Name: Playbook - Brad and Jess Gouthro - Dec 20: 365 Challenge
Uploaded: 2023-12-19T15:51:22.838Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: Dec 20: 365 Challenge

Do the warm up first. 

Complete the first superset, resting 30 seconds between exercises.

Continue to superset these exercises until you complete all the sets. 

Do the same for the other supersets.

Finish with the cool down.

Do this warm up before all workouts. 

Take your time and breathe through each movement. 

Complete 1 set of each exercise, then move on to the workout.

Dynamic Warm Up Flow (5 reps/side)

Tempo: 1012
1. Get in the pushup position with your hands directly below your shoulders, keep your legs straight, and tighten up your core.
2. While in the pushup position, lunge forward by bending your knee, and landing your foot just outside your hand.
3. Return to the starting position and repeat that same movement with the opposite leg.

Spiderman Lunge (5 reps/side)

20 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 sec/side)

Warm Up

Complete 6 heavy reps of the first resistance exercise followed by 5 explosive reps of the plyometric exercise.

Tempo: 3010
1. Lie down with your back flat on a bench.
2. Hold a pair of dumbbells and extend your arms over your chest with your palms facing forward.
3. Firmly plant your feet into the floor to maximize your pressing strength.
4. Lower the dumbbells under control by bending your elbows, squeezing your shoulder blades together, and bring the dumbbells to the outside of your chest.
5. Initiate the pressing movement by contracting your chest, pushing your back into the bench, and feet through the floor.
6. Once your arms are fully extended, lower and repeat.

Dumbbell Flat Bench Press

Tempo: 10X0
1. Get into the traditional push up position with your hands planted into the floor below your shoulders.
2. Keep your body in a straight line as you bend your elbows and lower yourself to the floor.
3. Once your chest is just a few inches off the floor, explosively push the floor away from you so your hands come off the floor.
4. Land softly by immediately proceeding back into another rep.
5. Repeat.

Plyometric Push Up

Chest Superset

Complete 6 reps of the first resistance exercise followed by 5 explosive reps of the plyometric exercise.

Tempo: 2011
1. With a shoulder width, overhand grip, grab a pull up bar with both of your hands and hang with your arms fully extended and your legs straight. If the bar is not high enough to hang with straight legs, interlock your feet and bend your knees behind you.
2. Initiate the move by contracting your back muscles to pull your chest up to the bar.
3. Keep your core tight, your glutes contracted, and your body in a straight line when pulling.
4. Then under control, slowly lower your body back to the starting position with your arms fully extended.
5. Repeat.

Pull Up

Tempo: 10X0
1. Grasp the handles of pull up bar with a palms facing away grip, just outside shoulder width, and hang at arm’s length.
2. Contract your core and lats and explosively pull your chest to the bar, then let go of the bar to hoist your body up higher.
3. Catch the bar on the way back down and lower your body back to the starting position with fully extended arms.
4. Repeat.

Plyometric Pull Up

Back Superset

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: 10X0
1. Take a wider stance outside of shoulder width.
2. Quickly bend at the hips and knees and swing your arms down and back to lower yourself down into a half squat.
3. Press your feet through the ground to jump as high as you can while explosively swinging your arms over your head.
4. Land softly to cushion your joints immediately repeat the exercise for the intended number or reps or time.

Hulk Super Leap

Squat Superset

6 reps/side
Tempo: 2010
1. Stand with your feet hip width apart.
2. Step backward with one leg while keeping your chest up.
3. Lower yourself until your back leg almost touches the floor and is at a 90 degree angle.
4. Press through the ground with your feet, then lift yourself back up to starting position.
5. Once all your reps are completed with one leg, switch legs and repeat.

Barbell Reverse Lunge (6/leg)

5 reps/leg
Tempo: 10X0
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.

Jump Lunges (5/leg)

Lunge Superset

At the end of the workout, complete the cool down in circuit format for 1 set. 

Take your time and stretch any other muscles that may feel tight.

1. Lie down on your back, bend your knees and plant your feet into the ground, with your arms down by your sides and palms facing the floor.
2. Bring one knee up to your chest and grab the outside of your knee with the opposite hand.
3. Pull your knee towards your opposite shoulder while keeping your head, back, and shoulders flat against the floor.
4. Hold for approximately 20 seconds, then lower your foot back to the ground.
5. Repeat the same movement with the opposite leg.

Lying Crossover Stretch (30 sec/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 (30 sec/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 sec/leg)

1. Get down on your hands and knees with your feet against a wall or couch. Keeping one knee on the floor, lift the opposite foot and slide it up the wall (or the front of the couch) until the top of your foot and shin is flat against the wall. Step forward with the opposite leg so you foot is directly below your knee.
2. Lift your torso up so it’s inline with your quad on the back leg. Squeeze your glutes and contract your hamstrings by trying to pull your heel to your butt.
3. Set the timer, hold, and repeat with the other leg.

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