Name: Playbook - Brad and Jess Gouthro - Oct 4: Fat Blaster - Gym & Home
Uploaded: 2023-10-03T17:01:25.917Z
Duration: 40 min
Description: Oct 4: Fat Blaster - Gym & Home

Follow the warm up first. 

Before starting, set up your workout station so you have all the equipment you need to complete the circuit.

Then complete each exercise in circuit format resting 10 seconds between each exercise. 

At the end of the circuit, rest 2 minutes, then repeat up to a total of 5 circuits, depending on your fitness level, as indicated below the workout.

After the workout, move onto the cool down.

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

1. While standing, mimic the movements that you would make if you were jogging, but stay in one place.
2. Bend your knees and quickly raise one foot off the ground then land on the opposite foot as your pump your arms.
3. Continue alternating feet for the desired amount of reps or time.

Jog In Place

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 (15 reps/leg)

1. Start with your feet together, the take one step back and lower into a lunge position with your front knee bent at a 90 degree angle, and your back knee hovering just above the ground.
2. Reach your arms over your head and grab your wrist and lightly pull your arm across your body to the side of your front knee. 
3. Hold for a few seconds to feel the stretch, then press your front foot through the ground to come back up to standing.
4. Repeat.

Reverse Lunge Overhead Side Reach (6 reps/side)

Warm Up

BEGINNER: 3 sets 
INTERMEDIATE: 4 sets 
ADVANCED: 5 sets

Before starting, set up your workout station so you have all the equipment you need to complete the circuit.

Then complete each exercise in circuit format resting 10 seconds between each exercise. 

At the end of the circuit, rest 2 minutes, then repeat up to a total of 5 circuits, depending on your fitness level, as indicated below the workout.

Tempo: 1010
1. Place one foot on a stable step, box, or bench with your other foot on the floor.
2. While keeping your upper body upright, press your foot through the step, then drive your knee forward.
3. Under control, lower your foot back to the floor.
4. Switch legs and repeat.
5. Continue alternating legs for reps.

Alternating Step Up With Knee Drive

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

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 with your arms over your head. 
5. Land softly, then immediately complete another jump burpee push up.
6. Repeat for reps.

Jump Burpee Push Up

Tempo: 1010
1. Lie down face up on the floor with your palms pressed into the floor by your sides or under your butt.
2. Spread your legs and raise them a few inches off the floor.
3. Keeping your core contracted and legs extended, cross your legs, then spread them, then cross them again, but this time with the opposite leg on top.
4. Repeat for reps.

Scissor Kick

Tempo: 1010
1. Lie down on your back, place your hands on the side of your head, with your knees bent at a 90 degree angle.
2. Lift your shoulders and upper back off the floor while crunching across your body to touch one elbow with the opposite knee while straightening your other leg.
3. Pause to contract your abs to feel a good squeeze, then straighten the bent leg while bending your other knee towards your chest and twist your upper body to touch your knee with the opposite elbow.
4. That’s one rep.
5. Continue alternating sides and repeat for reps.

Bicycle Crunch

Fat Blaster 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 (15 sec/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 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 (15 sec/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 (15 sec/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 (15 sec/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 (15 sec/side)

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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