Name: Playbook - Coach Myers - Off Season 6 De-Load Week 1 Day 1
Uploaded: 2025-12-08T14:31:11.486Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: Off Season 6 De-Load Week 1 Day 1

The next two weeks will serve as a de-load to allow your body to acclimate back to the volume and intensity of off season training. 
If you have not yet had your state tournament, continue to use the peak season program. 

Week 1: Acclimation
Day 1
[Warm Ups]
Sled Pull Thru & Row - 2-3 rounds
Shoulder Mobility
Pull Ups - 2 x 10
Glute Bridge - 50 reps

[DL Complex] 5 rounds
Sumo DL - 5-8 @ <50% 1 RM
Straight Arm Lats - 10
S.L. Glute Bridge - 10/10
Band Y's - 10

Split Squat - 3 x 10/10

Chin Ups - 3 x max reps

Stability Alternates - 3 x 20

End with 10 minutes
Light sled Drag
OR BW Lunges

[Warm Ups]
Sled Pull Thru & Row - 2-3 rounds
Shoulder Mobility
Pull Ups - 2 x 10
Glute Bridge - 50 reps

Pull a sled by extending your hips. Hold on to the strap but do NOT use your arms to pull, your posterior chain should do all the work. 
For the row, face away from the sled and sit as you pull the straps towards your ribs. Focus on scapular retraction.

Sled Pull Thru and Row

Start laying prone with arms out in front in a V. Lift arms with thumbs up 10 times, thumbs down x 10, arms bent at 90° x 10, then Superman press x 10

Shoulder Mobility Routine

- Grab a pull up bar with a medium overhand grip
- Lean back slightly and engage the lats as you pull your chin above the bar
- Lower under control until your arms are almost straight, but not to a dead hang un-packed position

Pull Ups

- Sit on the ground with a bench behind you, bending your knees so your feet are planted on the ground and holding a barbell resting below your hips
- Lean back so your shoulders are on the bench and position the bar above your hips
- Drive your hips up lifting the bar
- In the top position your knees should be bent at 90° and your shoulders should be near the top of the bench, with your body forming a straight line between them
- Pause at the top of the lift and squeeze your glutes
- Lower your hips slowly 
- Do not over arch thru the spine

Glute Bridge - Barbell

Acclimation Warm up

[DL Complex] 5 rounds
Sumo DL - 5-8 @ <50% 1 RM
Straight Arm Lats - 10
S.L. Glute Bridge - 10/10
Band Y's - 10

- Get tight to the bar with a wide stance and squat down and grab the bar (arms inside of legs) with an over/under grip
- Keep your back flat and abs engaged as you pull the weight off the ground, pushing your hips to the bar as you stand up
- Lower the weight under control to the starting position, or on max effort single reps, drop the weight after locking out at the top

Deadlift - Sumo

- Attach a wide grip handle to a cable stack and assume a standing position
- Grasp the handle with a pronated grip (double overhand) at roughly shoulder width and lean forward slightly by hinging at the hips
- Keep the elbow slightly flexed and initiate the movement by depressing the shoulder blades and extending the shoulders
- Pull the bar to your thigh until the lats are fully contracted and then slowly lower the weight under control

Straight Arm Lat Pull Downs

- Same technique as the regular Glute Bridge but with only one leg in contact with the floor and the other leg in the air

Glute Bridge - Single Leg

- 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

DL - Complex

- 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

- Grab the bar with a medium underhand grip
- Pull yourself up until your chin is over the bar
- Lower under control until your arms are almost straight, but not to a dead hang un-packed position

Chin Ups

- Start in a push up position 
- Slowly raising one leg and the opposite arm, holding each rep for 2 seconds at the top
- Beginners can do this positioned on all fours

Stability Alternates

- Load a prowler sled and stand facing it, either holding the pull straps or belt looped around the waist (Can also be done from the sled handles by gripping each bar with one hand and your arms straight)
- Simply pull the sled by walking backward with your torso upright

Sled Drag

Off Season 6 De-Load Week 1 Day 1

In-Season 8 Week 4: Main Lift

In-Season 8: Week 4 Accessory Lift

In Season 8: Week 4 Practice Room Circuits

In-Season 8 - Week 4 Prehab & Mobility

In-Season 8: Week 4 SPEED session

In-Season 8: OPTIONAL Size & Strength

In Season 8: Week 3 Practice Room Circuits

In-Season 8 - Week 3 Prehab & Mobility

In-Season 8: Week 3 SPEED session

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