Name: Playbook - Michael Smith - CHEST x SHOULDERS
Uploaded: 2024-05-02T21:31:53.618Z
Duration: 90 min
Description: CHEST x SHOULDERS

Alfonso

John

really good workout; but my shoulders gave out on me for the incline bench 🤬

Stephanie

Omar

Cardio done first thing in the morning before your first meal.

Aim to keep your heart rate at 70% of your maximum heart rate [220 - age in years] for the full time.

Bike/Stairs/Jog/Incline Treadmill

Session I: Fasted Cardio

- Lying on an incline bench, Hold light dumbbells in each hand
- Extend and raise your arms in the shape of a “Y” formation (thumbs upward) 
- Then bring them down to form a “T” (thumbs down)
- Follow with the last movement by putting your arms in the shape of a “W” by shrugging and squeezing your shoulder blades together and raising your arms like a field goal, rotating your thumbs pointing behind you

Y-T-W Raise

Session II: Warm Up

- Lay on the incline bench with your feet flat on the ground
- Take a medium, pronated grip on the bar
- Remove the bar from the rack, holding the weight above your chest with your arms extended
- Lower the bar to the sternum by flexing the elbows (Maintain control and do not bounce the bar off of your chest) 
- Extend the elbows, pressing the bar up to the starting position

Smith Machine Incline Bench Press

Perform one set of each exercise back to back followed by the suggested rest time.

- Lie down on a flat bench with a dumbbell in each hand resting on top of your thighs. The palms of your hands will be facing each other
- Then, using your thighs to help raise the dumbbells up, lift the dumbbells one at a time so that you can hold them in front of you at shoulder width
- Once at shoulder width, rotate your wrists forward so that the palms of your hands are facing away from you
- The dumbbells should be just to the sides of your chest, with your upper arm and forearm creating a 90 degree angle
- Use your chest to push the dumbbells up 
- Lock your arms at the top of the lift and squeeze your chest, hold for a second and then begin coming down slowly (Ideally, lowering the weight should take about twice as long as raising it)

Dumbbell Bench Press

- Lie down on a flat bench with a dumbbell on each hand resting on top of your thighs, palms of your hand will be facing each other
- Then using your thighs to help raise the dumbbells, lift the dumbbells one at a time so you can hold them in front of you at shoulder width with the palms of your hands facing each other
- Raise the dumbbells up like you're pressing them, but stop and hold just before you lock out
- With a slight bend on your elbows in order to prevent stress at the biceps tendon, lower your arms out at both sides in a wide arc until you feel a stretch on your chest (Keep in mind that throughout the movement, the arms should remain stationary; the movement should only occur at the shoulder joint)
- Return your arms back to the starting position as you squeeze your chest muscles and breathe out (Make sure to use the same arc of motion used to lower the weights)
- Hold for a second at the contracted position and repeat the movement for the prescribed amount of repetitions

Dumbbell Fly

superset: Bench Press x Dumbbell Fly

- Start by wrapping your dip belt around your waist, chain side in front
- Attach your weight plate to the dropped side before looping it around, and clip it back to the other side of your belt
- Mount the dip bars, holding onto the bars as you hold your body at arm’s length (arms and elbows straight and locked)
- Keep your head in line with your trunk, wrists in line with your forearms
- Inhale as you slowly start to lower your body
- Let your torso move slightly forward and your elbows to flare out to the side
- Once you feel a stretch in your chest, breathe out and start to push yourself slowly back up to the starting position

Weighted Dip

- Select the weight on a low pulley machine and grasp the single hand cable attachment that is attached to the low pulley with one hand
- Face away from the pulley and put your arm straight down with the hand cable attachment in front of your thighs at arms' length with the palms of the hand facing your thighs
- While maintaining the torso stationary (no swinging), lift the arm laterally with a slight bend on the elbow and the palms of the hand always faces down
- Continue to go up until you arm is slightly above parallel to the floor 
- Pause for a second at the top
- Lower the arm back down slowly to the starting position
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Single Arm Cable Lateral Raise

- Begin in half kneeling position
- With your elbow slightly in front of you 
- Press the end of the barbell up 
- Reach full extension at the top
- Lower with control back to starting position
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Landmine Shoulder Press

Perform one set of each abdominal exercise back to back followed by the suggested rest time.

- Lie on an exercise ball with your lower back curvature pressed against the spherical surface of the ball, feet should be bent at the knee and pressed firmly against the floor
- Lower your torso into a stretch position keeping the neck stationary at all times
- With the hips stationary, flex the waist by contracting the abdominals and curl the shoulders and trunk upward until you feel a nice contraction on your abdominals (The lower back should always stay in contact with the ball)
- Exhale as you perform this movement and hold the contraction for a second
- As you inhale, go back to the starting position
- Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions

Stability Ball Crunch

Ab Circuit

CHEST x SHOULDERS

Franco

Gregory

Miguel

WELCOME TO SEASON II

Amazing workout, definitely feel a great pump.

Jose

Crazy pump. Love how the exercises are structured.

Mike

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Steven

Syed

Erik

SHOULDERS x ARMS

Luis Núñez

Isiah

Bro your Leg workouts were intense. Do you have any tips to warm up the knees, like any workouts to make your knees stronger?

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