Name: Playbook - Hannah Bower - Day 8: 12 Days of Christmas Challenge
Uploaded: 2026-06-14T19:47:02.236Z
Duration: 35 min
Description: Day 8: 12 Days of Christmas Challenge

Kayla

7:12 this morning. Getting harder to shave off a few seconds!

Jenna

Felt this after yesterday’s makeup day! Got the heart rate up—perfect for a quick Monday workout

Rachel

Kirsten

Did the circuit 2x (did day 7 and then started over to do day 8).... Definitely feeling it today!

Katie

Short for time so this was perfect! Did the circuit twice

Lauren

Loving these workouts! Such a great way to start the day

Tracy

Yesssss!!! Knocked it out. 😏 Really loving this series!! Thank you ❤️

Caitlin

HERE WE GO! 

Jog/run/walk one mile OR 10 minutes of cardio or your choice. 

Modifications: stair-stepper, bike, rower, eliptigo, ski erg, jump rope. You can walk up and down your stairs, perform step-ups on your couch, high knees, jumping jacks

1 Mile OR 10 Minutes of Cardio

Recommended time: 2 minutes
Every 10-20 seconds switch from front plank to side plank 

Modifications: can go onto your knees, can place hands on a bench 

Substitutions: bear plank 

Form:
-start on your hands and knees. Hands are directly underneath your shoulders, tuck your toes underneath you 
-engage your core and your glutes straighten your knees by squeezing your quadriceps 
-keep your hips square and spine neutral. No arching or sagging 
-every 10-20 seconds switch what direction you are planning on (front/side/side)

Plank

1 rep= 1 right arm, 1 left arm, both arm 
Recommended reps: 3 
Recommended weight: medium to heavy!!

Modifications: alternating single arm shoulder press (take out the two arm press)

Form:
-in an upright seated position, engage your core and plant your feet firmly on the ground 
-if you don’t have a bench you can do these seated on the ground 
-press the weights to shoulder level 
-retract and engage your scapula, using your shoulder muscles press one of the weights overhead 
-do not lock out your elbow, keep a slight bend 
-lower the weight back to your shoulder 
-perform the press on your other arm.
-lower
-then press both arms at the same time
-keep your core engaged and torso still for any and all overhead movements

Kneeling 1-1-2 Shoulder Press

1 rep= 1 push-up, 1 clean or deadlift, 1 front squat, 1 push press 
Recommended reps: 4
Recommended weight: medium to heavy 

Modifications: go onto knees for push-up 

Substitutions: thrusters 

Form:
- Start in a high plank position with a dummbell in each hand
- Lower by bending at the elbows keeping your core engaged 
- Push up
- Jump feet in to a low squat position 
- Stand up cleaning dumbbells to the shoulders 
- Perform a front squat and then a shoulder press pressing the dumbbells overhead
- Reverse the motion and repeat

Man Maker

1 rep= 1 inchworm + 1 push-up 
Recommended reps: 5
 
Modifications: limit range of motion, can go onto knees for push-ups 

Substitutions: barbell rollouts 

Form:
- Begin by standing tall, bend at the waist and place hands on the floor
- Walk your hands out until your body is flat
-if you can, walk a tad further until the hands are a few inches out in front of your shoulders 
- Pause in the plank position keeping your core engaged 
- keeping your elbows close to your body, lower into a push-up, you should feel this target your triceps 
-push up back to plank 
-walk your hands back to your feet 
- Repeating the entire sequence for time or reps

Inchworm to Military Push-up

Reps are per side 
1 rep= 1 snatch, 1 curtesy lunge, 1 pulse
Recommended reps: 6
Recommended weight: medium to heavy 

Modifications: snatch to reverse lunge

Want to make this harder? Hold the weight overhead 

Form:
-start standing feet hip width apart, core engaged, chest tall, shoulders retracted
-hinge at the hips and bend your knees pick up a weight on the ground 
-in a similar staring position as a deadlift, extend your knees to standing while you pull the weight with your elbow leading the weight 
-once the weight is shoulder level, turn your wrist so that your hand is now leading the pull 
-press or catch the weight at shoulder level 
-with the opposite leg of whatever arm is holding the weight, step backwards and 45 degrees to the side 
-lower into a curtsy lunge 
-after one full rep, lower one more time for a pulse rep 
-press back to standing
-lower the weight to the ground 
-switch sides

