Name: Playbook - Kellen Milad - BS [PHASE 2] Week 3 / Day 4: Lower Body
Uploaded: 2023-10-29T21:15:31.216Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: BS [PHASE 2] Week 3 / Day 4: Lower Body

Peter Kelly

Juan

Craig

• Supine Hip Bridge, press the soles of your feet into the ground. Keep bottom ribs draw down, hips in full extension - glutes braced.
• Draw one knee in towards chest. Maintain the full hip bridge on one leg.
• Pause and switch sides.

Supine Hip Bridge March

• Active Side Bent Sit position - long spine, front leg gripping the ground
• Sweep back leg forward. 
• Rock back to your hips, switch leg position
• Wrap your straight leg back behind you. 
• Build momentum and speed. Add forward folds for stretch.

Side Bent Sit Hip Switches

• Start in a Low Kneeling position, feet flat.
• Bring knees close together and splay your feet out slightly
• Shift your weight to one side, rotate the opposite hip open
• Roll over the inside of the big toe. Plant the sole of your foot as you rotate open.
• Close the hip. Shift your weight and switch sides.

Kneeling Hip Rotations

• From standing, lower into a deep knee bend > kneeling.

• Step out to half kneeling get up to standing on each side. 

• Return to flexed foot kneeling and get up. Repeat sequence for the prescribed reps or time.

Kneel / Half Kneel Get Ups

Work basic lunges in a variety of directions. Focus on maintaining balance and stability as you step into and out of the lunges.

• Start on one leg. Lunge forward, diagonally, laterally, rotationally, and across your body. Switch sides.

• As you become more familiar with the different angles. Add complexity. Alternate from side to side. Randomize the angles.

Multiplane Lunges

Mobility Warm Up

• Lie on your back with your heels set on a top of a chair or bench
• Keep your core braced with lower pressed to the ground. 
• With feet flexed, press heels into the bench and drive hips upward.
• Keep tension in your hamstrings and glutes as you lower down.
• Progression: Single-Leg variation

Supine Hip Bridge

Bodyweight or light to moderate load

• Hold the weight securely at chest height or at your sides.
• Maintain braced core and good posture.
• Lean forward shifting weight to the front leg. Press through the platform to step up
• Avoid jumping from the back leg as much as possible.
• Center your weight over the platform and control your descent.

*10 reps each leg*

Step Ups

SuperSet# 1

*10 reps each side*

• Set up a long stance with upright posture. Braced core. Stay in the ball of the back foot.
• Shift weight forward lowering into the front hip, allowing the back hip to fully extend.
• You may need to adjust the stance slightly. Keep your balance with a relatively even weight distribution front to back.
• Feel the compression of the front hip, stretch in the back hip.
• Press back up to middle. Perform all reps & switch sides.

*12 reps per side.*

Split Squats (bodyweight)

10 total jumps

• Start in Crossback squat. 
• As you stand up, push off the front leg and perform a lateral leg swing jump.
• Crossback leg lands first. Jumping leg follows and transitions into the opposite side Crossback Squat
• Focus on stability in the squat and explosiveness in the jump.

Crossback Squat to Lateral Jump

SuperSet #2

Switch legs every round - 3 rounds per side

• Single-leg squat variation when your back leg is held behind you. Work to touch your back knee to the ground.

• Work within your active ROM. 

• Reach your arms forward for additional counterbalancing.

• Use a chair or PVC pipe for assistance in deepening the movement

Hover Single Leg Squats

Choose the variation that fits your current ability level.
•Bench Squat (partial ROM)
•Heel Lift - elevate heel with a book or weight plate.
•Standard 

• From standing, lift one leg in front and hold your arms out
• Sit down actively pulling through the creases of your hip & ankle .
• Work control in the eccentric (lowering).
• Brace your core and press hard into the ground to stand up.

Single Leg (Pistol) Squats

SuperSet #3

• Sink down into a partial squat - keep your knees open and spine long.
• Explode upwards into a jump.
• Land softly back in your half squat and repeat.
• Maintain stability and alignment through your lower body.

Squat Jumps

• Start in an athletic stance. Lower your COG
• Plant your hands on the ground. Push through locked out arms and extend legs backwards.
• Allow your elbows to bend and lower your chest to the ground.
• In one dynamic action, press up and spring up onto your feet. Rise to standing.

