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TAYLORKAYTEEE
INTRODUCTION
Hey you!
Welcome to my fitness plan. I am so excited for you to start this journey with me!
My Fitness Journey
I started my fitness journey three years ago, it’s been a
bumpy ride but also a huge experience. I have learned so
much in the process and achieved so many goals of mine-
yep it feels amazing!
One last thing… PLEASE take progress pictures (the best way to track your progress) and
send them to me once you have completed the 8 weeks.
I can’t wait to see!
Kate Taylor is not a qualified trainer and does not take give any assurance to the results this guide may achieve. She is also not liable for any
losses or damages occurring due to this guide. Make sure you have spoken to your doctor or other health professional as this guide is for
inspirational purposes only. By reading this guide you agree that you have read this disclaimer.
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SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND
Gluteus Maximus
Gluteus Medius
Gluteus Minimus
- largest muscle in
the body
- powerful hip - powerful hip
- powerful hip abductors and internal abductors and
extensor and rotators
internal rotators
external rotator
improves posture
physique improvements
Since the gluteus maximus is the largest (arguably most powerful) muscle in the body, it needs
to be allotted a large amount of training focus. simple right?
Many people do not notice improvements because the exercises they are doing are
proportionately growing their legs (quads, hamstrings) therefore making glute growth less
noticeable! To grow your glutes at a higher ratio to the rest of your lower body, you need to
be performing more isolation exercises in your lower body training day!
Isolation exercises specifically target a primary muscle e.g. the gluteus maximus.
Slow-twitch muscle fibres show greater muscle growth when lighter weights are li"ed until
failure (also known as, high reps, low weight).
Slow-twitch fibres cannot grow as large as fast-twitch fibres. However, slow-twitch fibre
growth is still very significant if you want to maximise gluteal hypertrophy. An example of the
importance is that body builders appear more muscular than powerli"ers - powerli"ers are
focusing on high weight, almost ignoring their slow-twitch fibres.
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SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND
The aim is muscle hypertrophy (muscle gain). There are 2 primary mechanisms for hypertrophy:
Mechanical tension :
passive elastic tension - placing tension on a muscle by stretching it without letting it
contract
When you li" weights through a full range of motion, the muscles are placed under a
combination of passive and active tension
Metabolic stress :
The burning feeling you get when you’re targeting a muscle and the pump you receive. This is
brought around by:
the occlusion of veins by the persistent muscle contractions, preventing the blood from
escaping.
the lack of oxygen supply in muscles due to veins being trapped
the build up of metabolic byproducts (lactate) and increased hormonal surge
the cell swelling. Resulting in a ‘pump’ - this is due to the pooling of blood
Both of these mechanisms must be utilised with progressive overload (basically, the increase in
stress on the muscle). Throughout time, your muscles get bigger/stronger and what once
fatigued your muscles… may no longer! This is where progressive overload comes in. You must be
challenging yourself and making greater demands from your skeletal muscle regularly.
This is essentially ‘shocking’ your muscles…making sure they don’t get used to your routine!
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NUTRITION
Protein Carbohydrates
Protein is said to be the most Carbs are important for fuelling your workouts and
important macronutrient for keeping your energy levels high. If you lack energy, you
growing muscle and loosing fat. will not perform to your maximum ability in your weight
Most studies indicated that a li"ing session (therefore less gains).
protein intake of 1.6-2.0 g/kg/day
is sufficient to maximise muscle
protein synthesis and optimise Fat
strength gains and hypertrophy. Many people are scared of eating fat. However, fat is
Most studies conclude that the important in many ways including, maintaining hormone
time of day and amount of meals levels, performance reasons, taste and feeling satisfied with
doesn’t matter as long as you your meal.
reach the daily goal!
In terms of total calories, to get an EXACT number, it completely depends on your body, including: your
metabolism, you body fat%, lean mass etc. however, you can use online calculators that will give you a
general idea which will be close enough.
Example Macros
I weigh 54kg and I am eating in calorific surplus for muscle gain. This will not necessarily work for you
and should only be used as a guide!
