Name: Playbook - Juli Bauer Roth - Gym Lower Body
Uploaded: 2025-11-04T16:47:55.656Z
Duration: 51 min
Description: Gym Lower Body

This workout is fun!! It's straight to the point, without any supersets and trisets. I dig this one. Hope you do, too! Enjoy!

Equipment needed:
✅ smith machine
✅ leg extension machine
✅ seated calf machine
✅ dumbbell
✅ cable machine

Inchworm to Spiderman Lunge

- Standing straight holding onto a stationary object
- With feet hip width apart
- Swing one leg forward and backward in a single movement 
- Switch sides and repeat

Forward leg swings R

Forward leg swings L

- Step one foot behind you and lower down until your back knee is close to the ground 
- Press through the front foots heel to stand back up
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Reverse step lunges

90/90 hip stretch with hip extension

- Raise one leg
- Press through your opposite leg and engage your glute
- Place your hands on your side for balance

Single leg glute bridges R

Single leg glute bridges L

- Stand with feet shoulder width apart
- Lower in to the bottom of a squat pushing your hips back and down
- Stand up out of squat to full hip extension keeping your chest up
- Your knees should be inline with your toes

Air squats

- Put bench at an incline.
- Lie forward on stomach, on your elbows. Your hips should be at the end of the bench with your legs hanging over.
- As you squeeze your glutes to lift your legs, drive your legs slightly out while contracting your glutes and lifting your legs as high as you can.
- Hold for a count of two.
- Inhale as you lower your feet back to the starting position.

Bench Reverse Hypers

Warm-up

- set up a bench or other back support and set barbell and height that you can unrack the barbell from the smith machine for first rep
- place barbell at hips or slightly below with shoulder blades on back support. Press hip up, squeezing glutes, with your glance forward, towards your hips (not looking up)
- lock out glutes and hold for 1 second before lowering back down, keeping chin tucked the whole time

Smith machine hip thrusts

- Sit on the machine with the pad at the bottom of your shin 
- Extend your legs engaging your quads 
- Pause at the top and lower slowly

Leg extensions

- Press up using your toes activating your calf muscles
- Lower slowly stretching the calf muscles

Substitutions:
- standing calf machine
- standing calf raises on smith machine
- single arm dumbbell calf raises

Seated calf raise

- Standing with your feet close, toed out and heels elevated
- Hold a single dumbbell in the goblet position
- Lower into the bottom of a squat
- Stand up to full extension

Heels elevated dumbbell goblet squat

12 REPS EACH SIDE

- Keeping both legs slightly bent 
- Pull your strapped ankle away from the pulley until it is fully abducted
- Return your strapped leg to the starting position
- Repeat for more repetitions

Cable abductions

Cat cow

Downward Dog with Foot Pedal

- Bend your left knee and place your shin along the back cushion of a couch, chair or up against with your toes pointed upward. 
- Keep your left thigh in line with your body. Place your right foot in front, aligning your knee above your ankle. Elongate your spine and engage your core and glutes.

Couch Stretch R

Couch Stretch L

Pigeon stretch R

Pigeon stretch L

Quadruped adductor stretch R

Quadruped adductor stretch L

Cool down

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Loved this one! The curtsy lunges at the end were 😈😈

Rachelle

Lisa Marino

One of my go-to’s for when I just need a quick full body workout! So simple but so hard!

Shannon Hooper

Alicia

KBs are one of my favorite tools! Excellent burn!

Nichell

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Melissa

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Loved this one! That 1.5 RDL was 🍑🔥!!!

Love these simple and to the point workouts!

Leah henriksen

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Reall enjoyed this arm and shoulder burner!

Charly

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Jessica

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Great little burner! The METCON was a beast, but so good!

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Jennifer

Excellent! Perfect for my apartment complex gym.

Alice

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Hamstrings & Glutes

Love!!!! The chin ups are harder than I thought…so it’s my goal to get them unassisted!

Valerie

Biceps & Triceps

It was good! I was doing it in a garage gym (CrossFit type gym) so some options for substituting would have been helpful; but I was able to google some and it worked out great. I was pretty sore actually and I’ve been doing CrossFit for 8 years! Lol. Thank you!

Kara

LOVED!!!!! It hit all the spots for a full body 🙌🏼

Thanks for exposing my glute weakness with the single leg hip thrust! Got something to work at!

Braden Torrez

Great workout on a snowy day when I couldn’t get to the gym

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Great burner!! Arms and legs/glutes will be sore tomorrow!

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Elyse

Loved this workout! Hit all the good spots for tanks/sleeveless shirts!!

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Loved this one! Challenging and rewarding!

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Really really tough ! But really really good !💪🏾

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The wall walks were definitely humbling. Very fun workout.

Whoo!!! That METCON was a humdinger, but sooo good!

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Erica Cerami

Limited time today - this is just what I needed to stay in track !  Thank you

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