Snatch to Curtsy Lunge Pulse

1 rep= 1 deadlift + 1 row 
Recommended reps: 7
Recommended weight: medium to heavy 

Modifications: can do rows first and then deadlifts 

Equipment substitutions: barbell, kettlebell, bands 

Form:
-start standing. Core engaged, shoulders retracted, feet hip width apart
- Hold the weights with your palms facing towards 
-Hinge at the hips and lean forward
- At the halfway point, pause
- With your spine and neck in a neutral position pull the bar or weights up to your chest and squeeze your back muscles at the top of the rep 
- Bring the weights down to
Shin level 
-perform a Romanian deadlift to come back to standing 
-repeat

Deadlift to Row

1 rep= 1 sumo deadlift + 1 squat jump 
Recommended reps: 8
Recommended weight: heavy 

Equipment substitutions: can use dumbbells, barbell, band 

Modifications: perform toe raise instead of a jump 

Form:
-start with your feet slightly wider than hip width
-core is engaged, chest tall, shoulder retracted 
-lower down into sumo deadlift to pick up a weight that is on the ground and between your feet 
-deadlift or squat the weight up to standing 
-lower back down to drop the weight 
-from this lowered squat position, explode from the ground into a squat jump 
-land with a slight bend in your knees, squat down to pick up your weight
-repeat

Sumo Deadlift + Squat Jump

Day 8: 12 Days of Christmas Challenge

Summer Sizzle| Week 3 Day 5| Pelvic Floor  + Cardio

Summer Sizzle| Week 3 Day 4| Functional Strength + Core

Summer Sizzle| Week 3 Day 3| Power & Athleticism

Summer Sizzle| Week 3 Day 2| Functional Strength & Core

Summer Sizzle| Week 3 Day 1| Power + Athleticism

Summer Sizzle| Week 2 Day 5| 40 Min Mobility: Follow Along

This is a challenging workout for gym users and doesn’t relocate a realistic gym set up. I had to skip the treadmill intervals because the treadmill location is not near a location where I could complete the other exercises.

Jessica

Dead and dying but happy about it 🥵 The sweat is pouring down my face

Rachel T

Erin

Summer Sizzle| Week 2 Day 4| Full Body Conditioning Flow

I love the combination of strength training with core!!!

Hannah

jessica

Taylor

Summer Sizzle| Week 2 Day 3| Functional Strength + Core

Veronica

I had to take a 2 day break after the week 2 day 1 workout because I was sooo sore! This was so challenging today.. those jump squats at the end wowwww

Alexandra

Summer sizzle| Week 2 Day 2l Metabolic Conditioning

Eugenia

Laura

Summer Sizzle| Week 2 Day 1: Power + Athleticism

Did this over the lifting since I’m having muscle fatigue

Summer Sizzle| Week 1 Day 5: Core + Recovery

Felt easy but I’m very sweaty so I know I pushed it! Quite pleasing to have it feel easy but still get some good work done

Morgan

I thought this was gonna be easy peasy but boy I was wrong!  Talk about a sweaty mess! 🥵 ♥️

This was sooo fun and wow dripping sweat yet again!

Summer Sizzle: Week 1 Day 4| Full Body Conditioning/Flow

Killer! Even got a dude fist bump in the middle!

Kelsey

Summer Sizzle| Week 1 Day 3| Functional Strength & Core

Loved this workout! Can’t wait to increase weight on those db thrusters 😈

My favorite!!! I loooove a HIIT workout and this checked all the boxes 🤩

Sweaty mess. I told myself “maybe 8 rounds”, but once I got there I knew I could push through. I modified the box jumps and push-ups on the 5h round so I think that helped give me a bit more stamina. But boy, by those last 2 rounds I was getting gassed. Surprised myself by getting Tabata done pretty easily too. Gonna be sore tomorrow!

Summer sizzle| Week 1 Day 2l Metabolic Conditioning

Took a week off for deload and the first actual week of summer and this was such a good welcome back! Looking forward to this program

A week behind and loved this one!! Great way to start the week!💪

Rose

Ended the week with this workout and it was the perfect start to the weekend 🙌🏼

NEW! Summer Sizzle| Week 1 Day 1| Power Athleticm

Glad to get this one done on the earlier side today!! Can’t believe I finished this program even with all the set backs! Can’t wait to start Enough tomorrow!!

