Name: Playbook - Katie Smith - Back & Shoulders
Uploaded: 2023-05-10T16:39:34.070Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: Back & Shoulders

- With back supported hold two dumbbells at your shoulders 
- Press the dumbbells up to full arm extension
- Lower them to the starting position

Dumbbell seated shoulder press

- Keep a slight bend at the elbow
- Raise your arms until you reach shoulder height 
- Lower with a slow and controlled movement

Dumbbell lateral raises

Use a close grip handle attachment. Make sure you sit back in your hips, core tight, row the bar up with elbows tucked back to your sides.

Landmine Bent Over Row

- With a close grip 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 close grip cable row

- Grab the bar with a neutral grip
- Pull down towards the top of your chest
- Keep your elbows close to your body
- Engage your lats as you pull
- Extend your arms to return the bar to starting position

Neutral grip lat pulldown

- Hold a barbell in front of your body palms facing you
- Raise your elbows up and to the sides, pulling the bar towards your chin
- Keeping the bar close to the body
- Pause at the top, elbows no higher than the shoulders
- Return the bar back to starting position

Barbell upright row

Use a heavier weight for the rows. Lighter weight (5-10 pounds) for the reverse flys and Y’s!

- With your chest flat on an incline bench and a dumbbell in each hand
- Pull the dumbbells to your hips
- Squeeze your shoulder blades at the top
- Slowly lower the dumbbell back down

Dumbbell chest supported row

- Begin tipped forward at the hips with a dumbbell in each hand
- With a slight bend in the elbows and arms extended below your chest
- Raise the dumbbells up until your arms are in line with you shoulders 
- Lowering with control back to starting position

Dumbbell bent over reverse flies

- Support your chest into an incline bench
- With a dumbbell in each hand raise the dumbbells up in a Y motion
- Lower the dumbbells back down to starting position

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