Name: Playbook - Michael Smith - W1/D2 PULL
Uploaded: 2024-05-02T21:31:53.850Z
Duration: 120 min
Description: W1/D2 PULL

Antonio

Mark

Andres

Brandon Molina

It was an intense workout.🔥 Making the jump from 3 sets to 4 had me feeling swole. 💪

Jules

Joshua

Amazing circuit. Felt my muscles activating with every workout

Silbestre

OD my guy 🤦🏽‍♂️, I’m loving it 😂🔥

Steven

Johnathan Wilcox

Billy J. Hawkains III

Ze-Jhong

Kevin

Garrett Sanders

Andre

Payton

Brandon Hargis

Day 2 down and I’m feeling great! Happy to see some quick abs added into this session. Thanks Merk!

Kenneth McBride

Craig Johnson

Austin

Good pump , although I find such long workouts confusing on how to add cardio to it.

Vaibhav

RyanSibi

Joseph

Sabestian Trevino

It was a good workout got a good pump in.

Carlos

Matthew Murillo

Back and biceps on fire! Perfect pump and workout!

Alexander

Yessir first time doing this I just couldn’t do dips with heavy weights what can I replace that for ?

Rob Wood

Suheib

Julio

Leon

Firee, definitely pushed the limit with this one

Chris

Thomas

It’s a good thing I didn’t have to work today lol. Workouts long as hell lol

Darryl

Leudis

O Neil diaz

Aidan

Vinny

This was well worth it.! Had me sweating like crazy, good way of explaining.!

Abdio

Armand

Nasr

- 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

Set 1: Perform 8 reps at approximately 50% of your working weight.

Set 2: Perform 5 reps at approximately 80% of your working weight.

Execution:
- Hold the bar with your palms facing you
- Keep your back in a neutral position bracing your core
- Pull the barbell up engaging your lats as you pull
- Pause at the top and lower with a controlled motion

Barbell Row - Warm Up

- Hold the bar with your palms facing you
- Keep your back in a neutral position bracing your core
- Pull the barbell up engaging your lats as you pull
- Pause at the top and lower with a controlled motion

Barbell 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

- Holding a dumbbell in one hand with a neutral grip, place your opposite hand on a bench or other stable surface 
- Step into a split stance, bend both knees slightly, letting the dumbbell hang at arm’s length toward the floor
- Keeping your back flat, core engaged, and elbow tucked, row the dumbbell to your hip
- Pause, and then lower the dumbbell back to the starting position
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Single Arm Dumbbell Row

- Attach a weight to a dip belt and secure it around your waist
- Grab the pull-up bar with the palms of your hands facing forward
- You'll want to bring your torso back about 30 degrees while creating a curvature in your lower back and slightly sticking your chest out
- Now, exhale and pull your torso up until your head is above your hands
- Concentrate on squeezing your shoulder blades back and down as you reach the top contracted position
- After a brief moment at the top contracted position, inhale and slowly lower your torso back to the starting position with your arms extended and your lats fully stretched

Weighted Pull-Up

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

- Sit on the pec deck fly machine with your stomach against the pad
- Grasp the pec deck handles ensuring your upper arms are parallel to the floor
- Push the handles back together as you contract your back and squeeze your shoulder blades
- Hold this contraction for 1 second
- Release back to starting position with control
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions

Reverse Pec Deck Fly

- Pull the attachment in towards your body
- Keeping your body neutral and core engaged
- Elbows drive high and wide, squeezing your rear delts and upper back
- Pause at contraction then slowly return to starting position

High Bar Cable Row

superset: Reverse Fly x High Row

- 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

Preform the first set of each abdominal exercise back to back only resting once fully through the first round. Take the recommended rest time or slightly more if needed. Repeat for each round.

- Start with your hands just outside the shoulders 
- Bend at the elbows to come down 
- Extend your arms engaging your chest as you come up
- Tuck one knee 
- Repeating the push up then tuck the opposite knee

Knee-down Push-up

- From a high pulley grip rope just forward or to the sides of your face
- Roll your ribs towards your hips engaging your abs
- Bring your elbows toward your knees
- Slowly return back to starting position

Cable Crunch

Abs:

W1/D2 PULL

First day with the program, and it was fire🔥🔥🔥

Federico

Stephanie

W1/D1 PUSH

Stephen

Loved the intensity. Forgot my headphones and had to push through with Katy Perry playing at my gym LMAAAOOO. Not looking forward to the next leg day 💀💀(will do it anyway of course)

W1/D3 LEGS - QUAD FOCUSED

Alfonso

Justin

W1/D4 PUSH

Neil

Pharaoh Williams

W1/D5 PULL

Bakeer

Russ

Another solid workout completed. 6 days in a row, looking forward tot his off day tomorrow! 🫡

W1/D2 PULL

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