Name: Playbook - Michael Smith - BACK x BICEPS
Uploaded: 2023-01-07T18:23:08.414Z
Duration: 90 min
Description: BACK x BICEPS

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Focus on squeezing the back each rep while minimizing as much momentum as possible.
[to help achieve this, visualize driving your elbows back on rowing motions and down on pulling motions]
Don’t be afraid to go heavy, but don’t go heavy at the expense of reasonable form, straps are definitely recommended for heavy compound exercises.
If needed utilize rest-pause sets to go beyond failure.

- start with palm facing away from you 
- rotate palm towards you as you pull down 
- keep chest lifted 
- drive elbow down & hug into side body as you engage lat

One Arm Lat Pull Down

- 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

[superset] PULL UP x ONE ARM LAT PULL DOWN

- Stand astride the bar and bend at the hips to take a neutral grip on the v-bar (make sure the handle is pressed ask the way up to the plates)
- Ensure that your back remains flat
- Perform the movement by flexing the elbows and retracting the shoulder blades, pulling the weight to your chest
- Pause at the top, return to the starting position

Landmine Row

- 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

- Stand astride the bar and bend at the hips to take a pronated grip on the handles
- Ensure that your back remains flat
- Perform the movement by flexing the elbows and retracting the shoulder blades, pulling the weight to your chest
- Pause at the top, return to the starting position

(You can use a either a free standing or a chest supported T-bar)

T-bar Row

- Get into a hyperextension bench holding a weight
- Hinging at the waist lower down relaxing our back muscle
- Extend your body back up activating your lower back

Weighted Back Extension

- Start with the bench in an inclined position at around 45 degrees
- Lie on the bench with your torso and stomach pressed against the backrest of the bench, but with your clavicle free (The top of the bench should be around arm-pit height, allowing you to move your arms with a fairly amount of freedom)
- Grab a dumbbell on each hand with palms facing forward
- Feel the weight of the dumbbells and let your arms stretch all the way down
- Bend your elbows and curl the dumbbells all the way up with dumbbells reaching close to your shoulders
- Squeeze your biceps during the movement and especially at the top of the movement.
In a controlled manner, lower the weights to the initial position

Dumbbell Spider Curl

- Hold the barbell in your hands and your palms facing forward (underhand grip)
- Curl the bar up toward your shoulders, engaging your biceps
- Lower the bar back down, slow and controlled

Barbell Curl

BACK x BICEPS

Jake

Nick

Aye man lol this was killer, not gone lie I quit half way through but in 2 months I will be able to finish the whole circuit. That’s the goal

Dominic

CHEST x SHOULDERS

Syed

Makeer

BACK x REAR DELT

Sebastian

Hello Michael I have been feeling pain for last couple of weeks on my left hamstring, while i was preforming lying hamstring curls i felt a popping or kicking sound, i tried to do lower weights to prevent it form pain and let it recover, but it only hurts when i do these specific exercise.

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