Name: Playbook - Eliza Katoa - Lower Body Pull
Uploaded: 2024-04-04T21:40:52.934Z
Duration: 30 min
Description: Lower Body Pull

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Tips for Maximizing Your Workouts:

Focus on Form: Proper form is crucial for preventing injuries and effectively targeting the intended muscles. Prioritize quality over quantity in every repetition.

Maintain Muscle Tension: Keep your muscles under tension throughout the entire range of motion. This ensures maximum engagement and promotes muscle growth and strength development.

Avoid Rushing: Resist the urge to rush through your workout. Slow and controlled movements allow for better muscle activation and help you maintain proper form.

Lift to Failure: Push yourself to the point of muscular failure on your last set of each exercise. This means performing repetitions until you can no longer complete another with good form. This technique stimulates muscle growth and improves strength.

Lift Heavy, but Controlled: Challenge yourself with weights that are heavy enough to induce fatigue within the desired rep range, but ensure that you can maintain control throughout the movement. Avoid sacrificing form for heavier weights.

Give Your Best Effort: Approach each workout with determination and focus. Give it your all and push yourself to improve with every session. Consistent effort is key to achieving your fitness goals.

Remember, consistency and dedication are essential for progress. Stay committed to your workout routine, listen to your body, and always prioritize safety and proper technique.

Deep squat hip openers

Hold a deep squat position and grab your toes. From here lift your hips up and back down so you’re in the deep squat position again. Keep lifting and lowering your hips to stretch out your hamstrings and low back.

Deep squat toe hold hip lift

In a seated position, lean back on your hands, and bring both feet close to your body with your knees up. From here, you will lean both knees to one side and let them fall gently to the ground. Then you will pick them up and let them drop to the other side.

Leaning back 90-90 hip openers

Alternate pulling your knee to your chest.

High knee pulls

Standing Hip openers

Alternating leg swing toe touch

Superman reaches

- Stand with your legs shoulder width apart
- Flex your knee and kick your heel up toward your glutes
- As one leg comes down, flex your other knee and kick your other foot up toward your glutes 
- Swing your arms as if you were jogging
- Increase speed as you feel comfortable

Butt kicks

- Run in place with high knees for time or reps
- Increase speed as you feel comfortable

High knee toe taps on bench

Lower Body Warm-Up

- Stand in a wide toed out stance with a dumbbell in each hand in front of you
- Lower into a squat touching the dumbbells to the ground while keeping your back straight
- Stand up to full extension

Dumbbell sumo deadlift

- Support upper back on a bench and the dumbbells across your hips
- With both knees bent to 90 degrees 
- Lower your glutes to the floor and press back up to starting 
- hold for 3 seconds at the top

Dumbbell hip thrusts with 3-seconds hold

B-Stance Hip Thrust (10 per side)

With one leg bend on a bench, perform a dumbbell RDL. Do the movement in a slow and controlled motion focusing your weight on the leg that is working. Return to the initial pose and repeat. Do the same reps with the other leg.

FORM TIPS: 
Hinge forward at the hips, keeping your spine long and straight as your torso reaches toward the floor. Grip the barbell with both hands at shoulder-distance apart, plugging your shoulders back and down to secure your spine and brace your core. Look down and slightly forward to align your neck with the rest of your back and avoid hyperextension.
Tighten your glutes, hamstrings and core and drive your feet into the ground to stand up straight, lifting the weight to about your upper thighs. Squeeze your glutes and lock out your hips at the top.

Bench assisted single-leg RDL (10 each)

- Hold the dumbbell between both feet
- Bring the dumbbell toward your glutes 
- Focus on the mind muscle connection with your hamstrings

Dumbbell hamstring curls (10-15 reps)

- get into a glute bridge position 
- hold one dumbbell between both hands 
- Keep a slight bend at the elbow as you lower dumbbell back 
- Focus on engaging your lats as your pull the dumbbell forward
- bring one leg back so it meets the dumbbell
- exhale 
- engage the core and slowly bring that dumbbell and leg back to their original position keep alternating legs

Dumbbell pullover glute bridge march

20 Minutes AMRAP

- Position yourself on your elbows and knees, with a band just above your knees
- Keeping your knee in a bent position, hips squared
- Kick your leg back and up toward the ceiling, engaging your glutes 
- Return to starting position
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Exhale as you kick and engage the core.

Decline Banded donkey kicks (20 each)

Engage your core, hold that dumbbell between your calf muscle and hamstring and keep your leg bent at a 90 degree angle. From there stay on all four and lift that leg out then bring it back down. Exhale as you lift, squeeze you glute at the top of the move and repeat.

Dumbbell Fire Hydrant (15 each leg)

- Holding the weight with your arms extended
- Bring your torso up, taking the weight overhead
- Lower with a slow controlled movement keeping your core engaged

DB straight arm sit-up

OPTIONAL Finisher (1 ROUND)

Lower Body Pull

Estefi

30 MIN OPTION: Upper Body Push

Lower Body Push

Upper Body Push

3 mile walk, 30 min option but had to stop due to time, left two sets off. So good though.

Tiffany

Wasn’t feeling well but still got it done today since i missed yesterday 🥵🔥

Kristen

Upper Body Pull

Dead! Oh man that was hard but so good! Killer workout 🔥

Makayla Bateman

Tonya

Couldn’t do run for burnout, my hips are super tight.

30 MIN OPTION: Full Body

Lower body is shaking 🫨🥵🥵🥵🔥 lol! Great way to start my day  💪🏽

Suva

So good, .87 mile and three rounds of AMRAP. Had to go just to 30 min.

Full Body Killer

🥵🥵🥵🔥🔥🔥 great way to end the week!

Saane

Took a few days off! Great getting back into it

Marybeth

Brigetta Utai

30 min option, still great!!! 2 mile walk with pups beforehand.

Full Body

Suzanne

Sheila Aguilar

Elaine

This workout made me feel 100% much better!

Claudia

I did Friday and Saturday 30 min options today because I’m starting my long runs on saturdays😬💪🏾🏃🏾‍♀️

Kamry

Grateful for a 30 minute version on weeks I’m struggling to workout. Loved it and I feel so much better than I did 30 minutes ago ❤️

Loved having a 30 min option today! The Bulgarian split squats about did me in 😅

Chelsea

Lower body push

Love the 30 min. when short on time! I still get a good workout🙏🏽

Vika

Loww Uluave

I LOVE YOUR WORKOUTS! Happy to be back🥳

Cosi

Love these short options on the days i hit the snooze button

Took a week off for vacation and it was hard to get back into it but loved this work out and I feel so much better now that I got it done!

Stacey Vance

Angie

Got it in before midnight🙌🏾💪🏾✅

2nd work out of the day. I’m done. Thanks Eliza!

Love the 30-min option. Still very diverse and burns like crazy

Hana

💪 40 min total for the rounds (including 15 min warm up) 

👟 8:50 mile time (at the end of the workout)

7:15 3/4 mile with jogger and son riding his bike up hill for a bit. Great workout coming back after a week off from illness

Did this Friday because I’m doing my long run tomorrow💪🏾✅

Chrissy

Great arm workout! Running 3/4 mile afterwards

Lauren

First workout since I tore my MCL and this was exactly what I needed!

Dharma Va’ai

Julia

This felt good this morning after mobility day yesterday! Almost caught up for the week. 😁

Did 2 miles before my workout and I’m pooooped 😵🥵🔥 All caught up now 😁💪🏽 letssss gooo!!

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