Name: Playbook - Coach Myers - In-Season 8 Week 3: Main Lift
Uploaded: 2025-12-08T14:31:09.559Z
Duration: 75 min
Description: In-Season 8 Week 3: Main Lift

Main Lift

Deadlift - 5 x 1* concentric only (drop at the top)
- Band Y’s - 10

Split Squats - 5/5, 3/3, 1/1, 1/1
- Neck Plank - 30 seconds

Upperbody Push Pull: 5 sets
Close Grip Bench - 5,5,3,2,2
Seal Row - 5/5 pauses

Accessories
Serrano Press - 2 x 8/8
Reverse Hyper - 2 x 20

Deadlift - 5 x 1* concentric only (drop at the top)
- Band Y’s - 10

Concentrate on pulling fast off the ground.
Lock out and drive your hips to the bar. 
Drop the bar.
Reset and repeat.

Deadlift - Concentric Emphasis

- Place the center of the band under both feet and grasp the opposite end in each hand
- Raise your hands forward and up overhead, making a Y
- Lower your hands back down with control

Band Ys

Deadlift

Split Squats - 5/5, 3/3, 1/1, 1/1
- Neck Plank - 30 seconds

- Hold a pair of dumbbells at your sides
- Find yourself a step, box, bench or any other contraption that you can rest a foot on, it needs to be about knee height
- Get into a forward lunge position with torso upright, core braced and hips square to your body, with your back foot elevated on the bench
- Your leading leg should just under 2ft or so in front of bench 
- Lower until your front thigh is almost horizontal, keeping your knee in line with your foot (Don't let your front knee travel beyond your toes)
- Drive up through your front heel back to the starting position
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Split Squat w/ DB

- Start sitting on a swiss ball or a bench and walk out until only the back of your head is in contact with the bench
- Keep your legs bent at 90 degrees and bridge your hips up until your torso is parallel to the floor
- Keep your spine straight, do not bridge up onto the top of your head

Neck Plank

Split Squats

Upperbody Push Pull: 5 sets
Close Grip Bench - 5,5,3,3,3
Seal Row - 5/5 pauses

- Lie flat on a bench and set your hands at shoulder width
- Set your shoulder blades by pinching them together and driving them into the bench
- The bar should be directly over the shoulders
- Inhale and allow the bar to descend slowly by unlocking the elbows
- Lower the bar in a straight line to the base of the sternum (breastbone) and touch the chest
- Push the bar back up in a straight line by pressing yourself into the bench, driving your feet into the floor for leg drive, and extending the elbows

Close Grip Barbell Bench Press

- Lay face down on the bench 
- Row the barbell up toward the lower part of our ribs 
- Lower the bar down forward of your chest during the eccentric portion of the movement

Seal Row

Upper Body Push/Pull

Serrano Press

- If you do not have an actual Reverse Hyper machine, lay across a bench or a swiss ball with your hips and legs hanging down towards the ground
- Hold on tight but do not pull yourself forward with your arms
- Bring your legs up, extending them as you tighten your gluten and spinal erectors
- Hold at the top then lower slowly and stretch

Reverse Hyper

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