Name: Playbook - Eliza Katoa - Upper Body Push
Uploaded: 2024-04-14T21:11:07.693Z
Duration: 55 min
Description: Upper Body Push

Mary Hunsicker

Meghan

Brigetta Utai

Arms were toasted by the tri dips!! This one was good!!

Chelsea

Suzanne

Amanda

AMRAP 10 min time! Love the arm workouts 🥵

Cosi

Lola

Megan

Drenched by the time I got to the optional part lol

Claudia

Tauni

Braelyn

Serena

Heather

Welcome to your upper body push workout. 

We're going to work your shoulders, triceps, and chest today. 

PLEASE NOTE: 
- Do your best to lift heavy enough where you're able to maintain really good form but by the last 3-4 reps, you should be feeling like it's challenging to finish your reps. If your blowing through your reps easily, you're probably not lifting heavy enough. So push yourself but not so much that you're losing form. 

- Proper form is key to results! Focus on lifting with good form and take your time with each rep. Watch the exercise demos if you need more guidance. I can help you there.

- Feel free to modify the exercise as needed. I usually have an exercise modification listed in the desciption. 

- IF YOU ARE SHORT ON TIME: you can shorten the workout by doing less sets of everything and cutting out the burnout or shortening. You can still get a great workout in if you do 2-3 sets of everything!

Lying upper body openers on foam roller

Cat cow

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)

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

Start in a high plank position. Lift your hips slightly and engage your core. Walk your hands up to your toes and bend in half. Feel a deep stretch in your hamstrings. From here, walk your hands back out to a high plank position. Repeat!

Inchworm plank

Step 1: Attach one end of a resistance band to sturdy object about stomach level. Grab the other end in your right hand with an overhand grip.
Step 2: Next, turn around so the attached end is behind your back. Stand tall and bring your right elbow up so that your upper arm is in line with your shoulder. Bend your elbow 90 degrees so your forearm is perpendicular to the ceiling. This is the starting position.
Step 3: Begin exercise by rotating your forearm down so that your forearm is parallel to the ground, or until you feel a comfortable stretch in your shoulder. Slowly reverse movement back to starting position.

Band shoulder internal rotation (20 each arm)

Fasten an elastic band at elbow height. Grab the band, step away and stand sideways to the band.
Grab the band with your arm that is on the opposite side from the band’s attachment point. Keep your upper arm close to your side, and bend your elbow to 90 degrees.
Rotate your upper arm externally (outwards) against the resistance of the band, as far as possible.
Reverse the movement, and repeat for reps.

Band external shoulder rotations (20 each side)

- Start with your hands on a box
- Perform a push-up coming down slowly
- Keep your core engaged

Incline push up

Upper Body Push Warmup

- Start with your palms facing you
- Press the dumbbells overhead rotating your wrists/arms as you press up
- Palms will be facing forward at the top
- Reach full extension and reverse the motion as you come down

Half kneeling Dumbbell Arnold Press

The starting phase of a push-up is a plank, where you place your hands underneath your shoulders and keep your back in a straight line. Brace your core and rotate your elbows, so they’re facing outward about 45 degrees from your body.

Once you are set, pull your elbows to the back as if you’re performing a bent-over row. This sounds like an odd cue for a push-up, but you’ll find it activates your upper back muscles as your chest lowers towards the floor. Do not let your head or shoulders slouch forwards towards the floor. Rather, think about pulling your sternum in between your hands.

Once your chest has touched the floor, press yourself away and upwards by trying to reach your hands into the floor. Push yourself away from the floor, and focus on keeping tension in the upper back.

Form Tip: Stay rigid in the torso and be sure not to let the hips sag in the upwards movement of the push-up.

Modify on knees or on higher incline.

Band assisted plyo pushups (10-20 seconds)

Strength + Power Superset

Perform the two exercises back to back. Rest for 1 minute and repeat 3x.

- Place your hands on the front edge of the bench just outside hips
- Move forward off the bench with arms extended and shoulders down 
- Bend at the elbows to lower your body
- Elbows should bend straight back 
- Extend your arms engaging your triceps back to starting position

Bench dips

Place your upper back on a box. Bring your feet out so your legs are creating a 90° angle and thrusts your hips up until they are extended. Be careful not to flare out your rib cage.

