5 Factor Diet Exercises

Celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak developed the Five Factor Diet to help his clients loose weight and get in shape without feeling deprived. The diet and exercise plan revolve around the number five. You eat five small meals a day that are prepared with five ingredients and take no longer than five minutes to cook. The exercise program requires you to work out five days a week and each workout contains five exercises that you perform for five minutes.

Total workout

The Five Factor Diet workout takes an average of 25 minutes. Pasternak believes that exercising for shorter periods of time but more consistently during the week give you better results. The workout consists of a cardio warm-up and five exercises that you perform for five minutes each. This exercise program is a type of circuit training, which blends cardiovascular and strength training into one workout.

Cardio Section

The cardio section of the five-factor diet workout is five minutes. You should work at a high level of intensity on different types of cardio machines. The treadmill, cycle and elliptical are acceptable forms of cardio training for this workout.

Upper Body Exercises

The upper body exercises in this workout includes your shoulders, arms, chest and back. Pasternak provides pictures of the strength training exercises you should perform. The bicep curl, triceps kickback, back-row, chest fly and deltoid raises are some of the strength training exercises in this program. You do the exercises for five sets of 25 repetitions.

Lower Body

The lower body exercises in this workout works your whole lower body with emphasis on your gluteals. You perform exercises such as squats, dead-lifts, quad-lifts and hamstring curls in alternating sections for five sets of 25 repetitions.

Core

The core exercises in this workout encompass your entire stomach and back. You perform standing as well as floor core exercises. Do each exercise, such as standing side-bends, crunches and the plank for five sets of 25 repetitions.