Name: Playbook - Brad and Jess Gouthro - Day 28: Squat Challenge
Uploaded: 2023-03-01T04:35:44.380Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: Day 28: Squat Challenge

Start with the Warm Up
• Finish all the reps and sets of each exercise before moving onto the next.
• Safety first. Don’t let your ego get in the way of common sense.
Finish with the Cool Down

Do this warm up before the workout. Complete as a tri-set, moving from one exercise to the next, without rest. Repeat 2 total tri-sets, then proceed to the workout.

1. Hold the ends of the jump rope in each hand.
2. With your feet hip-width apart, slightly bend your knees, and push the balls of your feet through the ground to jump up, point your toes to the ground, and with your hands by your waist, quickly rotate your wrists to make small circles to revolve the rope around your body.
3. Land softly on your toes, and quickly push off again from the balls of your feet. The idea is to jump over the rope as quickly as possible with a slight hop. Don’t think of jumping as high as you can, think about bouncing on the balls of your feet.
4. To make it harder, do double unders. This is when the rope revolves under your feet twice within one jump. Once again, the idea is not to just jump higher, the speed comes from the quick rotation of your wrists.

Speed Jump Rope

Tempo: 1011
1. Lie down on the floor, face up, with your knees bent, feet planted into the floor, and your hands behind your head.
2. Contract your abs and breath out as your raise your shoulders off the floor. The movement is short and is initiated by the abs, not from pulling on your neck.
3. Contract hard at the top of the crunch by exhaling all the air out of your lungs.
4. Under control, lower your shoulders back to the floor and repeat.

Crunch

10 reps/leg
Tempo: 1010
1. While standing with your feet hip width apart, perform the reverse lunge by contracting your core, then stepping back with one leg while lowering your body until your back knee hovers just above the floor with your front  knee bent at a 90 degree angle. 
2. Ensure you are keeping your upper torso straight and upright.
3. Press your feet through the ground to bring your back foot back up to standing. 
4. Alternate legs and continue for reps.

Alternating Reverse Lunge

Warm Up

Tempo: 1012
1. Lie down on your back on the floor, bend your knees, and plant your feet flat into the floor.
2. Keep your arms at your side with your palms into the floor.
3. Raise your hips and contract your glutes by pressing your heels through the floor until your body forms a bridge in a straight line from your shoulders to your knees.
4. Hold this bridge for 5 seconds and really focus on squeezing your glutes hard.
5. Under control, slowly lower your glutes back to the floor and repeat.

Glute Bridge

Tempo: 3010
1. Get in a slightly wider than shoulder width stance and hold a dumbbell vertically against your chest, using both hands to grasp the top portion of the weight.
2. Push your hips back, bend your knees, and lower your body as low as you can go while maintaining a natural arch in the back.
3. Pause, then push your feet through the ground to rise back to standing.
4. Repeat.

Dumbbell Goblet Squat

Tempo: 3010
1. Step up to the squat rack with the barbell racked at chest level.
2. Grip the barbell in front of you with a shoulder width grip, palms up, with the barbell resting on the front of your shoulders, elbows up, straight ahead, and parallel to the ground.
3. Contract your core and maintain a natural arch in your back.
4. To lower into the squat, drive your hips back and bend your knees until your thighs are at or past parallel to the ground.
5. To keep an upright posture and keep the bar from rolling forward, ensure you keep your chest up with elbows parallel to the ground throughout the movement.
6. To get back to standing, push your feet through the ground to rise back to the starting position.
7. Repeat.

Barbell Front Squat

Tempo: 3010
1. With a hip width stance, place the barbell across the back of your shoulders and grasp it with an overhand grip.
2. While maintaining a natural arch in your back and keeping your torso upright, lower your body into a squat by bending at your hips, then knees, until your thighs reach parallel to the ground or deeper depending on your mobility.
3. Rise back up to standing by pressing the entire platform of your feet through the ground.
4. Repeat.

Barbell Back Squat

Tempo: 10X1
1. Stand in front of a box with both feet firmly planted into the ground.
2. Raise your arms up, swing them back while pushing your hips back, then explode up by extending fully at the hips while swinging your arms back up.
3. It’s important to land softly with both feet on the box and stick the landing in a squat position, chest up, eyes forward, with your abs contracted.
4. Step off the box onto a shorter box rather than jumping directly down to the floor to minimize strain on the knees.
5. Repeat.