Back Sprawls

• Start in a stable Single Leg Balance
• Draw your free leg back across your midline.
• Fall to the side, push off your standing leg + swing your free leg to carry you through the jump.
• Land softly on you free leg first and find stability. Repeat.

Lateral Swing Jumps

Finisher

• Start in Half Kneeling with pelvis tucked, back foot pressing into the ground, and back glute engaged to created the hip flexor stretch.

• Glide forward to lengthen the stretch at the back leg.

• Sit back and all the front leg to extend for the Half Split. Keep your spine long, quad engaged, and toes pointed or pulled back for different stretches.

• Move between these positions for the allotted time.

*3 minutes each side.*

Half Kneel / Half Split (stretch)

• Start in a Cross-legged Sit position or hook  top leg across the opposite knee for the Crossover stretch.

• Both positions are valuable hip openers. Spend time with the different variations.

• Lean forward in Cross Sit and work both sides.

• For Crossover Sit, hug your knee in towards your chest and elongate your spine. Feel the stretch in your glutes.

• Crossover Sit: Keep your front foot flexed and actively draw hip into socket for stability and to protect your knee.

*Switch cross every minute.*

Cross Sit / Cross Over Sit (stretch)

• Long Sit position with shoulders back and long spine. Bolster hips with a towel or yoga block if necessary.

• Actively reach your legs away from your body.

• Lean forward from the hips to intensify the stretch. Reach at different angles to change the stretch.

• Don't move into pain or forces the ROM. Be patient and remember to breathe.

Long Sit (stretch)

Stretch

BS [PHASE 2] Week 3 / Day 4: Lower Body

El mejor entrenamiento que he hecho! Recomendadísimo.

Matt

BS [PHASE 1] Session 1: Upper Body

The stretches ar the end were lovely after that workout 👍🏻😁

Rawi

BS [PHASE 1] Session 2: Lower Body

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Those scapular push-ups and dive push ups are tricky. It was for sure a fun one

Daniel

BS [PHASE 1] Session 3: Upper Body

Niko

Great workout! Had to do some modifications. 4 min stretches seemed too long though.

BS [PHASE 1] Session 4: Lower Body

Artur

BS [PHASE 1] Session 5: Upper Body

Kenny

BS [PHASE 1] Session 6: Lower Body

Tymothy

Maria Cristina Zago

BS [PHASE 1] Session 7: Upper Body

Litiana Lloyd

BS [PHASE 1] Session 8: Lower Body

Great workout, and quite difficult! I did the push up series right after the warm-up to make sure I will manage to complete them! Thanks for this

Xavier

BS [PHASE 1] Session 9: Upper Body

Sonia

Mala

BS [PHASE 1] Session 10: Lower Body

BS [PHASE 1] Week 3 / Day 3: Upper Body

Nice, had to split it to fit within my time schedule. Felt good!

BS [PHASE 1] Week 3 / Day 4: Lower Body

BS [PHASE 1] Week 4 / Day 1: Upper Body

Great work out. However, round 3 I think, are we supposed to do 2 sets of bridges?

BS [PHASE 1] Week 4 / Day 2: Lower Body

BS [PHASE 1] Week 4 / Day 3: Upper Body

BS [PHASE 1] Week 4 / Day 4: Lower Body

Did not feel like doing anything today so took my time and now feel great! Thanks!

BS [PHASE 2] Week 1 / Day 1: Upper Body

Plyo at the beginning was brutal! Had to take it a little slow.

Travis

BS [PHASE 2] Week 1 / Day 2: Lower Body

Great, first crow balance achieved 👍👍👍

BS [PHASE 2] Week 1 / Day 3: Upper Body

Great! Plyo made my legs feel like jello!

BS [PHASE 2] Week 1 / Day 4: Lower Body

BS [PHASE 2] Week 2 / Day 1: Upper Body

Started in my usual way, but then added music to the workout and that transformed the moves into more expressive movement patterns and explored some different shapes within the sets.. super enjoyable!

BS [PHASE 2] Week 2 / Day 2: Lower Body

BS [PHASE 2] Week 2 / Day 3: Upper Body

Enjoyed that, I've got spaghetti for legs now 🤣

Great cardio from the plyo and the supersets and squat series were sneaky-challenging and fun.

Garrett

BS [PHASE 2] Week 2 / Day 4: Lower Body

Great workout. Sadly the offline download works only for half the exercises, and the next exercise tap is almost impossible to find...

BS [PHASE 2] Week 3 / Day 4: Lower Body

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