Name: Playbook - Hannah Bower - Optional De-load Week workout 3
Uploaded: 2026-06-14T19:47:01.149Z
Duration: 20 min
Description: Optional De-load Week workout 3

These de-load workouts are so great for someone who is trying to focus on form before jumping into a program! De-loading this week and then starting the current program next week!

Krista

Eugenia

This workout you will have 3 circuits.

Circuits are timed movements. Meaning you will perform the recommended movements (for their recommended reps) as many times as you can in the allotted time.

Set the timer for 5 minutes and then go through the movements listed as many times as you can.

Recommended reps: 5
Recommended weight: light to medium 

Equipment Substitutions: kettlebells, bands, or Bodyweight 

Modifications: can hold weights down by your side 

Form:
-start standing with your feet hip width distance apart. Can go a little wider if that feels good on your hips
-start with a tall chest, ribs stacked over pelvis, feet firmly planted on the ground
-hold your weights either up by your shoulders or down by your side
-lower into a squat by hinging your hips back and bending your knees. Continue to keep a tall chest tall and your core appropriately engaged to manage pressure
-your knees may go over your toes, that’s okay, what’s important is making sure your knees point forwarded or outward, but never inward
-find your depth for your range of motion, pause, and extend back to standing

Goblet Squat

Reps are per side 
Recommended reps: 5
Recommended weight: medium to heavy 

Modifications: perform as Bodyweight, limit range of motion, hold onto a stable surface 

Substitutions: walking lunges, step-ups 

Form:
- Start in a standing position with feet firmly planted on the ground, chest tall, and ribs stacked over pelvis
- Keep your chest up and hold dumbbells at your shoulders (front racked) or by your sides (suitcase)
- Step a few inches back by firmly planting your foot on the ground and knee your knee down until both legs are at 90 degrees
- it is okay to lean forward in a hinge motion if you would like 
-toes and knees can point forward or slightly outward, but they cannot fall inward 
- Press through your glutes and keep your torso still as you push back to standing
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Reverse Lunge

Recommended reps: 5
Recommended tempo: slow

Modifications: hold onto a wall, can perform flat on the ground, bend over at the hips for stability 

Form:
-start standing with your feet firmly planted on the ground, chest tall, and ribs stacked over pelvis
-holding onto a wall or using your balance shift your weight into your toes to press as high up onto the balls of your feet as you can
-drop your heels as far as range of motion will allow
-without swinging your torso, press through the balls of your feet and up onto your toes as far as balance will allow
-lower SLOWLY as far below the surface as you can.
-the key for these are slow and controlled, range of motion

Toe Raises

one of the progressions for standard sissy squat*

Recommended reps: 5

Modifications: can use a cable, can use a band or multiple bands to hold onto, limit range of motion 


Form: 
-optional* station a band or multiple bands, at midline level height while your on your knees, to a steady object
-scoot back so that there is tension. The farther back you are, the more assurance you will get; the closer, the more Bodyweight this becomes 
-in a kneeling position with your chest tall and ribs stacked over pelvis, lean your whole torso backward as far as range of motion and core pressure management will allow
- it is very important to appropriately engage your core and keep your torso stable as you lower down 
-go as far as range of motion allows
-engaging your core, hip flexors, and quads keep your torso straight as you lift back up to kneeling

Body Weight Leg Extension

Lower Body Circuit

Set a timer for 5 minutes and go through the listed movements as many times as you can in that time.

Recommended reps: 5
Recommended weight: light to medium 

Equipment Substitution: kettlebell, band 

Form:
-in a standing position place your feet flat on the ground hip width distance apart
-stand tall with your ribs stacked over your pelvis
-hold your weights down by your side  
-without moving your torso begin to lift your arms laterally out to the side keeping a slight bend in your elbow
-do not lock out your elbow, keep a slight bend 
-once your hands are parallel with your shoulders, pause 
-then lower the weights down so that they are resting on the front of your thighs  like you did in the starting position 
-repeat

Delt Raise

Recommended reps: 5
Recommended weight: light to medium

Equipment Substitution: barbell, kettlebell, band 

Modifications: can perform kneeling or sitting

Substitutions: alternating shoulder press 

Form:
-start in a standing position with your feet firmly planted on the ground, chest tall, and ribs stacked over pelvis
-press your weights to shoulder level 
-keeping your torso still and core appropriately engaged press your weights overhead
-do not lock out your elbow, keep a slight bend 
-lower the weights back to your shoulder 
-repeat

Shoulder Press

Recommended reps: 5
Recommended weight: light to medium

Equipment Substitution: kettlebell, band 

Modifications: can use a bench to support chest

Form:
- Start in a standing position, feet firmly planted on the ground and chest tall
- Hinge forward at the hips by shifting your glutes back until your chest is at a 45 degree angle 
- with your weights in hand, wrists facing each other and weights pressed against each other, pull your weights apart keeping a slight bend to your elbows 
-the goal is to pull until the weights are parallel with your shoulders
-at the top of your range of motion pause for 1-2 seconds
-appropriately engage core during the fly motion and while in hinge position to manage any pressure you may have
-maintain control as you lower to starting

Reverse Fly

Upper Body Circuit

You will just need yourself for this circuit

Reps are per side 
Recommended reps: 5
Recommended tempo: slow
Recommended weight: none

Need a challenge? can add ankle weights or resistance bands. You can also do copenhagen planks as well. 

Modifications: limit range of motion

Form:
-Start in a side lying position
-Keep your hips stacked over each other
-Take your top leg and place your foot down flat in front your bottom hip. If flexibility doesn't allow, can be in front of thigh or knee
-Flex your foot on your extended leg
-Appropriately engage your core as you also engage your inner thigh and adductor muscles on your extended leg
-Lift your leg as high as you can, pause at the top, and lower slowly to the ground
-Be sure not to roll forward or backward and to keep your torso still

Inner Thigh Lifts

Reps are per side
Recommended reps: 5

Modifications: limit range of motion 

Substitutions: lying side leg lifts 

Form:
- Start laying on your side, stack your knees on top of each other in a bent 90 degree angle 
- keep your legs bent and feet on the floor
-with your top knee bent, engage tour glute to abduct or externally lift your top knee it as far as you can away from your bottom knee
-don’t roll forward or backward 
-lower slow and controlled

Laying Clamshell

Recommended reps: 5 per side 
Recommended weight: none 

Modifications: place feet on the ground, limit range of motion, perform just upper or lower body reaches 

Substitutions; marches 

Form:
-start laying flat on the ground with your arms extended straight to the ceiling and feet flat on the ground with bent knees 
-appropriately engage your core to lift your legs to 90 degrees in the air 
-keep your knees bent 
-lower one arm and the corresponding opposite foot to the ground or as far as range of motion allows while you manage core pressure 
-once you reach the ground or hit range of motion, engage your core to pull your arm and knee back to stating position 
-repeat on the other side

Deadbug

Glute and Core Circuit

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Jessica

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

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

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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

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Laura

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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

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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

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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 💪🏽🔥

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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.

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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 🤪🤘🏻
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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.

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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.

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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!

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Zarah

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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!

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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 🤪

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

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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.

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