Name: Playbook - Flourish Fit - Wk 2 | Elevate Total Upper Burn 2
Uploaded: 2024-04-24T20:26:56.893Z
Duration: 50 min
Description: Wk 2 | Elevate Total Upper Burn 2

Mindy

Follow these movements to help warm-up & activate your muscles before you begin your workout.

Complete reps on each side 

Form tips:
- hand below shoulder, knees below hips
- place your fingertips behind your ear
- drive your elbow up toward the ceiling 
- focus on moving through your upper and mid back

All 4’s Thoracic Rotations

Exhale as you drive up
Inhale as you lower

Form tips:
• begin with hands below shoulders 
• maintain a neutral spine
• drive hips up as you squeeze your core 
• lower slowly 

❌ avoid arching your spine or letting your core collapse at the bottom of the plank

Push-back

Form Tips:
• place fingertips behind ears
• abs locked in 
• drive up, squeezing your upper back and driving elbows up 
• keep glutes flexed 
• hold for a second at the top before lowering 

❌ don’t lose tension in your core or it will place the load on your spine 

✅ do breathe through the movement

Back Extension

Warm-Up

Gym: Cable Machine
Home: Long Band 

Form tips: 
• lock shoulders back, abs tight, and spine is neutral 
• drive your elbows down and back 
• squeeze your mid back and release with control 

❌ don’t hunch your shoulders up 
❌ don’t use your whole body or lean back to row the weight 

✅ do lead with your elbows keeping them tight by your sides 
✅ do keep your chest open for better back engagement

Seated Row

Gym: Cable Machine 
Home: Long Band 

Form tips: 
• staggered stance, slight lean back 
• roll shoulders back and down to lock them in place 
• pull the cable/band toward your face as you pull your elbows apart 
• squeeze and release with control 

❌ don’t round your shoulder forward 
❌ don’t drive your elbows up

✅ do focus on pulling with your upper back

Face Pulls

Complete reps/time on both sides 

Form tips: 
• knees in 90 degree angles
• knee & toes pointing straight forward 
• lock in your core 
• during the hammer curl, keep your elbow locked in place
• press up directly over your shoulder 

❌ don’t lean to the side as you press 
❌ don’t swing the weight up 

✅ do keep your body in a straight line by flexing your glutes, core, and arms
✅ do control your body and slow down

Kneeling Single Arm Hammer Curl to Press

After the first exercise go straight into the second exercise with minimal rest and same with the third. Then rest once all exercises are complete and repeat for the sets given.

Form tips
• stand with good posture *shoulders back 
• keep your core locked in 
• keep a slight bend in your elbow to protect your joints 
• think about scooping the weights up 
• drive weights together and squeeze your chest at the top 

❌ don’t swing your arms 
❌ don’t use your whole body to raise the weights 

✅ do focus on isolating your chest

Underhand Chest Raise

Total reps include both sides (7 reps each way) 

Form tips
• stand with good posture 
• keep your core locked in 
• keep elbows locked in place as you pivot your forearms around them 
• squeeze and flex your biceps at the top before lowering 

❌ don’t swing your elbows forward
❌ don’t use your whole body to lift the weight 

✅ do focus on isolating your biceps to lift the weight 
✅ do go through the full range of motion, lowering the weights all the way back down before curling back up

Alternating Bicep Curl

Form tips
• shoulders back, abs locked in, and neutral spine 
• weights begin right around knees 
• lock your elbows into place my your sides in a 90 degree angle 
• kick the weight straight back and squeeze your triceps 

❌ don’t let your elbows come down/forward 
❌ don’t go into a bicep curl when you return back to the starting position 

✅ do focus on isolating your triceps 
✅ do squeeze and hold the weight at the top for a second while flexing your triceps

Bent-over Tricep Kickback

Arm Burn 🔥

Equipment: use dumbbells or kettlebells 

Form Tips: 
• begin by locking in - roll shoulders back engaging your back muscles, lock in your core, and stand in good posture 
• walk back and forth keeping your upper body and back locked in the entire time 

❌ don’t let shoulders round forward 

✅ do grip the weights tightly for better muscle engagement 
✅ do focus on your back and abs

Bonus Finisher 🧚 Farmers Walk

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