Kathryn

RECLAIM| Phase 3| Week 4 Day 5| Upperbody DELOAD

Feeling good! Can’t wait to start Enough!!

RECLAIM Phase3| Week 4 Day 4| Lower Body| Deload

Reclaim Phase 3| Week  4 Day 3| Sprints + Core

So glad this deload week is lining up with my period 😊 makes it easier to convince myself to do a workout when I don’t it won’t be too hard.

Love those Z sits both challenging and provide lots of feedback

RECLAIM Phase 3| Week 4 Day 2| Upper Body DELOAD

A great deload day! Very sweaty, but felt good!

Hit a PR on the single leg press! Not too bad for a deload day!

Reclaim Phase 3| Week 4 Day 1| Lowerbody DELOAD

Felt stronger than I thought I would today! Was on vacay so didn’t do any of these workouts, but still did 2 rucks and 2 walks while away. Feels good to get back in to it!

Dedra

RECLAIM| Phase 3| Week 3 Day 5| Upperbody Athletic + Power

Felt good to crush this workout before vacay! This week lined up perfectly with my cycle so feeling extra strong 💪🏼💪🏼

Did nooooot want to move today but turned my brain off and got after it. Feeling better than when I started for sure

Pleasantly surprised with my increase and weight and performance all around 🤩

RECLAIM Phase3| Week 3 Day 4| Lower Body Athleticism + Power

I did the warm up, 8k + 9 min sprints and the core exercises. I'm exhausted and happy for it!. 🤜🏻🤛🏻

Completed last night but forgot to finish in app. 12mph is VERY fast for my little legs to go but I DID do it 🏃🏻‍♀️💨

lol she said, “sorry if these rolling V-ups give you ptsd” 😂

Reclaim Phase 3| Week 3 Day 3| Sprints + Core

Upper body is never my fave but I love this workout!

Deja

RECLAIM Phase 3| Week 3 Day 2| Upper Body Strength + Power

Upped my weights in most of the exercises and still felt like I could’ve gone heavier! Feeling goooooddd today!!

🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Opted for Spanish squats. My quads are on fire!!

Michelle 

Sweaty 😓 great one for the middle of the week

Reclaim Phase 3| Week 3 Day 1| Lowerbody Strength + Power

I am getting better at it and upping the weight in some including landmine ones.

Dominique

The around the world lateral shuffle I find fun to do 😁

RECLAIM| Phase 3| Week 2 Day 5| Upperbody Athletic + Power

I enjoyed it. Intense and simple at the same time.

Didn’t increase weight as much as I feel like I could’ve because my knee was bothering me today but still felt good to get this one done!

RECLAIM Phase3| Week 2 Day 4| Lower Body Athleticism + Power

Couldn’t push myself as hard until the last 20 seconds since I had my 3yr old riding his strider and he wasn’t going that fast 🤣 but did what I could!! I loved it still!

Kayla 

I enjoyed core and cardio. Enjoyed most of it.

Julia

Reclaim Phase 3| Week 2 Day 3| Sprints + Core

I am enjoying it and learning about getting more comfortable and confident in the movements while being stacked.

My push presses are feeling so much better 💪🏽🔥

RECLAIM Phase 3| Week 2 Day 2| Upper Body Strength + Power

I just got done with reclaim you march challenge and was wanting more workouts from Hannah! It was great!! I loved it. Although I have bands at home, my gym doesn’t have the bands like in her videos so I’ll have to bring mine from home next time! I did everything without bands at a slower tempo and I just love love loved it!! Soo good!! 10/10 recommend!

It’s been really hard mentally to stay consistent recently. I’m so glad I convinced myself to just do it today! Felt so good!

I definitely feel it in the glutes and certain areas. I took my time in the exercise. I enjoyed it until the end.

Reclaim Phase 3| Week 2 Day 1| Lowerbody Strength + Power

Courtney

I enjoyed learning new things and took my time on this one.

Whew! Always a little rough doing new exercises, the workout doesn’t feel as smooth but I’m excited to keep going and improving on everything! Felt good to move today, listened to my body and had an unplanned rest day yesterday.

Reclaim Phase 3| Week 1 Day 1| Lowerbody Strength + Power

Loving the little changes in phase 3! Felt really good today!

I enjoyed the upper body and things changed up. I also enjoy the stretches and cool down.

One of the best upper body workouts! 🤜🏻🤛🏻

RECLAIM| Phase 3| Week 1 Day 5| Upperbody Athletic + Power

Did not want to workout today but so glad I did!!

