Name: Playbook - Caroline Drury - W3/D6 Hamstrings & Glutes (RPE 8.5)
Uploaded: 2025-10-13T05:44:41.026Z
Duration: 45 min
Description: W3/D6 Hamstrings & Glutes (RPE 8.5)

Was debating getting in there today…well I did and I feel great!  Happy Sunday everyone!💪🏼

Tina

Kimberly Yamamoto

A day dedicated to the back of the legs, the hamstrings, and the glutes.

3 sets
15 reps 
controlled tempo
45 seconds rest

-Take wide stance, toes pointed outwards
-Pump the legs up and down, making sure not to lock out at the top position
-Keep the knees tracking over the second toe. Don't let the

Dumbbell - Sumo Squat: Pump Reps

🚨 READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS! 👇

Set 1
10 reps
controlled tempo
rest 60s

Set 2 - Decrease the weight by 10%
12 reps
controlled tempo
rest 60s

Set 3 - Decrease the weight by 10%
15 reps
controlled tempo
Done

WARM-UPs:
-Warm up to a working weight, then perform the prescribed reps and sets

-Warm-up sets do not count towards your working sets

-Warm-ups at this range can follow this protocol:
1. Warm-up set 1: 5 reps at 50% of your working load
2. Warm-up set 2: 3 reps at 70% of your working load
3. Warm-up set 3: 1-2 reps at 90% of your working load

EXERCISE DESCRIPTION:
- Approach the bar so that it is centred over your feet
- Take a big breath and then lower your hips and flex the knees until your shins contact the bar
- Look forward with your eyes
- Keep your chest proud and squeeze the armpits to maintain upper back tightness
- PUSH into the floor with your legs to drive the motion, do not pull with the back
- Lower the bar by bending at the hips and guiding it to the floor
- The bar path should be straight up and down in the pull, and as you lower the bar

**For more thorough guidance on the deadlift, please watch the expanded explanation in the Strength Training 101 course. 

A list of substitutions is below if the barbell deadlift is not available to you or too advanced for your current abilities:

1. Block pull
2. Rack pull
3. Dual dumbbell deadlift
4. Banded deadlift

Barbell - Deadlift

3 sets
15 reps 
controlled tempo
60 seconds rest

- Keeping the bar glued to the legs, slowly lower the bar with a slight bend in your knees, "tighten the armpits," hinge at the hips and keep your back straight (neutral).
- Lower the weight until you feel a slight stretch in your hamstrings
- Drive your hips forward and use your hamstrings to power back to standing
-The goal of the Romanian deadlift is to extend the hips BACK as far as they can safely go, not to get the chest lowered toward the ground

SUBSTITUTION:
-Dumbbell Romanian deadlift

Barbell - Romanian Deadlift

A "superset" is an exercise sequence where you do the prescribed exercises one after another. 

In this superset, you will do:

A - Dumbbell - Glute Bridge
15 reps
controlled tempo - but with a 2s pause at the top!
No rest; go directly onto B

B - Banded - Quadruped Kickback
15 reps on each side = 30 reps total
controlled tempo
60s rest, then got back to A

Repeat this superset 3 times.

- Perform glute bridges holding a dumbbell at the hips

Dumbbell - Glute Bridge

- Place the band just above your knees
- Go on your hands and knees, back neutral, abs braced
- Keep your face down so your neck is in line with your spine
- Do not arch your back
- Take one leg and drive it up, maintaining the 90 degree angle and the foot should end with the sole facing the ceiling
- Lower slowly
- To increase the intensity you can hold the extended position longer and do the exercises slower

Banded - Quadruped Kickback

Glutes Superset 1

W3/D6 Hamstrings & Glutes (RPE 8.5)

Excited about starting this. I love the “newness” of each block.

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Wow!  15 reps is something else!  This first round whipped my 🍑

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Used Smith Machine for bench presses today because that’s all I had to work with…got it done.✅

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Good.  Worked with what I had…still got a good workout.😎

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Felt great!  W1 of Blk 8 in the books!💪🏼 loved this work out and glad I saved it for the weekend so I could give all my focus and time!

Struggling with 15 reps of chin ups 😂
Had to do 5+5+6 reps to get to 15, repeat 2 more times 🙃

Lydie

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I love this Glute/Hamstring workout Caroline & it’s efficient

Wow. That was a butt kicker in the sneaky kind of way!

High rep ranges for deadlifts are no joke🫠.

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Omg!  Increasing the reps is a real quad killer!  Loving it!

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Brace breathing tip made all the difference!

Jennifer

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Couldn’t bench press today with bar, but got it all done.🙃

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W2/D3 Cardio

I increased weights for almost everything except lateral raises. Tough! 
Can’t believe I am struggling with 10# 😃

A tad weaker on booty machine (barbell hip thrusts) since my quad strain, but I’ll get back strength soon enough.  Also, I’m learning to switch out lifts for a bit more challenge.  So fun!! Thanks for the formats!!🤗

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Why do I have such a hard time with chin ups all of sudden? 😅
Got it done ✅ anyway

Hard today😭. Tried to talk myself out of most of it, but pushed through so I could check the boxes.

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Love hearing your coaching in my ear every morning!

Amanda

W2/D6 Hamstrings & Glutes (RPE 8)

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Quads are burning!!!  The increase in reps with slightly lighter weight is killer!

Hearing you in my ear while increasing weights is such a help!

I remember the first time doing barbell split squats on the Smith machine & I thought I was going to die.😵‍💫. The bar was heavy, the grip was awkward & I wasn’t too flexible…today I probably could’ve gone heavier by last set.🤭
I’ll bring it up a couple of pounds next week.😤

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I didn’t see my notes in the previous logs - are they somewhere else?

So good today!  I haven’t bench pressed the last two weeks because gym has been crazy busy.  Today I could AND had my son spot me & I pressed 65 for 5 reps.😱. Take that stupid pull ups🤨. 😂😂😂

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The days you don't want to show up, do it! Went up on weights/reps. So glad I showed up! ❤️

Great!  I loved pushing myself on last sets of 15 to see how much weight I could do!💪🏼

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Scrappy…upper body needs lots of work, but definitely a little stronger.

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Made it thru block 8!  Now to go to my logs and see the bk 1 v bk 8 comparison… stay tuned

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