Name: Playbook - Brad and Jess Gouthro - Day 29: DELOAD Arms & Shoulders
Uploaded: 2023-03-01T04:35:43.992Z
Duration: 35 min
Description: Day 29: DELOAD Arms & Shoulders

This is a lower volume deload workout to give your body a break from the higher volume 10 set workouts. These quick deload workouts will ensure your body does not become overtrained.

Complete this warm up before every workout. Complete each exercise with no rest in between. Complete 2 circuits for a total of a 4 minute warm up, then proceed immediately to the workout.

1. Start with your feet hip width apart and your arms extended out to the sides at shoulder level.
2. Hop to spread your feet wide while clapping your hands with extended arms in front of your chest.
3. Immediately return to the beginning position and repeat for reps.
4. If you have difficulty with the coordination, an easier modification is spreading your legs and arms at the same time.

Seal Jacks

Tempo: X0X0
1. With a shoulder width stance begin the squat by first bending at the hips by descending back and down until your hips drop below your knees while keeping the natural arch in your back.
2. The entire bottom of your foot, especially your heels, should remain in contact with the floor at all times with your knees in line with your toes.
3. Now press your feet through the ground to rise back up, fully extending your knees and hips and contracting your glutes at the top of the air squat.
4. Repeat.

Air Squats

Tempo: 1010
1. Get down on the floor with your arms straight, hands just outside shoulder width and directly below your shoulders.
2. Ensure your body maintains a straight line from your feet all the way up to your head. To keep your body rigid in a straight line, and reduce any sagging, keep your abs, your glutes, your quads, and hamstrings tight throughout the movement.
3. To lower your body to the ground, bend your elbows until your chest hovers just above the ground.
4. Contract your chest and triceps to push yourself back up to the beginning position.
5. Repeat.

Push Up

5 reps/leg
Tempo: 1010
1. Stand with your feet hip width apart then step back with one leg and lower yourself into a reverse lunge, until your back leg almost touches the floor. 
2. Press through the ground with your feet, lifting yourself up while immediately transitioning into a forward lunge. 
3. Try to maintain balance during the transition, without touching your moving foot during the middle of the movement.
4. Continue all the reps on one leg, then switch legs and repeat.

Pendulum Lunge

Warm Up Giant Set

Tempo: 3020
1. Bend over and pick up the barbell and hold it with a wider than shoulder width grip.
2. Be sure to keep your elbows into your sides and pulled back. By keeping your elbows back, this will help build the outside lateral head of the bicep.
3. Focus on dragging the barbell up to your neck, ensuring it remains in contact with your body throughout the movement. Remember, this is a dragging movement, not a typical curling movement.
4. Once the barbell reaches your neck, make sure you continue to keep your elbows back and down.
5. Then lower the barbell back down, keeping it as close to your body as possible, so the barbell brushes against you, not away from you. When you curl the barbell away from you, this will pull in the front deltoid of the shoulder.
6. Repeat for reps.

Barbell Body Drag Curl

8 reps/side
Tempo: 2010
1. Stand with your feet slightly apart while holding a dumbbell in each hand.
2. Lift the dumbbells up so one arm completes a lateral raise, while the other arm is bent as if you’re trying to cover your eyes with the inside of your elbow.
3. It should almost look like you’re pulling back on a bow and arrow, while keeping your palms facing down at all time.
4. Continue to alternating arms by switching the movements from side to side.

Standing Dumbbell Alternate Side Swing

At the end of the workout, complete the cool down in circuit format. For the foam roller exercises, complete each side for 30 seconds. Complete 1 circuit.

30 seconds per side
1. Lie down on your side, support your upper body with your forearm on the ground, and place the outside of your thigh on top of the foam roller.
2. Cross one leg over the knee of your extended leg and place the foot on the ground.
3. Lift the extended leg off the ground, contract your abs and glutes, and slowly roll up and down the foam roller from your knee to your hip.
4. Switch sides and repeat.

Foam Roller IT Band Outer Thigh Massage

30 seconds/side
1. Sit on the ground with your legs extended and hands behind you to support your body.
2. Place the foam roller underneath your calves while crossing one leg over top of the other.
3. Use your arms to slowly move your calves forward and backward over the foam roller.
4. If you roll over a particular spot that feels extra tight and tender, hold it on that spot for 5-10 seconds to try and work it out.
5. Switch legs and repeat.

Foam Roller Calf Massage

30 seconds per side.
1. Lie face down on the ground, with your quadriceps on top of the foam roller.
2. Cross one ankle over the other to provide more pressure on the quadricep.
3. Use your arms to slowly move your body forward and backward over the foam roller from your hip to your knee to hit all areas of the quadriceps.
4. If you roll over a particular spot that feels extra tight and tender, hold it on that spot for 5-10 seconds to try and work it out.
5. Cross the opposite ankle over the other ankle and repeat on the other quadricep.

Foam Roller Quadriceps Massage

1. Sit down on the floor with a foam roller behind you.
2. Place your hands interlocked behind your head, knees bent, feet planted into the floor, with your upper back back on top of the foam roller.
3. Press your feet through the floor and contract your glutes and abs to raise your butt so your upper torso is parallel to the floor.
4. Use your feet to slowly roll forward and backward on top of the foam roller over your upper back then stop rolling once you reach your middle back as you want to be careful rolling over your lower back to prevent injury.
5. Once you find a tight spot, hold the pressure on the trigger point, then release.

Foam Roller Upper Back Massage

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. Sit down on the floor with your legs extended in front of you.
2. Keeping your torso long and straight and your neck in neutral position, bend forward at the hips, keeping your legs straight.
3. Depending on your flexibility, grab your shins or the sides of your feet.
4. Hold for a good stretch.

Day 29: DELOAD Arms & Shoulders

More workouts from Brad and Jess Gouthro