From here, hold a dumbbell in each hand, bring the dumbbells together do they’re touching. Lower the dumbbells down to your chest. Keep your elbows in and feel your triceps work. Keep the dumbbells together and then keep pressing them together and up to the starting point.

Hip bridge hold crush press

Superset 1

- Start with your arms at about 90 degrees 
- Extend at your elbows bringing the rope down
- Spread rope apart at the bottom for a deeper contraction at the triceps 
- Bend the elbows and control weight back to starting position

Rope tricep extension w/ band or rope on cable machine

Lateral Raises

- Raise your arm keeping a slight bend at the elbow 
- Raise until you reach shoulder height 
- Lower down with a slow controlled motion to the halfway point 
- stop
- then raise your dumbbells back up 
- that’s one pulse 
- repeat for time or reps

Lateral raise pulses

Superset 2

Set a timer for 12 minutes. Perform the exercises below consecutively. Rest as needed and repeat as many rounds as possible until the timer goes off.

Barbell push press

- Starting an arms distance away from the wall
- Feet hip with apart and holding a ball at chest height
- Drop your butt back into a deep squat, keeping your chest up
- Drive through heels exploding out of the squat while tossing the ball to a target on the wall
- Catch the rebounded ball lowering back into a squat
- Repeating the movement

Wall Balls

- Lie on your back and go into a glute bridge hold 
- Then with your arms extended and palms facing each other
- Lower dumbbells to your sides opening your chest
- Bring dumbbells back together squeezing your chest
- Hold the bridge for all your reps

Glute bridge dumbbell chest fly

Finisher - 15 Min AMRAP (can shorten as needed)

Upper Body Push

Amazing!! Hope you and the family are well!!

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Brandi

This one took a little longer bc baby was with me, but it was so good! 🔥👌🏻

Nicole Thurston

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Great stuff! I’ve been working out 3-4 times a week for a good 8 - 10 years now. Your workouts are very diverse and are a great cross between being athletic and weight training. 5 stars from me!

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Tonya

Workout done with mom! Arms are jelly🥵🔥🔥

Julia

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Love the structure of these workouts 💥 Thanks Eliza! 💛

Perfect to get a great workout in on a time limit for me today! Thank you

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Christine

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Perfect for working out at home! Amazing app! Good to be back on the Katoa fit 🚂🙌🏽

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didn’t let me finish giving you all the stars 😬

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Perfect workout!! Loved it and that AMRAP!

ended the day with a great workout!! thanks, feeling good!

Pelepetua

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👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 glad that one is done!

Terevarevahaunui

My shoulders and arms were on fire 🔥 in a good way though 😅

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Mariah

The double push up to sprawls got me. Great push workout! 🔥

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I love the format of these workouts! The variety is just enough to keep my mind working and tough enough to keep my body working too.

Losa

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I’m not experienced enough to give advice. I thoroughly enjoyed this workout though!

Jordan Mills

My arms barely made the last round 😅🔥

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Such a good workout!! The strength challenge kicked my butt! 🥵

Jazmyn Folauhola

So fun pushing weight and challenging myself! 💪🏽

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Katie

Push days are my fave! Thanks for the amazing workouts!

Those 'to failure' moves making me reminisce about my military fitness tests 🥴 in a good way of course 😘

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So good! Upped my weight feeling stronger

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Jess

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Such a sweaty finisher. Stuck with 20s the whole burnout felt good

So good. I did the full 15 amrap 
So sweaty

Had to do this one again cuz it’s so good! 🔥

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Lesieli

I felt really strong today. Loved the until failure superset

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Got dat bicep burn!!🙌🏼👏🏼💪🏼

It was so easy to complete this workout, I felt like time passed by and I was in a competition with myself

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Making this up for missing it this week and I’m so happy i did

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Making me earn that Thanksgiving meal lol

Those push ups at the end 🥵🥵 Arms wobblin’ but so glad I got something in today. Thank you Liza!!

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Loved the added cooldown! Good reminder for me. Great workout!!

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I have like a mental "sweat meter" where I guess how much I'm gonna sweat in a workout... and everytime I look at the workout before starting, my sweat meter is always off- I end up sweating double the amount I anticipated lol

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That burnout was intense, could barely finish!

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