Calories: 1850
Carbohydrates: 254g (55% of my intake)
Protein: 93g (20% of my intake)
Fat: 51g (25% of my intake)
You can track your calorific intake by either writing it down in a diary or you can download an app for
your phone. I recommend ‘MyFitnessPal’.
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WARMING UP
Most people in this day and age spend a lot of time sitting down (usually sat at a desk all day for
work). This can result in your glutes becoming ‘underactive’ - less active than they should be. They
can loose blood supply and neural input!
This is where warming up and ‘glute activation’ comes in! Warming up your glutes is simply
contracting your gluteus muscles prior to a workout to prepare them for a workout.
Warming up is also important before any strenuous activity so that you don’t risk injury and can get
the most out of your workout
Glute activation exercises can be body weight or with a resistance band. Exercises include: Squats,
Glute Bridges, Donkey Kickbacks, abduction. Try and do as many reps of these as you can until you
feel your glutes firing up!
STAYING MOTIVATED
Everybody has times where they’d rather stay at home and watch the rest of a season on Netflix, it’s
completely normal for the novelty of the gym to wear off when you aren’t seeing results as quickly
as you’d imagined.
However, this is what separates people who succeed their goals and people who don’t! If you start
getting into the habit of thinking ‘i’ll just skip it today, I can go tomorrow’ it will become a never
ending cycle (trust me, I know!)
Don’t have a day off because you’re pushing your problems into tomorrow. If you’re going to have
a day off, let it be because you’ve been working hard and consistently and you DESERVE a day off.
Listen to your favourite music while working out - the gym will become your escape and
1 ‘you time’
Understand the importance of exercise (past the superficial basis) - wanting to be healthy is
2 just as important as wanting to look good!
Be a bit narcissistic! - you’re working hard and you deserve to check yourself out! Look in the
3 mirror at the gym and be proud of your progress, even if its baby steps.
Take a friend to the gym with you - there is nothing better than having a girly catch up while
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growing a booty
PROGRESS PICTURES - i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again ! It is the best feeling looking
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back at where you started
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WORKOUT OVERVIEW
WEEK 7 WEEK 8
Day 1 - Legs Day 1 - Legs
DAY 1
EXERCISE REPS SETS
Moderate weight
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WEEK 1
DAY 2
Crunch Twist Alternating leg twist crunch
AB CIRCUIT
1 min per exercise, REPEAT
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WEEK 1
DAY 3
EXERCISE
10 minutes - HIIT sprints (1 minutes sprint, 1 minutes break)
Repeat 5X
20 burpees, repeat 4X
OR
EXERCISE
10 minutes - bike (1 minute 90rpm, 1 minute 100+ rpm, 1 minute
break) repeat 4X
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WEEK 1
DAY 4
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WEEK 1
DAY 5
EXERCISE REPS SETS
Moderate weight
20 reps (moderate
Calf Raise X4
weight)
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WEEK 1
DAY 6
EXERCISE REPS SETS
12 reps Lat Pull Down
Cables 12 reps Upper-hand
(Superset) Pulldown X4
Light weight
Upright Row
12 reps (light weight) X4
(barbell)
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WEEK 1
DAY 7
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WEEK 2
WEEK 2
DAY 1
EXERCISE REPS SETS
10 reps single leg - each
leg (moderate weight)
Mini Leg Press 10 reps double leg X4
(heavy weight)
20 reps (moderate
Abductor Machine weight) X4
12 reps (moderate
Landmine Squat X4
weight)
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WEEK 2
DAY 2
Twisting Ball Crunch Heel Touches
AB CIRCUIT
1 min per exercise, REPEAT
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WEEK 2
DAY 3
EXERCISE
