Name: Playbook - Gritty Soldier - W2/D1 - Leg Day
Uploaded: 2024-01-20T14:25:56.635Z
Duration: 70 min
Description: W2/D1 - Leg Day

I feel my lower back now.  Good workout!  I definitely challenged myself on that one, especially with the squat and deadlift.

Mark

I pushed it harder here in week 2. This program has totally changed my repscheme and weights. Felt good to push hard, may not be able to run hard later but I think a good recovery run will do me well or I may not be able to walk tomorrow!

Ryan

daniel

Ferdinand Peelen

Shelby

- Walking lunges
- Air Squat
- Barbell Squat
- Leg Press
- Seated Hamstring Curl
- Seated Leg Extension 
- Hex Bar Deadlift
- RDLs
- Seated & Standing Calf Raise

- Lunge forward alternating legs
- Don't allow your knee to surpass your toes

Body weight walking lunges

- Stand with feet shoulder width apart
- Lower in to the bottom of a squat pushing your hips back and down
- Stand up out of squat to full hip extension keeping your chest up
- Your knees should be inline with your toes

Air squats

- Begin with bar positioned on your upper back
- Brace your midline and keep your chest up
- Eyes forward as you lower, sitting back and down
- Reach parallel and push through your heels to come back up

Barbell back squat

- Keeping your back flat against the pad
- Lower your legs towards your chest
- Drive through your heels to press the sled back to starting position

Leg press

- Sit in a hamstring curl machine adjusted to you
- Curl the weight with your hamstrings slow and controlled
- Pause at the bottom
- Slowly return to staring position

Seated hamstring curl

- Sit on the machine with the pad at the bottom of your shin 
- Extend your legs engaging your quads 
- Pause at the top and lower slowly

Leg extensions

Leg Curl & Extension Superset

- Keep your core tight and chest up 
- Engage your lats
- Drive through your heels
- Reach full extension
- Pause at the bottom to avoid momentum or bouncing

Hex bar deadlifts

- Start with bar in your hands as opposed to the floor
- Slowly lower the weight with a slight bend in your knees, bending at the hips and keeping your back straight
- Lower weight until you feel a slight stretch in your hamstrings
- Drive your hips forward and use your hamstrings to power back to standing

Barbell Romanian deadlifts

- Press up using your toes activating your calf muscles
- Lower slowly stretching the calf muscles

Seated calf raise

- Push through the balls of your feet
- Engage your calves as you go up

Standing calf raise

W2/D1 - Leg Day

It wasn't impossible, but it definitely hurt in a good way. I'm excited for what's next

Scott

Chris

W1/D1 - Leg Day (**BEGIN PHASE 1)

Ivan

Jaime

I hit failure so many times today I laughed. I'm smoked

W1/D2 - Chest Day

I've hit total failure everday during the supersets. Huge pump today!

Will

Great workout!  Just challenging enough without being too much.

W1/D3 - Back & Biceps

I was going to try to put this as my cardio before my lifting session to be an alpha chad but I just couldn’t do it, kudos if you can try this

Feels like I want pushing hard enough but the 400’s got me

Gabe

Thank God for my Garmin. I wish I had a track I could hop on to do these work outs but running around my local park hills and all will just help. Good cold wet run in the rain today

W1/D4 - Sprints Pyramid

Jack Banducci

James

W1/D5 - Shoulders

Reached muscle failure and a sick pump 😎

Sean

W1/D6 - Arms

W1/D7 - REST, REST, REST!!

It's was a good burn.  I could barely do any of the last superset by the end.

I recommend changing the close grip chest press to another exercise. Perhaps cable pulls for chest

W2/D2 - Chest Day

W2/D3 - Back & Biceps

Erika

W2/D4 - Cardio Focus

Great workout. Swapped machine fly for cables since my gym lacks that machine.

Donovan

W2/D5 - Shoulders

Love the pump arms are toasted and shaking

David

W2/D6 - Arms

W2/D7 - REST, REST, REST!!

W3/D1 - Leg Day

Ive hit total failure on this work out every week. I end up having to go to my knees for the decline pushups after the dip at the end

W3/D2 - Chest Day

Arms are shaking as I type this. Great feeling!

W3/D3 - Back & Biceps

W3/D4 - Sprints Pyramid

Fantastic! Sticking with the build programme till the end...

W3/D5 - Shoulders

Great programme. Happy to get phase 1 done!

W3/D6 - Arms (**END PHASE 1)

W3/D7 - REST, REST, REST!!

New super set was hard but I made it through my 4th round of dips before hitting failure on them!

W4/D1 - Chest (**BEGIN PHASE 2)

My legs were cooked afterwards, great workout 🔥

Carlos

King of the Yard baby. That left me feeling King of the Yard

W4/D2 - Lower Body

The cable raises roasted me right off the bat, felt the burn all the way through

W4/D3 - Shoulders

Solid trusted super value!
Like the shorter session format!

W4/D4 - Back & Biceps

Starting to feel a big difference. 🔥💯

Joseph

W4/D5 - Arms Day

Tried to hold race pace for the intervals and just jogged the rest periods

W4/D6 - 400m, 800m, 100m Sprints

W4/D7 - REST, REST, REST!!

W5/D1 - Chest

The first super set makes me contemplate life choices, hard. But I love it

W5/D2 - Lower Body

W5/D3 - Shoulders

Amazing as ever. Working my way through every single rep of the Build programme. It'll take as long as it takes but I'm getting it done 👊

W2/D1 - Leg Day

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