Name: Playbook - John Juker - W1/D2 - Back/Biceps
Uploaded: 2023-03-01T21:14:35.824Z
Duration: 45 min
Description: W1/D2 - Back/Biceps

Back and bicep strength training. No run today so we can rest our legs for tomorrow’s long run of the week.

- Hold the bar with your palms facing away from you
- Pull yourself up bringing your elbows to your ribs
- Pause at the top engaging your back 
- Lower slowly until you arms are fully extended

Pull-up

- Pull the attachment in towards your body
- Keeping your body neutral and core engaged
- Elbows drive towards your hips, squeezing your lats and shoulder blades
- Pause at contraction then slowly return to starting position

Seated cable row

- Hold the dumbbells with your palms facing away from you
- Curl the dumbbell up engaging your bicep 
- Lower with a controlled motion
- Repeat on the opposite side

Alternating dumbbell curls

Superset #1

- Grab the bar with your palms facing forward
- Lean back slightly, keeping your chest up 
- Bring the bar down to your upper chest engaging your lats throughout the exercise
- Pause and return to the initial position

Lat pulldown

- Hinge at the hips and come down with a neutral spine
- Pull the dumbbell up engaging your lats 
- Keep your core tight focus on a slow controlled movement

Dumbbell alternating bent over rows

- Hold the dumbbell with palms facing the center of your body
- Keeping elbows close to your body
- Curl the dumbbell toward your shoulders 
- Pause at the top then lower under control  
- Switch arms and repeat

Alternating hammer curls

Superset #2

- Start with bar in your hands as opposed to the floor
- Slowly lower the weight with a slight bend in your knees, bending at the hips and keeping your back straight
- Lower weight until you feel a slight stretch in your hamstrings
- Drive your hips forward and use your hamstrings to power back to standing

Romanian deadlifts

- Bend over to 90 degrees 
- Raise the cable engaging the back of your shoulders
- Lower slow and controlled back to starting position

W1/D2 - Back/Biceps

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