10 minutes - HIIT sprints (1 minutes sprint, 1 minutes break)
Repeat 5X
20 burpees, repeat 4X
OR
EXERCISE
10 minutes - bike (1 minute 90rpm, 1 minute 100+ rpm, 1 minute
break) repeat 4X
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WEEK 2
DAY 4
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WEEK 2
DAY 5
EXERCISE REPS SETS
Smith Machine
Deadlifts 15 reps (heavy weight) X4
20 steps (moderate
Walking Lunges X4
weight)
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WEEK 2
DAY 6
EXERCISE REPS SETS
Bent Over
12 reps (light weight) X4
Pulldown (Cable)
Biceps Curl
12 reps (light weight) X4
(barbell)
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WEEK 2
DAY 7
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WEEK 31
WEEK 3
DAY 1
EXERCISE REPS SETS
12 reps starting on
moderate weight and
Hip Thrust Increasing weight after
X4
each set
20 reps (moderate
Calf Raises X4
weight)
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WEEK 3
DAY 2
AB CIRCUIT
1 min per exercise, REPEAT
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WEEK 3
DAY 3
EXERCISE
10 minutes - HIIT sprints (1 minutes sprint, 1 minutes break)
Repeat 5X
20 burpees, repeat 4X
OR
EXERCISE
10 minutes - bike (1 minute 90rpm, 1 minute 100+ rpm, 1 minute
break) repeat 4X
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WEEK 3
DAY4
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WEEK 3
DAY 5
EXERCISE REPS SETS
12 reps starting at a
moderate weight and
Squats (Barbell)
increasing the weight X4
after each set
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WEEK 31
DAY 6
EXERCISE REPS SETS
Tricep Pushdown
12 reps (light weight) X4
(Cable)
Upright Row
12 reps (light weight) X4
(Dumbbell)
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WEEK 3
DAY 7
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WEEK 4
WEEK 4
DAY 1
EXERCISE REPS SETS
8 reps sumo deadlifts
Deadlifts 8 reps Romanian
(Superset) deadlifts
Moderate weight
X4
10 reps
Hip Thrust Hold at the top of the X4
thrust for 2 seconds
20 reps (moderate
Abductor Machine X4
weight)
20 reps (moderate
weight)
Landmine Deadlift Add weight, 15 reps X4
Add weight, 10 reps
Add weight, 5 reps
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WEEK 4
DAY 2
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WEEK 4
DAY 3
EXERCISE
10 minutes - HIIT sprints (1 minutes sprint, 1 minutes break) Repeat 5X
20 burpees, repeat 4X
AB CIRCUIT
1 min per exercise, REPEAT
20 reps (moderate
weight)
Mini Leg Press 10 reps (heavy weight)
X4
ALL (30 reps) = 1 set
15 reps (moderate X4
Cable Kick back
weight)
Landmine
10 landmine squats
(Superset)
10 landmine deadlifts
X4
Abductor Machine
20 reps (moderate X4
(Resistance Band) weight)
20 steps (moderate
Walking lunges X4
weight)
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WEEK 4
DAY 5
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WEEK 4
DAY 6
EXERCISE REPS SETS
10 reps starting on
moderate weight and
increasing the weight
Deadlifts
after each set X4
X4
20 steps (moderate
Walking Lunges weight) X4
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WEEK 4
DAY 7
EXERCISE REPS SETS
Tricep Pushdown
12 reps (light weight) X4
(Cable)
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WEEK 5
WEEK 5
DAY 1
EXERCISE REPS SETS
20 reps (light weight)
10 reps (heavy weight)
Mini Leg Press X4
Both (30 reps) = 1 set
Using a resistance
Hip thrust (With band, Abduct at the top X4
Abduction) of the thrust
12 reps (heavy weight)
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WEEK 5
DAY 2
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WEEK 5
DAY 3
EXERCISE
10 minutes - bike (1 minute 90rpm, 1 minute 100+ rpm, 1 minute break)
repeat 4X
AB CIRCUIT
1 min per exercise, REPEAT
8 reps deadlift
Deadlifts 8 reps romanian deadlift
(Superset)
X4
Moderate weight
20 reps (moderate
Calf Raises X4
weight)
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WEEK 5
DAY 5
Bent Over
12 reps (light weight) X4
Pulldown (Cable)
Biceps Curl
12 reps (light weight) X4
(Barbell)
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WEEK 5
DAY 6
EXERCISE REPS SETS