Box Jumps

10 reps/side
Tempo: 3010
1. Elevate the back foot about 6 inches high to increase the range of motion while placing the front foot 2-3 feet in front.
2. Keep your chest up so your upper body remains perpendicular to the ground throughout the movement.
3. Lower your front knee until it’s 1-2 inches above the ground or until your front thigh comes close to parallel to the ground.
4. Then press your feet through the ground to go back to the starting position.
5. Repeat.

Dumbbell Bulgarian Split Squat

10 reps/side
Tempo: 1010
1. Hold a dumbbell in each arm and stand to the side of a bench or step.
2. With your core engaged, cross the outside leg in front of the leg next to the bench and step up onto the bench.
3. Press down on the bench with your foot to bring your body up until your other leg is straight with the bench leg.
4. Reverse the movement by crossing the free standing leg behind the leg on the bench to go back to the floor.
5. Repeat, then switch legs.

Crossover Dumbbell Step Up

At the end of the workout, complete the cool down in circuit format. Repeat for a total of 2 circuits.

1. Get into a pushup position with your hands directly below your shoulders and your back flat. 
2. Raise your hips towards the ceiling, keeping your legs straight, and lower your head so your back and arms form a straight line.
3. Focus on pushing your hamstrings back and driving your heels down, while keeping your back flat.
4. Hold this position for the indicated time.

Down Dog

1. Take a large step forward with one leg and lunge forward, keeping your front knee bent at a 90 degree angle, with your back leg straight.
2. Bring both hands to down to the floor on the inside of your front foot. 
3. You should feel a deep stretch in the hip flexor on the front of your back thigh.
4. If you don’t feel it, focus on contracting the glute muscle on the back leg.
5. Hold for the desired time, then switch sides and repeat.

Runner’s Lunge

10 seconds/position 
1. Sit down on the floor with your legs spread apart in front of you.
2. Keeping your torso long and straight and your neck in neutral position, bend towards one leg, keeping your legs straight, and depending on your mobility, hold on to your shins or the sides of your feet with both hands.
3. Hold this position for the indicated time. 
4. Next, bend forward and grab one leg with each hand and hold this position for the indicated time.
5. Finally, bend towards the other leg, while once again focusing on keeping your legs straight, then hold on to your shin or feet for the indicated time.

Seated Straddle Stretch

Cool Down

Day 28: Squat Challenge

Amazingly comprehensive and fun workout. Feel so good! And roller perfect finisher.

Monique

Thanks Brad it was really a Great work put. I was curiousntonsee see how I would réel with a work out without a coach top show me live the first Time and I give you a ten very clear!

Hawa

Day 1: Can You Do It?

Great!! Fun Cardio, challenging, I loved it!

Day 2: Speed Racer

Day 3: 10,000 Steps (Active Recovery)

Day 4: Abtastic

Day 5: Get High

Day 6: 10,000 Steps (Active Recovery)

Day 7: Get It

Day 8: Keeping Up

Day 9: 10,000 Steps (Active Recovery)

Day 10: Back Attack

Day 11: Cardiooo

Day 12: 10,000 Steps (Active Recovery)

Jessica

Day 13: Squat Challenge

Day 14: Arm-Ageddon

Day 15: 10,000 Steps (Active Recovery)

Day 16: Jump Rope Challenge

Day 17: Bunz-A-Thon

Day 18: 10,000 Steps (Active Recovery)

I was not feeling like working out today, but I knew that if I just got through the warm-up, I would probably feel better and finish the rest of the workout. And it worked! I’m loving the app so far. Thanks Brad and Jess for all you do!

Abby

Day 19: 365 Challenge

I loved this one. Super fun - I adapted for at home using a band for eccentric pull up…not sure it worked exactly.

Great workout! I didn’t have the room to do drills so I did side-to-side skaters. And instead of treadmill sprints, I did sprints on my assault bike. 😁

Day 20: Never Quit

Day 21: 10,000 Steps (Active Recovery)

Day 22: Chestacular

Day 23: Are You Nuts?

Day 24: 10,000 Steps (Active Recovery)

Day 25: Abtastic

Day 26: Back Attack

Day 27: 10,000 Steps (Active Recovery)

This was such a fun workout. Would love to see more twitch sessions - or programs!

Day 28: Squat Challenge

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