Name: Playbook - Hannah Bower - Lower Body 10.14.24
Uploaded: 2026-06-14T19:47:00.516Z
Duration: 45 min
Description: Lower Body 10.14.24

A perfect rainy day workout!! Didn’t need a lot of space which was just what I needed. Man, do those BSS get me every time! Whew! 🥵💛

Kathryn

Beatrice

Contemplating life decisions on those Bulgarian split squats 😂🤪🔥 one rep at a time 🙏🏼

Hannah

Shannon

The simplest ones are the most tough! 😅

Cheyenne

Taylor

Great start to Monday!! Especially after a long weekend of driving- this felt good even if bss are the 😈

Paula Kane

Progressive overload: adding weight to our main strength and adding volume to our accessory 💪🏼

This is a warmup to help get our posterior chain mobile and ready to squat.

Reps are up to YOU. Perform each movement for however long you feel your body needs it!

Recommended reps: 5-10

Modifications: widen knees as belly grows

Form:
-Staying in preacher child’s pose position, with shins flat on the ground, glutes to heels, chest to the floor, and arms extended out in front of you 
-rock your weight as far into your heels and down into your chest as you can 
-perform a diaphragmatic breath, exhaling deeply as you do this 
-then on your inhale shift your weight forward up into your hands
-repeat

Child Pose Rocks

Recommended reps: 6-8
Recommended band tension: medium to heavy 

Modifications: can hold onto something for balance support, can perform without band, can place foot on any stable surface, 

Substitutions: hands and knees clamshell 

Form:
-start standing in front of a stable surface (wall, bench, rack) with your chest tall, ribs stacked over pelvis and feet firm on the ground 
-place ab optional band around your thighs for tension 
-take on foot and press the balls of your feet flat against the safe surface so that your lifted let us bent at a 90 degree angle 
-hinge your chest forward about 45 degrees maintaining appropriate core engagement 
-keeping your hips and shoulders square to the ground (no twisting) begin to abduct your lifted knee 
-lift your bent knee maintaining its 90 degrees as far as you can, see if you can get it parallel with your hip 
-pause at the top of your rep
-lower slow and controlled

Standing Clamshell

If you want more support and education with diaphragmatic breathing, engaging and relaxing your pelvic floor, and engaging your TA correctly, then I HIGHLY suggest getting the pregnancy and postpartum education guide. 

Form:
-Start laying on your back with a block between your knees 
-begin by taking a 360 degree inhale.
-During the inhale portion of the breath, feel free to place your hands on the side of your ribcage and direct your breath into your hands (so your ribcage expands first) and then into your back (360 degree expansion)
-This will allow your belly to naturally rise slightly the last half of your breath while you deliberately and actively lengthen/soften your pelvic floor. 
-As you exhale, press into your glutes and heels to begin your glute bridge while also squeezing your knees together into the block, you will exaggerate the exhale sound and begin lifting/contracting the pelvic floor. This is the deliberate deep core activation portion. Remember that while the pelvic floor is beginning to lift, wrap your TVA toward the midline of your body as you zip it up from your hip bones to rib cage wrapping tighter as your exhale breath is coming to an end.
-The deep core activation starts from your hip bones and slowly cinches its way inward until the top of your rib cage is left to zip. It’s an even draw in of the abdomen.
-on your next inhale actively release and relax your pelvic floor lowering your glutes to the ground 
-The Intentional Core Breath slow, deliberate, and controlled movements. These movements should almost be exaggerated. Be deep in your breaths and strong in your activations. Do not rush this breath work.
-Perform for one to two minutes.

Glute Bridge + ICB

Corrective Warmup

Recommended reps: 5-8
Recommended weight: medium-heavy 

* don’t have access to heavy weights? Increase rep range to 12-15, add a pause, slow down tempo, increase range of motion, add half reps, add bands 

Modifications: limit weight, limit range of motion, squat to chair 
Substitutions: dumbbell goblet squat 

