISES

Bodyweight Squats

Isolation / Forward Lunges

Lunges work your glutes in your hips and butt along with the hamstrings and quadriceps in your thighs. The calf muscles in your lower legs, your abdominal muscles and your back muscles act as stabilisers during this exercise. Vary these each week but keep the same technique for 3 sets. Do as many as you can each time with a short break in between. 

Side Lunges

CORE

Plank Hold

Main muscles worked by the plank are the abdominals; rectus abdominis) and the transversus abdominis. These are the muscles in your belly, and the muscles that sit in between your belly and your side muscles. Stabilising muscles contracted include the obliques in your waist, your hip flexors, your quadriceps in your thighs, the pectoralis major in your chest, and a group of muscles covering your ribcage called serratus anterior, or “boxer’s muscle.”

Hold the plank for a minute without sinking your lower back to avoid injury. You can mix them up by raising your legs either one at a time or alternately. If you want to go nuts, raise your arms out in front as well. You'll be dripping in no time.

Ab Crunches (Sit Ups) - Standard

Sit ups work all your abdominal muscles when you vary the actions from week to week. The important thing to remember with sit ups is not to strain your neck or back. There's no need for anyone to hold your feet down and the most effective sit ups are done slowly and up to about 45 degrees. Do as many as you can comfortably and aim for 3 sets. Never lose form so don't push it.

Note: Don't be thinking that doing countless sit-ups will reveal your abs! They will indeed build your abs, but the only way to reveal them is to burn fat around your belly - for which training the largest muscle groups is most effective, combined with steady-paced cardio and high intensity interval training. It's more fun to work the abs/core in exercises like the bear crawl or plank hold.

UPPER BODY

Push Ups

Push ups are a great compound exercise. They work all the muscles in your back, shoulders, triceps and to some extent your biceps. Do 3 sets, each time doing as many as you can to failure. This will vary a lot according to the individual. You can mix them up between hands shoulder width apart, wide handed and diamond.

Chin Ups

Tricep Dip

Bent Over Row

ISOLATION STRENGTH TRAINING

Bicep Curls

Welcome

Welcome to week four of the Mojo Multiplier Blueprint. As with week 3, we've included a few exercises with dumbbells if you have some at home, or indeed if you are doing this program in your gym. The bodyweight exercises are sufficient in strengthening and the dumbbells add a little more variety should you wish to use them. We've included bicep curls which are an isolation exercise (ie not compound that span your largest muscle groups) - but who doesn't want nice guns? 🙂