Name: Playbook - AJ Hotchkins - Lower Body Power Workout
Uploaded: 2023-08-11T16:43:53.459Z
Duration: 70 min
Description: Lower Body Power Workout

Today’s workout is a lower body power and explosion day!  Challenge yourself to keep the bar moving fast - utilizing lower body explosion from the hips + glutes / quads! 

We will perform some lower body contrast training today moving from heavier lower body compound lifts + lower body plyometric and explosive training! 

As always we will end out session with core workouts / kneeling med ball slam series💪🏽

Here is my foam rolling routine: 

Foam rolling is great deep tissue muscle work! 

Will help relieve muscle tightness / soreness and increase range of motion! 

No you cannot do enough of this! Take your time and find areas that are tight / spend more time there! I recommend this both before and after a workout - also great to do at home at anytime!

Let’s get it!

Foam roll both your upper and lower back, slow controlled motion (notice where your stiffness is and spend more time on that area) this should be slightly uncomfortable!

Upper / lower back

Foam roll your lats (upper left/right side of your back), slow controlled motion (notice where your stiffness is and spend more time on that area) this should be slightly uncomfortable!

Foam roll (Lats)

Foam roll both your glutes by crossing one leg of the other, lean to either side and get creative! Slow controlled motion (notice where your stiffness is and spend more time on that area) this should be slightly uncomfortable!

Foam roll: glutes

Foam roll both your hamstrings (for more intensity cross one leg over the other and rollout one at a time) slow controlled motion (notice where your stiffness is and spend more time on that area) this should be slightly uncomfortable!

Foam roll: hamstrings

Foam roll both your calves (for more intensity cross one leg over the other and rollout one at a time) slow controlled motion (notice where your stiffness is and spend more time on that area) this should be slightly uncomfortable!

Also: you can turn (as you would with your IT band) and roll the side of your calves out (this is painful)

Also: you can roll your shins out on top of roller. This is also very painful (tread lightly)

Foam roll: calves

Foam roll both your IT BANDS slow controlled motion (notice where your stiffness is and spend more time on that area) this should be slightly uncomfortable!

For less intensity place (non working leg) on the ground to control amount of pressure you’re putting on your IT BAND.

Foam roll: IT bands

Foam roll both your quads (for more intensity cross one leg over the other and rollout one at a time) slow controlled motion (notice where your stiffness is and spend more time on that area) this should be slightly uncomfortable!

Foam roll: quads

Foam roll both your inside leg slow controlled motion (notice where your stiffness is and spend more time on that area) this should be slightly uncomfortable!

This is a mf…… be careful LOL.

Foam roll: inside leg

Foam roll routine:

Dynamic warmup designed to be completed prior to any form of athletic training!

- Increase your body temperature and break a sweat 

- Warm nervous system / muscles up prior to lifting / performing athletic movements

- Warming your brain to body / proprioception / balance up as well! Let’s work💪🏽

- with band tied directly above knees 
- perform a banded lateral match with a slight knee bend 
- step + replace / 6 inch steps (each) 
- complete 20 yards down and back

Banded lateral march

Banded forward / backward March

Gain a rhythm

Perform an a skip forward pushing ground back and away from you 

Coaching point:

Big knee drive, produce force into the ground, Tall posture, Doris flex the toe, quick short and explosive!

A - Skip (Forward)

Gain a rhythm

Perform an a skip forward pushing ground back and away from you - maintain sprinting mechanics here (this will take some work) - push your self through toes in ground to go backwards💪🏽

Coaching point:

Big knee drive, produce force into the ground, Tall posture, Doris flex the toe, quick short and explosive!

A Skip (Backwards)

Gain a rhythm

Perform an a skip forward pushing ground back and away from you - Use your foot opposite of the direction you’re going to PUSH yourself - replace

Coaching point:

Big knee drive, produce force into the ground, Tall posture, Doris flex the toe, quick short and explosive!

20 meters each direction!

A Skips (Lateral)

Skipping hip circles

- similar rhythm / pattern to the A Skip
- draw as big of circle with your knee as possible 
- forwards + backwards 
- warming up our fast twitch muscle fibers 
- 2X 20 yards / both directions

Skipping Hip circles

- Using just your ankle joint / try not to bend at the knee very much 
- perform POGOS (90% effort)
- using just your ankle joint get max explosion vertically + explosion horizontally and explode for 15 yards! 

You should be WARM and ready to go!

Pogos

Jog for 3-5 steps and complete a hamstring March. Leg goes high possible

springy + active warm up! 

Loosen up and bounce around!

Hamstring Marches

Jog for 3-5 steps and complete a hamstring sweep

Dorsiflex the toe / straighten the leg + reach and sweep through / feel stretch sensation in hamstring. 

springy + active warm up! 

Loosen up and bounce around!

Hamstring sweeps

Jog for 3-5 steps and complete a lunge + reach 

Lunge with knee slightly above the ground / reach back as far as you can and open shoulder + your trunk / springy + active warm up! 

Loosen up and bounce around!

Lunge + reach

Jog for 3-5 steps and lunge + open.

Lunge while keeping your back leg straight and bring your inside elbow to the ground, reach up and open your trunk (mobility) / springy + active warm up! 

Loosen up and bounce around!

Lunge + open

Shuffle sideways for 3-5 steps and complete a lateral lunge

Tall posture - Big chest lunge each direction and push into a lateral shuffle / springy + active warm up! 

Loosen up and bounce around!

Lateral lunge

Dynamic Warmup

- Perform a high pull / as you would a clean without snapping under it!
- As bar drops / Catch bar on upper (or) lower thigh and perform a full clean into a squat

A1: Power Cleans

- Stack your shoulders hips and heels over each other
- Don't allow yourself to lean forward, keep your chin and eyes up
- Sit your hips back and down until you reach parallel 
- Push through your heels to stand up
- Control down for 3 seconds / drive up into next rep!

B1: Eccentric Barbell front squat

- Stand a few inches in front of the box
- Press hips back, lower down and jump on top of the box
- Land softly on the box
- Complete the movement by standing up tall before stepping down with one foot at a time

B2: Box jumps

- With barbell in a front racked position perform a lunge into a sprinter like stance / Drive up pushing through your hips into an upright position and use momentum of the squat to press weight into a shoulder press

- Perform 4 each arm

C1: Landmine lunge + Press

- from a sprinter stance
- Hinge at the hip slightly and jump into the air
- Cycle legs through as if you were sprinting!
- Focus on responding as fast as possible off of the ground!
- 4 each leg

C2: Split jumps

- From a kneeling position
- Hinge slightly at the hip / raise medicine ball into the air 
- Slam medicine ball down onto the ground using torque from your entire body

D1: Kneeling medicine ball slam

From kneeling position 

- Slam Medicine ball at max effort 
- Core engaged / Don’t allow medicine ball to break your posture 
- Tall upright posture / Rotate at the trunk + slam medicine ball

5 each direction

D2: Kneeling Medicine Ball Slams

- Starting in a standard planking position 
- Rotate your torso + arm and reach for the ceiling 
- Control slowly back down and alternate

D3: Plank Rotations

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