Name: Playbook - Brad and Jess Gouthro - Day 34: Metabolic Burn Complexes #5
Uploaded: 2023-03-01T00:04:12.147Z
Duration: 30 min
Description: Day 34: Metabolic Burn Complexes #5

Start with the warm up, then proceed to Complex Circuit A. There are no breaks between exercises during a complex circuit. You don’t even get to drop the barbell or dumbbell between exercises. Therefore, select a weight for your most difficult exercise that you can lift for the prescribed rep count. You will use this weight for the entire complex as the weight won’t leave your hands. To be completed in a circuit. Complete each sequentially, no rest between exercises. Rest 120 seconds after the circuit. Repeat 3 more times. After the final circuit, complete the Ignite It Up exercise. Then complete circuit B the same way as indicated. Finish with the Afterburner Finisher.

Complete in circuit format with no rest between exercises. Repeat 1 time for a total of 2 circuits.

1. Stand with your feet together and arms down by your sides.
2. In one motion, jump up and out landing your feet just outside hip width, while simultaneously raising your arms out to the side and over your head.
3. Try to touch your hands above your head. 
4. Then immediately return back to the starting position and continue for reps.

Jumping Jacks

20 reps/leg
1. Get in push up position with your hands directly below your shoulders, core tight, and your legs straight behind you.
2. Drive one knee towards your chest, while maintaining a flat back, then reverse it back to the starting position.
3. Repeat with your other leg.
4. Alternate back and forth as fast as you can maintaining good form.

Mountain Climbers

Dynamic Warm Up Flow

Afterburn 2.0 Warm Up

Complete the 4 exercises in Complex A in circuit format, with no rest between the exercises. It also important to keep the weight in your hands as you transition into each exercise within the complex circuit. Rest for 2 minutes after completing the complex circuit. Repeat for a total of 4 complex circuits.

Tempo: 10X0
1. With a shoulder width stance, grip a barbell with a just outside shoulder grip, and place the barbell on the front of your shoulders, in the front rack position, with your elbows pointing forward and triceps parallel to the floor.  
2. Slightly dip down by bending at your waist, then knees, then explosively extend and thrust your hips forward as you push your feet through the ground to stand back up while simultaneously pressing the barbell straight up over your head.
3. Under control, lower the barbell back to starting position and repeat the same movement.

Barbell Push Press

Tempo: 2010
1. With a hip width stance, hold a barbell with a shoulder width overhand grip.  
2. While maintaining a flat back, bend forward at your hips, then slightly bend your knees as you lower your torso to almost parallel to the ground.
3. Initiate the row by first contracting your back muscles, then bend your elbows, and squeeze your shoulder blades together and you pull the barbell to your chest.
4. Your upper torso should remain locked down without using any swaying motion to move the barbell.
5. Squeeze your shoulders blades back while in the contracted position, then extend your arms towards the ground by slowly lowering the barbell.
6. Repeat for reps.

Barbell Bent Over Row

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: 10X0
1. With a hip width stance, hold a barbell with a shoulder width grip in front of your thighs with your knees slightly bent.
2. With a slight hinge forward at the waist, chest up, and your back straight, explosively extend your hips, knees, and ankles to drive the barbell up while you shrug your shoulders to your ears. 
3. Bend your knees to drop down to receive the bar on your shoulders in a front squat rack position with your elbows up and pointing straight ahead.
4. Press your feet through the floor to extend your knee and stand up straight.
5. Repeat for reps.

Barbell Hang Clean

Barbell Complex A

Tempo: as fast as you can with good form
1. While standing, take one step forward with one leg.
2. As you make the descent into the lunge, your front thigh should be parallel to the ground with your back knee at a 90 degree angle hovering just above the floor.
3. Ensure your upper body is upright and perpendicular to the ground throughout the movement without allowing your front knee to go past your toes in the lunge position.
4. Now explode up into a jump by pressing both of your feet through the ground, bringing your back foot forward and your forward foot back, and driving your arms as if you’re sprinting.
5. Cushion your joints by landing softly back into the lunge position and repeat.

Ignite It Up: Jump Lunges

Complete the 4 exercises in Complex B in circuit format, with no rest between the exercises. It also important to KEEP THE WEIGHT IN YOUR HANDS as you transition into each exercise within the complex circuit. Rest for 2 minutes after completing the complex circuit. Repeat for a total of 4 complex circuits.

Tempo: 3010
1. Stand with a shoulder width stance with a pair of dumbbells on the floor.
2. To pick up the dumbbells, start by bending at your hips, followed by bending your knees. Grab the dumbbells with an overhand grip, arms straight, and focus on keeping the natural arch in your lower back throughout the movement.
3. Press your feet through the ground to stand up, pull your torso back, and thrust your hips forward to really contract your glutes.
4. Lower the dumbbells to the ground and repeat.

