Name: Playbook - Brad and Jess Gouthro - May 1: Push It - Gym & Home
Uploaded: 2023-05-02T14:59:13.500Z
Duration: 45 min
Description: May 1: Push It - Gym & Home

Follow the warm up first. After the warm up, complete one set of push ups for as many reps as possible (AMRAP). Note the number of completed push ups as you’ll re-test to see the improvement in your push up strength in 15 days. 

After completing the push up challenge, move on to the full body workout circuit. Complete all exercises in circuit format, with a 10 second rest between each exercise. Rest for 60 seconds at the end of the circuit, then complete 2 more times for a total of 3 circuits. After the workout move onto the cool down.

Follow these moves for the sets and reps indicated before your 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: 2121
1. Stand against a wall ensuring your butt, back, arms, and head touch the wall.
2. Now in a slow and controlled manner, raise your arms over your head.
3. Then lower your arms by bending your elbows until they are close to your sides.
4. Do your best to ensure your shoulders, elbows, and wrists maintain contact with the wall throughout the movement.
5. You should feel a contraction in your shoulders and back.

Wall Slides

10 reps/leg
1. While standing, place your hands at chest level and hold onto a sturdy object for balance.
2. With your chest up and looking straight ahead, swing one leg out to the side away from the body as high as you can, then reverse the swing back down and across of your stationary leg.
3. Complete all the reps with one leg, then switch legs and repeat.

Standing Side To Side Leg Swing (10/leg)

Warm Up

AMRAP: as many reps as possible
Complete one set of push ups for as many reps as possible (AMRAP). Note the number of completed push ups as you’ll re-test to see the improvement in your push up strength in 15 days. 

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 Challenge (AMRAP)

Complete all exercises in circuit format, with a 10 second rest between each exercise. Rest for 60 seconds at the end of the circuit, then complete 2 more times for a total of 3 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

Tempo: as fast as you can
1. With a hip width stance, bend your elbows at a 90 degree angle in front of your body with your palms facing down.
2. Drive one knee up so your knee taps your hands.
3. Softly land the foot on the ground while immediately driving the opposite knee up to tap your other hand. 
4. Repeat as fast as you can for reps.

High Knee Taps

Tempo: 1010
1. Stand with your feet just outside hip width distance while holding a pair of dumbbells at your sides. 
2. Curl the dumbbells up to your shoulders and hold the dumbbells with a palms facing away grip, similar to a shoulder press. This is your starting position.
3. Keeping the dumbbells in this position, begin the squat movement by bending at the hips, then knees until  your thighs are parallel to the floor or as close as you can with your mobility. 
4. Press your feet through the ground to stand back up, while simultaneously pressing the dumbbells over your head. 
5. Continue the movement by lowering the dumbbells back to your shoulders while lowering into the squat again.
6. Repeat.

Dumbbell Squat And Press

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

Tempo: 1010
1. While standing, take one step forward with one leg.
2. As you make the descent into the lunge, your front thigh should reach parallel to the ground or as close as your mobility allows.
3. Your back knee should be bent at a 90 degree angle hovering just a few inches above the floor.
4. Ensure your upper body is upright and perpendicular to the ground.  
5. Press your feet through the floor to return to the starting position and repeat with your other leg.

Alternating Forward Lunge

Tempo: 1010
1. Sit on the edge of a bench with your knees bent at 90 degrees, feet planted into the floor, with your hands gripping the bench just outside your hips.
2. Once you’re ready, shift your butt forward off the edge of the bench and bend your elbows, keeping them close to the body, as you lower your butt towards the floor.
3. Once your upper arms reach parallel to the floor, press your hands through the bench to straighten your arms.
4. Pause to contract the triceps, then complete another bench dip.
5. That’s one rep.
6. For a beginner variation of the bench dip, bend your knees and plant your full foot into the floor.
7. Repeat for reps.

Bench Dip

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

Push It Circuit

Follow these moves for the sets and reps indicated after your workout.

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 (20 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 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 (20 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 (20 sec/leg)

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.

May 1: Push It - Gym & Home

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