Form: (for more in depth see tutorials video) 
- Start standing in front of your bar or weights. - Depending on your hip anatomy, your feet will be anywhere front shoulder width apart or slightly wider than shoulder width.   -Toes are straight ahead or slightly turned out, but never inward -Think about ribcage stacked over pelvis keeping a tall chest.. Knees are aligned over your ankles.  - Begin to squat by hinging at the hips while you bend your knees. - Think about shifting your hips and glutes to the back wall and about shifting your weight into your heals, do not let your weight come forward to your toes. -Continue to press knees away from each other. Think about spreading the ground apart between your feet. -Lower until hips are parallel with the ground or as far as range of motion allows - As you stand, continue to keep your knees from falling inward, you can think about allowing your knees to push outward a bit. -You want to move in one solid flow. Chest + hips raise at the same time!
-Keep chin and head neutral throughout (no tucking or arching your chin), keep upper chest tall and neutral (no rounding)

Front Squat

Recommended reps: 10
Recommended intensity: be explosive 

Modifications: lower height

Substitutions: step-ups, squat jumps 

Form:
- Start in a shoulder-width stance, feet firmly planted on the ground, chest is tall and ribs are stacked over pelvis
- bend your knees and hinge at the hips to safely Jump on to the box or safe surface of your choice
-land with a slight bend to your knees 
- jump or step down safely to begin the next rep

Finisher: Box Jump

Reps are per side 
Recommended reps at heavy: 6-8 
Recommended reps at medium: 6-8
Recommended reps at Bodyweight: 6-8
Recommended hold: til failure 

Modifications; lower the box height, remove weight and perform whole movement Bodyweight, hold onto a steady surface 

Substitutions: B-stance squat, reverse lunge, single leg squat to chair 

Form:
- Start with your back foot on top of an elevated surface, it may be helpful to have toes tucked under 
- standing foot is firmly flat on the ground, core engaged, and chest tall
- hold the weight hanging by the inside of your thigh if you have one weight, if you have two weights hold on either side of your knee 
- Lower down pushing your hips back 
slightly (this is a hinge motion)
- as you lower keep your chest tall, you can hinge forward as long as core is appropriately engage 
- pause at the bottom of the rep 
- Push through your front leg to come back up
- perform reps until the recommended time is up.

Bulgarian Split Squat Drop Set

Recommend time: 30 seconds 
Recommended weight: medium to heavy 

Equipment substitutions: dumbbells, kettlebell, band, landmine barbell 
Modifications: sumo deadlift, goblet squat 
Form:  -Start with feet wider than hip width and toes pointed slightly out, initially start with your ribs stacked over your pelvis -hinge forward at the hips to have a forward lean (this will help target glutes) -squat down to grab your weight(s), keep your glute and hips low  -maintaining your hinge position, extend your knees as you push through your squat  -appropriately manage core pressure while in the hinge position  - Reach full extension with your legs  - Keeping a flat back lower weights to the ground

Prisoner Squat

Recommended time: 30 sec
Recommended weight: light to medium

Modifications; remove the weight, limit range of motion, place your feet on the ground

Substitutions: sit-ups, eccentric sit-ups, crunches 

Form:
-start seated with your weight shifted towards your upper glutes/sacrum 
-keep your chest tall and core appropriately engaged to manage any pressure you may have
-hold your weight by your chest
-pretend a sting is attached to your chest  and someone is pulling it to keep it upright
-bend your knees at a 90 degree angle and lift them a few inches off the ground 
-twist your entire torso to one side as if to touch your elbow to the ground
-switch sides 
-repeat

Russian Twist

Recommended breathe length: 5 seconds 
Recommended time: 30 sec

Modifications : place feet flat on the ground 

Form:  -start laying on the ground with your heels firmly digging into whatever safe surface you have available (steps and low bench work great)
-perform a pelvic tilt, tilt your hips forward (see tutorial highlight for more in depth review) -lift your hips off the ground while pushing your heels down and  maintaining a pelvic tilt  -Appropriately engage your core and your glutes. Feel it in your hamstrings? Tilt your pelvis upwards) -lift as high as you can off the ground, even if it is just an inch or two. Think about driving your feet down to earths core.  -perform a full diagrammatic breath for 5 seconds as you drive your heels down 
-briefly relax your engagement before you begin your next breath

ISO Hamstring Hold

Triset: prisoner squat, Russian twist, iso hamstring hold

Lower Body 10.14.24

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!!!

jessica

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!!

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 🩵

Lauren

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.

Lower Body 10.14.24

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