Name: Playbook - Eliza Katoa - 05/07 Back & Biceps - Gym
Uploaded: 2024-05-13T05:28:04.628Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: 05/07 Back & Biceps - Gym

Nicole Thurston

Leilani

This one made me sweat and I usually don’t on upper body days. Thank you!!

Voni

Lay down a yoga mat or find a soft carpeted area for comfort.
Start on all fours on the ground. Make a tabletop with your body: Stack your hips directly above your knees and position your elbows, shoulders, and wrists in a straight line perpendicular to the ground. 
Lift your right hand up sending your gaze up with it and then follow your right hand down as you thread it beneath your left arm. 
Sink into the stretch by keeping your hips high while allowing your chest to rest on or come close to the ground. Push your hips back and up and keep some pressure in your left palm to avoid crunching your neck. 
Hold the position as long as you’d like—a few seconds up to an entire minute—and then switch sides. 
To come out, press firmly into your left palm and slowly unthread your right arm reaching back up towards the sky, the gaze can follow. Return your right hand down to the ground back in tabletop. Repeat on the left side.

Thread the needle (on all fours)

Setup: Get into a quadruped position with the knees under the hips and the hands under the shoulders with the spine in a neutral position. For the first position, place one hand on the upper back or back of the neck. Do not pull down or put pressure into neck with hand.

Action: Begin to rotate leading with the eyes, head and shoulder as far as possible down toward the hand. Then reverse the motion leading with the eyes, head and shoulder rotating upwards as far as possible. Maintain position of opposite arm with elbow extended while moving in both directions and keep the lumbar, thoracic and cervical aligned during rotation. For second position, change the hand position and place it on the low back with the palm facing up. Repeat the exercise with the hand in this position.

Return: Bring the hand back to the start position under the shoulder returning to the full quadruped position after the exercise.

Quadruped T-Spine Thoracic Rotations (15 reps each arm)

Lie on your mat on your stomach. Extend your arms out wide at shoulder level. 
Turn your head to look at your left fingers so your right ear is on the ground. 
Lift your left leg off the floor and bend the knee. 
Take the leg across the body towards your right fingers. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make it all the way, but try to pull away from your hips and twist your spine to enhance the stretch. 
Take a deep breath at the end of the posture before you release back to the starting pose. 
Repeat on the other side.

Scorpions ( 8each way)

Begin in a tall kneeling position with your knees and feet hip distance apart, toes pointing straight back, and hands clasped together and straight above your shoulders. 

Inhale and feel your chest lift, as if there were a string connecting your sternum to the ceiling.

Press down through your lower legs, draw your shoulder blades together, and lift your chest up. Shift your gaze up and back, without craning your neck. Move only as far as you can with control.

Hold for five to 10 breaths. On an inhale, return to the starting position, with control and leading from your chest.

Kneeling back arch with arms overhead

Child’s Pose To High Plank Single-arm Reach

Bend in half and place both hands on the floor. Alternate opening up one arm up and open that chest to the opposite wall. Alternate sides.

floor touch rotations

- Begin by standing tall, bend at the waist and place hands on the floor
- Walk your hands out until your body is flat
- Perform a push up
- Walk your hands back towards your feet reversing the movement back to starting position
- Repeating the entire sequence for time or reps

Inchworm

-Sit on your butt with your hands firmly on the ground behind you 
-Extend your body into a reverse plank position
-Hold for time

Mobility - reverse plank

- Start with your hands on a box
- Perform a push-up coming down slowly
- Keep your core engaged
- exhale and lift / lengthen your pelvic floor as you come back into a high plank position

Incline push up

Upper Body Warm-up / Mobility (1 round)

- Take a neutral grip on parallel pull-up bars
- Pull yourself up until your chin is above your hands
- Pause at the top of the motion and lower yourself slowly

Neutral grip pull-up (can use band for assistance)

- Do either version *watch whole video for modification 
- Grab the bar with your palms facing you
- Pull your torso up until your head is above the bar 
- Keeping your elbows close to your body
- Pause at the top and lower with slow controlled motion

Chin-up / Barbell Seated Chin-up

Pick ONE option

- Grab the V-bar with a neutral grip 
- Pull down towards the top of your chest
- Keep your elbows close to your body 
- Engage your lats as you pull
- Extend your arms to return the bar to starting position

V-bar close grip lat pulldown

- With your chest flat on an incline bench and a dumbbell in each hand
- Pull the dumbbells to your hips
- Squeeze your shoulder blades at the top
- Slowly lower the dumbbell back down

Dumbbell chest supported row

- Hold one dumbbell statically in the hammer position with your elbow at 90 degrees 
- With your other hand perform hammer curls

Dumbbell Hammer Curls with a Static Hold (30 sec each side)

- Begin with dumbbells in each hand and feet hip width
- Press hips back and lower dumbbells down until mid shins
- Lift back up to standing and press hips forward
- at the top lift your elbows up to your face and row those dumbbells to your chest

Dumbbell RDL to upright row

- Keeping your arms straight pull the rope down toward your thighs, engaging your lats
- Slowly reverse the movement back to starting position"

Cable rope straight arm pulldown

Straddle the landmine and face the plate. Hold the barbell with one hand on top of the other and row that landmine back to your chest. Control it up and down.

Landmine Row

Start in a high plank position and place the dumbbell between your hands in front of your face. With one arm, grab the dumbbell and bend at the hips and push your Booty back as you bring the dumbbell back to the middle of your feet. Then bring that dumbbell back to the middle of your hands by your face and switch side. Repeat on the other side.

05/07 Back & Biceps - Gym

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