Name: Playbook - Flourish Fit - Wk 8 | Elevate Total Upper Burn 1
Uploaded: 2024-04-24T20:26:56.553Z
Duration: 50 min
Description: Wk 8 | Elevate Total Upper Burn 1

Annika

Nicole

Mindy

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

Complete for 60 seconds total 

You can use a resistance band (my personal favorite) a long towel/tee shirt, or a broom. 

Form tips:
- hold wide enough that you feel a slight pull (you don’t want too hold too narrow to begin) 
- keep your abs locked in and ribs locked down (you don’t want your ribs flaring out as you lift up and over) 
- breath through the movement

Shoulder Dislocates

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:
• 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

Warm-Up

Advanced: barbell or dumbbells
Beginner: dumbbells 

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 

*when using dumbbells, rotate the weights as you row up for better muscle activation as shown in the video 

❌ don’t let the weight swing away from your body/knees 
❌ don’t jerk the weight up 

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

Overhand Bent-over Row

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.

Form Tips: 
• stand with good posture, abs locked in
• feet planted hip width apart for stability 
• press weights directly over shoulders
• as you lower, slightly tuck elbows and then bring them forward in front of you 

❌ don’t jerk the weight up using your whole body 
❌ don’t arch your back as you press 

✅ do focus on isolating your shoulders and upper body to press the weight

Arnold Press

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)

Superset

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.

Standing Rear Delt Fly

Form tips
• stand with good posture 
• keep your core locked in 
• keep a slight bend in your elbow to protect your joints 
• lead with your elbow, not the weights 

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

✅ do focus on isolating your shoulders

Lateral Shoulder Raise

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

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: use cable machine 
Home: use long band 

Form tips
• shoulders back, abs locked in, and neutral spine 
• lock your elbows into place my your sides in a 90 degree angle 
• drive the cable/band straight down and flex your triceps at the bottom 
• release slowly keeping your elbow locked in place 

❌ don’t let your elbows come forward 
❌ don’t do half reps 

✅ do focus on isolating your triceps 
✅ do go through the full range of motion, squeezing and flexing your tricep when your arm is straight

Tricep Press Down

Advanced: full push up or modification #1
Beginner: modification #1 or #2 

Form Tips: 
• begin in a straight arm plank position with hands narrow & creating a diamond shape, neutral spine, and abs locked in.
• as you lower, tuck elbows as your let your upper body fall forward over your hands 
• drive back up when triceps are parallel with the ground (*doesn’t apply to modification #2) 
• you will feel this move more in your triceps than a regular push-up 

❌ don’t arch your back 
❌ don’t flare your elbows out wide 
❌ don’t look up 
❌ don’t do half reps 

✅ do think about pushing the ground away from you to help push you back up 
✅ do go through the full range of motion 

Modification #1
• drop to knees, still keeping your spine neutral and hips down 

Modification #2
• start on the ground and press through your triceps to lift your upper body off the ground - lower with control

Diamond Push-Ups

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