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5-day home muscular endurance workout plan Calisthenics Endurance Ladder
Five days climbing rep ladders on a handful of movements, until high reps stop feeling hard. Add one rung a week.
- Level
- Advanced
- Days a week
- 5
- Per session
- 57–72 min
- Goal
- Muscular endurance
- Equipment
- None, bodyweight only

Workout schedule
5 days a week · 16 exercises · select a name for its video and how-to
Tick a box for each set you finish, or write in the reps you got. Every exercise's how-to is at gymvim.app/exercises.
Day 1 · ~57 min Push Ladder
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Push Up
Chest · Bodyweight
8 sets of 25 reps · 0:40 rest
0:40 rest
- Movement
- Push
- Primary
- Chest
- Also works
- Front Delts, Triceps
- Exercise level
- Beginner
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Diamond Push Ups
Triceps · Bodyweight
5 sets of 18 reps · 0:40 rest
0:40 rest
- Movement
- Push
- Primary
- Triceps
- Exercise level
- Beginner
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Mountain Climber
Abs · Bodyweight
5 sets of 20 reps · 0:35 rest
0:35 rest
- Movement
- Plyometric
- Primary
- Abs
- Exercise level
- Beginner
Day 2 · ~72 min Squat Ladder
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Bodyweight Squat
Glutes · Bodyweight
6 sets of 40 reps · 0:40 rest
0:40 rest
- Movement
- Squat
- Primary
- Glutes, Quads
- Exercise level
- Beginner
-
Bodyweight Alternating Reverse Lunges
Glutes · Bodyweight
4 sets of 30 reps · 0:40 rest
0:40 rest
- Movement
- Lunge
- Primary
- Glutes, Quads
- Exercise level
- Intermediate
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Front Plank on Elbows
Abs · Bodyweight
4 sets of 1m 30s · 0:45 rest
0:45 rest
- Movement
- Core
- Primary
- Abs
- Also works
- Front Delts, Glutes, Quads
- Exercise level
- Beginner
Day 3 · ~59 min Core Ladder
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Dead Bug
Abs · Bodyweight
4 sets of 30 reps · 0:30 rest
0:30 rest
- Movement
- Core
- Primary
- Abs
- Exercise level
- Beginner
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V-Up
Abs · Bodyweight
4 sets of 25 reps · 0:30 rest
0:30 rest
- Movement
- Core
- Primary
- Abs
- Also works
- Quads
- Exercise level
- Intermediate
-
Bodyweight Russian Twist
Abs · Bodyweight
3 sets of 40 reps · 0:30 rest
0:30 rest
- Movement
- Rotation
- Primary
- Abs
- Exercise level
- Beginner
-
Hand Plank
Abs · Bodyweight
3 sets of 1m 30s · 0:40 rest
0:40 rest
- Movement
- Core
- Primary
- Abs
- Exercise level
- Beginner
Day 4 · ~67 min Posterior Ladder
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Good Mornings
Glutes · Bodyweight
5 sets of 30 reps · 0:40 rest
0:40 rest
- Movement
- Hinge
- Primary
- Glutes, Hamstrings
- Also works
- Abs
- Exercise level
- Beginner
-
Single Legged Romanian Deadlifts
Glutes · Bodyweight
4 sets of 20 reps · 0:40 rest
0:40 rest
- Movement
- Hinge
- Primary
- Glutes, Hamstrings
- Also works
- Abs
- Exercise level
- Beginner
-
Bodyweight Deadlift
Abs · Bodyweight
4 sets of 30 reps · 0:35 rest
0:35 rest
- Movement
- Hinge
- Primary
- Abs
- Also works
- Glutes
- Exercise level
- Beginner
-
Supermans
Abs · Bodyweight
4 sets of 30 reps · 0:30 rest
0:30 rest
- Movement
- Core
- Primary
- Abs
- Exercise level
- Beginner
Day 5 · ~62 min Mixed Ladder
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Burpee
Abs · Bodyweight
4 sets of 18 reps · 0:45 rest
0:45 rest
- Movement
- Plyometric
- Primary
- Abs, Chest
- Also works
- Quads
- Exercise level
- Intermediate
-
Mountain Climber
Abs · Bodyweight
4 sets of 40 reps · 0:35 rest
0:35 rest
- Movement
- Plyometric
- Primary
- Abs
- Exercise level
- Beginner
-
Jump Squats
Glutes · Bodyweight
4 sets of 40 reps · 0:30 rest
0:30 rest
- Movement
- Plyometric
- Primary
- Glutes, Quads
- Exercise level
- Beginner
-
Front Plank on Elbows
Abs · Bodyweight
3 sets of 1m · 0:40 rest
0:40 rest
- Movement
- Core
- Primary
- Abs
- Also works
- Front Delts, Glutes, Quads
- Exercise level
- Beginner
About this plan
Who it's for
For people with years of training behind them. You need no equipment.
Not the right fit?
- Want something less demanding: Muscular Endurance Split, intermediate, 4 days a week, with equipment.
- Training in a gym: High Rep Machine Endurance, beginner, 3 days a week, with equipment.
How to progress
Endurance builds by doing a little more work at the same effort.
- Change one thing. Add a few seconds to a timed interval, a round to a circuit, or a few reps to a set. Keep everything else as it was until the change feels routine.
- Volume before speed. Add volume before you add speed: a session you finish does more than a faster one you abandon halfway.
- Measure in months. Progress at this level is slow and measured over months. Small improvements count, and an easier week every so often helps you keep training hard the rest of the time.
If the numbers stop moving: If nothing moves for several weeks, look at sleep and recovery before adding more work.