I enjoy lower body and I find it helpful.

RECLAIM Phase3| Week 1 Day 4| Lower Body Athleticism + Power

What a great workout, I also did the running twice! Inspired 🫶🏻

Wow that was good! Did 2 rounds of the treadmill work 👌🏻

Okay those rolling v ups did piss me off at first but once I got in motion no one could tell me shhhhh 🤪🤘🏻
I did struggle to roll from Superman back to my right side without a little finger push but I’ll work on it

Reclaim Phase 3| Week 1 Day 3| Sprints + Core

Felt good to get this done today! Definitely didn’t get as many workouts in this week as I had hoped, but next week is a new week!

I'm seeing some muscles 😱😍 I'm feeling so strong girls!!!

So loved every second of that. Feel so powerful!!!

RECLAIM Phase 3| Week 1 Day 2| Upper Body Strength + Power

We just did a little bit of errry thang today. Finally got connected with me PF which was really cool and strange at the same time.

Optional| HIIT & Mobility/Recovery

Some are challenging but I really enjoyed it.

Much needed core workout after week I had

Ooohh weee.  First time doing this and it has some really sneaky tough moves!  May be a new fave workout.

Reclaim| Bonus Advanced Deep Core (optional)

Reclaim phase 2| Week 4 Day 3| Deep Core + Cardio

My kids were screaming the entire workout but I still feel better getting it done! Here’s to a quick and easy bedtime😅

Shelby

Kept it about the same as last week as I found I had a bit more in the tank than I thought I did coming into my workout today so I increased sets and reps where I felt it and got a god sweat in!

Thank goodness it’s de load on spring break! Working out with 4 under 6 isn’t not easy 😅

Zarah

Reclaim phase 2| Week 4 Day 1| Lower Body Strength| Deload

Hey I finally tried the deficit with the box, instead of grabbing my leg and hey it felt so good. I was able to do it with great balance and form. 🤜🏻🤛🏻

Got it done and feeling great! This might be my favorite routine of this phase

Lowered the weights and heights but it all still felt good!

RECLAIM Phase2| Week 4 Day 4| Lower Body Athleticism| Deload

RECLAIM| Phase 2| Week 4 Day 5| Athletic Upperbody| deload

Might be lower weights and less reps, but she still will make ya sweat!

Decreased sets but kept weights and reps about the same and am already shaky 🤪

RECLAIM Phase 2| Week 4 Day 2| Upper Body Strength| Deload

These kinds of workouts make me feel like a professional athlete 🤜🏻🤛🏻 I love it.

RECLAIM| Phase 2| Week 3 Day 5| Athletic Upperbody

I enjoyed it and it makes sense to take it slow instead is rushing to maintain posture. I find it to be helpful is what I need.

Did not have time for the cool down today! But holy moly I’m dead 💀💀💀 woke up early and did a ruck with the hubby too. Great lower body day today!

That post period strength man 😂💪🏻😅

RECLAIM Phase2| Week 3 Day 4| Lower Body Athleticism

Completed yesterday but forgot to finish in app. Good day to switch things up because my body was hurting

This was a nicely timed workout as I needed to give my body a break from lifting.

Reclaim phase 2| Week 3 Day 3| Deep Core + Cardio

Added weight to my OH presses! Was a struggle at the end but felt good! My arms are dead 🩵

Overhead press has always been so hard for me to progress but I’m finally noticing improvements here!

RECLAIM Phase 2| Week 3 Day 2| Upper Body Strength

Whew! That was a good one! Was able to increase my weight a little in the DL and hip thrusts! 💪🏼

BECKY

Today was hard! I felt like everything was just a little bit off today but that’s okay. I still got it done and am proud I didn’t quit

Reclaim phase 2| Week 3 Day 1| Lower Body Strength

Loving the landmine rotational clean and press!! Feels so good to do.

Loved this upper body. Love the athletic days 🔥 💪🏽 Starting to do more cardio again. Feels great 😌

RECLAIM| Phase 2| Week 2 Day 5| Athletic Upperbody

Ran out of time and didn’t get to do the cool down BUT! This workout felt so good! Definitely feel stronger in most of the exercises today.

Jennifer

RECLAIM Phase2| Week 2 Day 4| Lower Body Athleticism

I enjoyed it from the beginning to the end and helpful especially after legs day the previous day.

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