Name: Playbook - Eliza Katoa - W1/D3 Back & Biceps
Uploaded: 2024-04-14T21:11:06.172Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: W1/D3 Back & Biceps

Welcome to your back and biceps workout. Get ready to work your upper body and get stronger!

Things to keep in mind for each workout in this program:
- Focus on performing each rep with really good form
- Challenge yourself with the weight you're lifting (the last 3 reps should feel challenging to complete)
- Be intentional with each rep meaning you're moving slow and controlled + connecting your mind to the muscle you are working
- Show up on the days you don't feel like it. Consistency is the key to change. LIttle decisions and small efforts add up to big results. 
- Stay positive and push yourself in the gym. Watch your body and mind transform as you focus on these things.

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 (5 each 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 (1-3 rounds)

- Position a bar in a rack to about waist height
- With your heels on the ground with your arms fully extended  
- Your body should be straight hanging underneath the bar 
- Flexing the elbow, pull your chest towards the bar, retract your shoulder blades
- Pause at the top then return yourself to starting position

Inverted row *modify by bending at the knees

Focus on pulling with the upper body. Squeeze that back and pull down on that bar to propel your body upward. Use your legs for more assistance. Try to relax your traps as you pull. 

*Modify by putting the bar up higher and modify further by bringing your legs closer to your body and keeping a 90 degree bend in your lower body.

Barbell seated pull-up

- Hold the bar with your palms facing you
- Keep your back in a neutral position bracing your core
- Pull the barbell up engaging your lats as you pull
- Pause at the top and lower with a controlled motion

Bent-over Barbell row *increase weight each round

- Grab the bar with your palms facing forward with a wide grip
- Lean back slightly to around 30 degrees, keeping your chest up                                                                                                                                                                                  
- Bring the bar down to your upper chest engaging your back as you pull
- Pause and return to the initial position

Wide grip lat pulldown

- Hold the dumbbells with your palms facing each other
- Curl the dumbbells up engaging your bicep as you curl
- Lower down with control

Dumbbell hammer curls

Dumbbell half bicep curl press outs

Superset

- 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

- Hold the dumbbell behind the Breckinridge with both arms 
- Hinge at the hips and come straight down 
- Keep the correct posture 
- Focus on a slow and controlled movement

TO MODIFY: do this without any weight

Dumbbell seated good morning

- With your chest flat on an incline bench and a dumbbell in each hand
- Raise the dumbbells out to the side in a lateral motion keeping a slight bend in your elbows
- Squeeze your shoulder blades at the top
- Slowly lower the dumbbell back down

W1/D3 Back & Biceps

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