10 reps single leg - each
leg (moderate weight)
10 reps double leg
Mini Leg Press
(heavy weight) X4
15 reps (moderate
Cable Kick back X4
weight)
20 reps (moderate
Abductor Machine X4
weight)
12 reps (moderate
Landmine Squat X4
weight)
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WEEK 5
DAY 7
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WEEK 6
WEEK 6
DAY 1
EXERCISE REPS SETS
12 reps Lat Pull Down
Cables 12 reps Upper-hand
(Superset) Pulldown X4
Light weight
Seated Row
12 reps (light weight) X4
(Cable)
Upright Row
12 reps (light weight) X4
(Barbell)
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WEEK 6
DAY 2
EXERCISE REPS SETS
10 reps normal
Deadlifts 10 reps Romanian
(Superset)
Moderate weight X4
Hip Thrust
Hold for 2 seconds at the
X4
top of the thrust
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WEEK 6
DAY 3
EXERCISE
10 minutes - HIIT sprints (1 minutes sprint, 1 minutes break) Repeat 5X
20 burpees, repeat 4X
AB CIRCUIT
1 min per exercise, REPEAT
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WEEK 6
DAY 5
EXERCISE REPS SETS
20 reps staring on light
weight
Squats Add wight, 15 reps
X4
Add weight, 10 reps
Add weight 5 reps
20 reps starting on
moderate weight
Add weight, 15 reps
Hip Thrusts X4
Add weight, 10 reps
Add weight, 5 reps
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WEEK 6
DAY 6
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WEEK 6
DAY 7
EXERCISE REPS SETS
10 reps landmine squats
Landmine
10 reps landmine deadlifts
(Superset)
X4
Moderate weight
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WEEK 7
WEEK 7
DAY 1
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WEEK 7
DAY 2
EXERCISE
10 minutes - bike (1 minute 90rpm, 1 minute 100+ rpm, 1 minute break)
repeat 4X
AB CIRCUIT
1 min per exercise, REPEAT
Pyramid
20 reps staring
Hip Thrusts moderate weight X4
add weight, 15 reps
add weight, 10 reps
add weight, 5 reps
25 steps (moderate
Walking Lunges X4
weight)
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WEEK 7
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DAY 4
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WEEK 7
DAY 5
EXERCISE REPS SETS
Bent Over
12 reps (light weight) X4
Pulldown (Cable)
Biceps Curl
12 reps (light weight) X4
(barbell)
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WEEK 7
DAY 6
EXERCISE REPS SETS
Pyramid
20 reps staring
moderate weight
Hip Thrusts X4
add weight, 15 reps
add weight, 10 reps
add weight, 5 reps
Deadlifts
8 reps Normal
(Superset) 8 reps Romanian X4
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WEEK 7
DAY 8
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WEEK 8
WEEK 8
DAY 1
EXERCISE REPS SETS
20 reps (light weight)
10 reps (heavy weight)
Squats with
X4
resistance band Both (30 reps) = 1 set
Pyramid
20 reps staring
moderate weight
Hip Thrusts X4
add weight, 15 reps
add weight, 10 reps
add weight, 5 reps
8 reps normal
8 reps romanian
Deadlifts X4
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WEEK 8
DAY 2
EXERCISE
10 minutes - HIIT sprints (1 minutes sprint, 1 minutes break) Repeat 5X
20 burpees, repeat 4X
AB CIRCUIT
1 min per exercise, REPEAT
Bent Over
12 reps (light weight) X4
Pulldown (Cable)
Biceps Curl
12 reps (light weight) X4
(barbell)
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WEEK 8
DAY 4
EXERCISE REPS SETS
Pyramid
20 reps staring
moderate weight
Squats X4
add weight, 15 reps
add weight, 10 reps
add weight, 5 reps
10 reps
Hip Thrusts With abduction at the top of X4
the thrust
resistance band
Abductor with
10 reps (heavy weight) X4
resistance band
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WEEK 8
DAY 5
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WEEK 8
DAY 6
EXERCISE REPS SETS
8 reps normal
Deadlifts with 8 reps romanian
resistance band X4
Both (16 reps) = 1 set
Pyramid
20 reps staring
moderate weight
Hip Thrusts X4
add weight, 15 reps
add weight, 10 reps
add weight, 5 reps
Moderate weight
ALL (30 reps) = 1 set
30 steps (moderate
Walking Lunges X4
weight)
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WEEK 8
CONGRATULATIONS!