Dumbbell Deadlift

Tempo: 2010
1. With a shoulder width stance, hold a pair of dumbbells in front of your upper chest, with bent elbows and palms facing your body.
2. To lift the dumbbells over your head, simultaneously rotate your wrists so they now face away from you while drawing the elbows out to the sides so you upper arms are parallel to the ground, then extend your arms to press the dumbbells over your head.
3. Under control, slowly reverse the movement back to the starting position and repeat.

Standing Dumbbell Arnold Press

Tempo: 2010
1. With a hip width stance, hold a pair of dumbbells in front of your thighs with your palms facing your body.
2. Start the movement by bending at the hips, then bending your knees as you lower the dumbbells towards the floor, keeping them close to the body, similar to a deadlift movement.
3. Drive your feet through the floor to raise the dumbbells, then thrust your hips forward once the dumbbells reach knee level, rise up onto your toes, and bend your elbows to continue raising the dumbbells up your body into a dumbbell upright row.
4. Ensure you keep the dumbbells close to the body and your elbows higher than your wrists.
5. Under control, slowly lower the dumbbells to reverse the movement, and repeat.

Dumbbell High Pull

Tempo: 2010
1. With a hip width stance, hold a pair of dumbbells with a palms facing you pronated grip, in front of your thighs.
2. While maintaining a flat back with your arms hanging straight down, lower your torso towards the ground by bending at your hips and knees until you’re almost parallel to the ground.
3. To initiate the row, contract your back muscles, bend your elbows, and pull the dumbbells to the sides of your torso.
4. Squeeze in the contracted position, then slowly lower them and repeat.

Pronated Grip Dumbbell Bent Over Row

Dumbbell Complex B

For the Afterburner Finisher, complete all 4 exercises in circuit format for 20 seconds, followed by a 10 second rest. Repeat 1 time for a total of 2 rounds.

Tempo: As fast as you can with proper form

1. Stand with your feet hip width apart with your knees slightly bent and arms ready to pump.
2. Hop with both feet 90 degrees tap your feet, then quickly hop another 90 degrees. 
3. Immediately hop back another 90 degrees as you continuing pivoting within the half circle.
4. Repeat for reps.

Rotating 2 Feet Pivots

Tempo: 10X0

1. While standing, take a shoulder width stance with your arms down by your sides.
2. Bend at your hips, then your knees, as you lower your body towards the floor in a squatting motion, while placing your hands on the floor, directly under your shoulders, and outside of your knees.
3. Jump back with both feet to get into a standard push up position with your arms extended then immediately complete the push up by bending your elbows and lowering your body until it’s a few inches off the floor, then press your hands through the floor to raise back to the top of the push up.
4. Jump both feet back in and immediately jump straight into the air and bring your knees up and tap them with your hands, then land softly with slightly bent knees.
Immediately complete another burpee into a tuck jump.
5. Repeat for reps.

Burpee Push Up Tuck Jump

Tempo: as fast as possible
1. With a hip width stance, drive one knee up so your thigh is parallel to the ground while pumping the opposite arm and elbow forward, similar to if your were sprinting. 
2. Softly land the foot on the ground while immediately driving the opposite knee up with your opposite arm driving forward. 
3. Repeat as fast as you can for reps.

High Knee Sprints

Tempo: 10X0

1. Get into a push up position with your hands directly below your shoulders and your legs straight behind you.
2. Keep your abs contracted and back flat while quickly driving both knees to one elbow, then hopping back with both feet to get back to the starting position. 
3. Repeat but this time drive both knees to the opposite elbow.  
4. Alternate back and forth as fast as you can maintaining good form.
5. Repeat for reps.

Side To Side Double Knee Ins

Afterburner Finisher

Do this cool down after every workout. Complete one set of each cool down exercise, then grab your protein shake to begin the recovery process.

30 seconds/leg
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/leg
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 your butt down on the form roller and place your hand behind you to hold your body up.
2. Cross your leg over your knee and lean your body towards your hip to put pressure on that glute.
3. Use your arm to slowly move your body forward and backward over the foam roller to release the knots in your piriformis.
4. Switch sides and repeat.

Foam Roller Piriformis (Glutes) Massage

30 seconds/leg
1. Sit on the ground with your legs extended and hands behind you to support your body.
2. Place the foam roller underneath your hamstrings while crossing one leg over top of the other.
3. Use your arms to slowly move your hamstrings forward and backward over the foam roller from the bottom of your glutes to the top of the back of the knee.
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 Hamstring Massage

30 seconds/leg
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.

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