Name: Playbook - Flourish Fit - Wk 8 | Day 2 | Back & Biceps
Uploaded: 2024-04-24T20:26:56.986Z
Duration: 50 min
Description: Wk 8 | Day 2 | Back & Biceps

Annika

Allison G

Follow these movements to help activate your muscles before you begin your workout. After the first exercise go straight into the second exercise with minimal rest. Then rest once both exercises are complete and repeat for the sets given.

Complete 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

Form Tips:
• abs locked in 
• drive up, squeezing your upper back
• then drive elbows into sides and squeeze your lats 
• keep glutes flexed 
• hold for a second at the top before lowering back down 

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

✅ do breathe through the movement

Lying Lat Squeezes

Activation & Mobility

Advanced: barbell or dumbbells
Beginner: dumbbells 

*the goal of the dead stop row is to lift heavier. Because the weight rests between each rep, you should be able to use a heavier weight than regular row. Challenge your strength, power & control  with this exercise! 

Form tips: 
• spine neutral, shoulders back, abs locked in 
• bar or weights are right around or below knees 
• drive elbows back toward hips 
• squeeze back at the top of the row and release with control 

❌ don’t let your shoulders round forward 
❌ don’t jerk the weight up 

✅ do focus on using your back to lift the weight with control

Dead Stop Bent-over Row

Advanced: full chin up or banded chin up 
Intermediate: banded chin up or floor assisted chin up 
Beginner: floor assisted chin up or underhand grip lat pull down variation 

Form tips: 
• keep your spine neutral, shoulders back, and core tight 
• as you pull, keep your elbows tucked close to your sides 
• keep your chest out with shoulders rolled back 
• release with control, keeping the tension in your back 

❌ don’t flare your elbows out 
❌ don’t round your shoulders & chest forward 

✅ do focus on driving your elbows into your sides 
✅ do go through the full range of motion, going all the way up and all the way back down

Chin Up (+modifications)

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

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, holding for 3 seconds,  and release with control 

❌ don’t let your shoulders round forward 
❌ don’t use your whole body or lean back to row the weight 

✅ do lead with your elbows keeping them tight by your sides

Seated Row with Pause (3 second hold)

Total reps include both sides (7 reps each way)

Form tips
• thumbs pointing up
• starting position with weights up and keeping biceps flexed the entire time, one side lowers at a time 
• 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 returning up

Hammer Curl, 2 Up 1 Down

Superset

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

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

Bicep Curl

Gym: Cable Machine
Home: Long Band 

Form tips: 
• stand in good posture with shoulders locked down and back, abs tight, and spine neutral 
• keep a slight bend in your elbow 
• lead with your elbows as your open up into the fly 

❌ don’t round your shoulders forward 

✅ do focus on using your rear delts (backs of your shoulders) 
✅ do move slowly with control 

Note:
Your rear delts are a very small muscle and often underdeveloped which means you might need to start with a very light weight to engage them and avoid other muscles in your upper body taking over. On a cable machine you can completely remove the pins to use the lightest weight. If it is still too heavy, use a light long resistance band and follow the home option.

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