Name: Playbook - Miranda Criner - Bands, Booty & Core
Uploaded: 2024-01-12T17:50:55.383Z
Duration: 45 min
Description: Bands, Booty & Core

Grab those mini resistance bands and let’s get to work! 

You’ll want a timer and some water too!

Welcome to your warm up!

You will work :30 seconds on and rest for :10 to transition for all exercises EXCEPT your plank!

- Run in place with high knees for time or reps
- Increase speed as you feel comfortable

High knees

- Start by standing with your feet together - In one motion, jump your feet out to the side and raise your arms above your head - Immediately reverse the motion by jumping back to the starting position - Increase speed as you feel comfortable

Jumping jacks

- Stand with your legs shoulder width apart
- Flex your knee and kick your heel up toward your glutes
- As one leg comes down, flex your other knee and kick your other foot up toward your glutes 
- Swing your arms as if you were jogging
- Increase speed as you feel comfortable

Butt kicks

- Stand with feet shoulder width apart
- Lower in to the bottom of a squat pushing your hips back and down
- Stand up out of squat to full hip extension keeping your chest up
- Your knees should be inline with your toes

Air squats

- Lay on the floor with your legs bent
- Push through your heels bringing your hips up 
- Squeezing your glutes 
- Lower back to starting position

Glute bridge

Forearm Plank Hold

Warm up

We are going to be working :40 seconds on for each move and resting for :20 seconds before moving to the next move.

You will work 3-5 total rounds with :45 seconds to rest between each round! 

Get ready to burn, sweat and build those glutes 🔥

Banded Lying Leg Lifts - Glute

- Lay on the floor with your legs bent and a band above your knees 
- Push through your heels bringing your glutes up
- Keeping your feet aligned with your knees 
- Push your legs out against the band and back in
- Ensure your movement against the resistance is smooth and controlled

Banded Glute bridge with abduction

- Holding your legs extended up with bands placed around lower legs
- Sit up and reach for your toes with both hands
- bring your shoulders slowly back down to the mat
- brace the core and lower one leg at a time with control
- one toe touch and two single leg lowers is one rep

Banded Lying toe touches + Leg Lowers

- Place band just above your knees
- Flex the hips to 45 degrees and the knees to approximately 90 degrees 
- Initiate the movement by abducting your top leg
- Push your knee away from the midline of your body                                                                                        
- Maintain contact between your feet throughout the movement
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Banded clamshells

- Place band around feet
- Pull your knee toward your chest while rotating your upper torso 
- Bring your opposite elbow to your knee 
- Repeat on the opposite side
- Focus on engaging your core

Banded Bicycle crunches

The Circuit

- Stand in a split stance one leg forward and your opposite foot straight back
- Bend your front knee so that it is at about a 90-degree angle
- Press down and drive the hips forward until you feel a stretch from the front of your hip
- Hold the stretch for about 20 to 30 seconds

Forward lunge stretch

- With feet shoulder width apart lift the right toes up and keeping the right leg straight hinge the hips back bend the left knee
- Lightly press down on the right quad the deepen the stretch
- slowly bring it back to starting and switch sides

Hamstring stretch

- While lying flat on a mat bring your left ankle to the right knee 
- bring your left hand in between the legs and you right hand to the outside of your right leg and interlace the fingers just behind the knee
- engage the core and slowly pull your knee and ankle towards your chest stretching out the hip flexors and glutes 
- hold for 20-30 seconds
- slowly bring the the right foot back to the mat and switch sides

Lying Figure 4 Stretch

- while seated in the ground legs straight out in front of you sitting up nice and tall
- pull the toes in toward a the body and hold for 10-20 seconds and slowly push the toes away from the body

Seated Calf Stretch

- standing nice and tall bend the right knee bringing the heel of the foot up to the right flute
- bring the knees close together and hold for 20-30 seconds
- slowly release the leg and switch sides

Bands, Booty & Core

More workouts from Miranda Criner