My 28-day Movement Calendars offer a well-rounded variety of workout classes. Each week, you have five days of functional workouts, an active recovery day (mobility), and a full rest day. The workouts will vary in structure and intensity. If your goal is to build maximal strength and muscle size or to make significant body composition changes, these calendars are *not* the most efficient way to do either. My training focus is more on the function of the human body. My classes are programmed with the goal of building a functionally strong body that is supported while doing the actives you love.
Movement Calendars Weekly Structure
The weekly structure alternates between odd and even calendars. This is to keep things from getting stale, and to allow for a greater variety of classes. The weeks look a little different, swapping some days, but the overall goal is the same:
While there is a lot of variety to be found in these Movement Calendars, the classes are all working towards the goal of a functionally strong body that moves efficiently through the activities you love and feels good while doing so!
ODD NUMBERED CALENDARS
Monday = Pilates-based workout
The goal of Pilates and Pilates-based movement is to build a strong foundation. We do this through breath work, deep core training, and targeting our smaller stabilizer muscles. This type of work helps support us in every day life, and through our favorite physical activities. By starting off the week with this type of movement, I think of it as setting up our support system for the workouts we’ll do throughout the rest of the week.
Tuesday = Lower body focused workout
Splitting the muscle group focus by day allows us to push hard, while giving other muscle groups adequate recovery time. Class on Tuesdays will have a lower body focus.
Wednesday = Upper body / core focused workout
While lower body recovers, we’ll focus on upper body and core on Wednesdays.
Thursday = Cardio / HIIT workout
These cardio-focused classes are total body, but HIIT (high intensity interval training) does tend to really challenge the legs. For that reason, these workouts follow an upper body focused day.
Friday = Mobility (active recovery)
Mobility refers to the ability of joints to move throughout their entire available range of motion. Not only does mobility training help us feel better doing day-to-day movement, but it can help with injury prevention and performance in other workouts. These classes are always low impact, but they are not always easy!
Saturday = Total body workout
We finish the week with a total body challenge.
Sunday = Rest
EVEN NUMBERED CALENDARS
Monday = Lower body focused workout
Splitting the muscle group focus by day allows us to push hard, while giving other muscles groups adequate recovery time. Class on Mondays will have a lower body focus.
Tuesday = Upper body / core focused workout
While lower body recovers, we’ll focus on upper body and core on Tuesdays.
Wednesday = Cardio / HIIT workout
These cardio-focused classes are total body, but HIIT (high intensity interval training) does tend to really challenge the legs. For that reason, these workouts follow an upper body focused day.
Thursday = Mobility (active recovery)
Mobility refers to the ability of joints to move throughout their entire available range of motion. Not only does mobility training help us feel better doing day-to-day movement, but it can help with injury prevention and performance in other workouts. These classes are always low impact, but they are not always easy!
Friday = Low impact total body workout
Friday classes are total body following our active recovery day. They’re low impact (no jumping), so these could include a Pilates-based class or a functional strength focused class.
Saturday = Total body workout
We finish the week with a total body challenge. These will incorporate some jumping, but low impact modification options are always shown on screen.
Sunday = Rest
Calendars – Clickable PDF
These calendars are not date-specific. You can start them any Monday you’d like! And you do not need to follow the calendars in order. (Movement Calendar 1 does not need to be completed before Movement Calendar 2. The numbering is just to help differentiate them.)
Current / Newest Calendar:
All Past Calendars
Clicking an image will open a PDF in a separate window.
The links become clickable as the videos are published to YouTube. If you try to click ahead, some of the future-date links won’t work yet.
In offering workout calendars, it’s important for me to mention that calendars are not for everyone! They should serve as a guide, providing some structure and motivation — but listening to your body always comes first. That means physically (if you need an extra rest day, take it!). It also means mentally. If you notice that missing a day is giving you anxiety or feelings of failure, then I would recommend avoiding calendars. Mental health is just as important as physical health — the two are inexorably linked! ❤️