Name: Playbook - Morgan Olson - W2/D4 Arms and Abs Shredder 😎
Uploaded: 2024-01-21T02:10:11.661Z
Duration: 70 min
Description: W2/D4 Arms and Abs Shredder 😎

Good lord, I forgot how much I loved that one. 🔥🔥🔥

Jess

Faith

Shellane

Did pike wit trx #productivetuesday❤️‍🔥🖖🏻✅

yangBAE

This was more like an hour and 45 minute workout for me 😅😅 both loved and hated every bit of it but feel good af now that it’s over 😇

Dada

Diana

Gbrla Prds

Katherine

Jasmine

Karen

Jamison

Really feeling the arm pump 💪💪! Defo need to work on my skipping skills tho spent most of the time hitting myself in the head with the rope 😂

Lauren

This was a tough one. Did this in my home gym that has a squat rack and attachments. Did land mines and ab roller in place of cable sit ups. Definitely feeling the bicep pump💪🏽

Stephanie

Dania

There’s always that one exercise to remind you what you did last time lol.

Nicole

You talk about core shreddding…. Well consider me shredded cheese

Shania

Great workout! Love a good bicep focused arms and abs day.

Mariona

Core is probably the worst and best part of this

Maddie

Jenny

Four

LOVED IT. One of my absolute favorite arm days. I continued to focus on form and add weight. I am such a fan of the workouts in this photo shoot challenge and I can’t wait to continue forward in this head space as I work the other programs. 💪🏻🔥

August

Mariah

Jennifer

Ashlee

My arms feel like they're going to explode 💥

PUMP!!! Tired by the end so didn’t do skipping :)

Christine

I miss this workout!! This is great ! A way to end the week!🔥🔥🔥

Louis

Courtney

Couldn't finish the workout today...fucked up & didn't drink enough water and got super nauseous & almost threw up twice 😅😅

Annamaria

Reps to failure got me Effed up !!! Loving it though

Jennifer Ginyard 

That jump rope was no child’s play ☠️ ☠️ ☠️

Thought I was done, coat on, bag packed and realized I still needed to jump rope 😜. Awesome!!

Dustie

Gretchen12

Ugh the reverse crunch. I’m like a walrus 😂 Hollow Rock mmm yup.
But🤌 on a good note.. I could not even “plank” a few months ago.
Everyone has a start. Trust the process. It’s inevitable to have progress with consistency. But with any program you have got to want to do it.People tend to want to do a program or be a part of something if they feel they belong.
Hope that makes sense❤️
Morgan brings that to the table.

Arms are feeling good, I’m seeing that pump already. Loving it. Don’t have a jump rope, and I enjoy running so I ran 1.5 miles instead. Great workout.

Bekki

Bethany

Crazy arms and abs day. It’s a great pump. 

Go slow in each set and focus on the squeeze. 

Cut the sets if it’s too much.

GOAL
Build up your pressing strength through proper positioning and high volume

DETAILS
1. Set hands right outside of shoulders on the dumbbell rack, couch or bench. 
2. Get in a tight plank position. No sagging your stomach or arching your lower back excessively.
2. Feet together, butt squeezed, ribs tucked and as you descend down into the push up squeeze your shoulder blades back. 
3. At the top of the rep, push away with your shoulder blades to get more movement in your serratus/scapula. 

Pro-Tip: #1 mistake is your elbow position. If your elbows track out, that's a no no. If you lose the Right Triangle in your elbow that's a no no. 

If that happens, it's because you're pressing "too high." Step closer to the bar or bench and touch the bar to below your sports bra with the elbows close to your rib cage. 

CUES
- Plank Position
- Squeeze the Shoulder Blades Back
- Right Triangle
- Bar/Bench Below Nips

Incline Push Ups

GOAL
Thicken that back and improve that posture

DETAILS
1. Holding a TRX strap in each hand, lean back and maintain tension through the strap.
2. Squeeze your butt and begin the movement by squeezing your shoulder blades back.
3. Pull your body toward the handles, bending at the shoulder and elbow until your elbows are bent at 90 degrees and your upper arm is aligned with your ribs.
4. Slowly lower your body back down while keeping your feet in place the entire time.

CUES
- Proud Chest
- Right Triangle
- Initiate From Shoulder Blades

TRX Row

GOAL
Build ab strength relative to your body weight 

1. Start in supine position.
2. Arms extend overhead.
3. Legs extend and press together.
4. Eliminate space below lumbar spine by contracting the abdominals. 
5. Rock in this position minimizing movement at the hip and shoulder.

CUES
- Point Toes
- Hollow Rock 
- Crunch Belly Button into Spine

Hollow Rock

Warm Up

GOAL
Focus on targeting that brachialis to contribute to arm thickness more so than just your biceps #SecretSauce

DETAILS
1. Begin the rep with a neutral/hammer grip and fully stretched arm. 
2. Elbow should be slightly in front of your hip, putting more stress on the bicep. 
3. Contract your bicep to raise the weight to your elbow. Curl slowly and focus on the squeeze. Relax the shoulder and just squeeze blood into your bicep.

Pro-Tip: Elbows don't flale, chest isn't overly activated, and you aren't rotating the weight at all. Straight up, straight down. 

CUES
- Elbows Close to Body
- Relax the Chest
- Shoulder Blades Pinned
- Squeeze at the Top

Hammer Curls

GOAL
This move will elevate every shirt you own. Making those arms irresistible to every human with eyes.

DETAILS
1. Grab a dumbbell in one hand. 
2. Stand tall, ribs tucked. Pretend your elbow is glued just outside your ribcage
3. Actively curl the weight across the chest, keeping the Right Triangle in your elbow. 
4. Think to push the weight back down with your tricep.
5. Repeat. Each rep squeeze that bicep like you're making lemonade. 

CUES
- Elbow Pinned to Rib
- Squeeze That Lemon
- Control Descent
- Wrist Neutral

Across the Chest Curls

GOAL
Load your elbow and triceps to increase your lockout strength #ElbowStrength

DETAILS

1. Lay flat on a bench, with a dumbbell in each hand.
2. Keep your palms facing each other and bend at the elbows so the dumbbells go toward your head, keeping your hands far enough apart that the dumbbells go to your ears.
3. Wrists are neutral and not getting broken by the weight.
4. You can either finish the rep fully or keep the elbow slightly bent and cycle back into the next rep. They both have their benefit. 

Note: you can do this on the floor if you don’t have a bench. 

CUES
- Elbows by Chin
- DB Comes to Forehead
- Wrists Neutral
- Be a Badass Cuz Most Guys Don't Even Do These

Dumbbell Skull Crushers

Superset

GOAL
Use gravity and eliminate momentum to blast those muscle fibers to shreds #Shredz

DETAILS
1. Grab those dumbbells in each hand, lay chest forward on an incline bench and scoot up to where you get a good strong position at the top. 
2. While straddling the bench, let the weight pull your arms to a dead hang. 
3. Begin to curl the weight up, only hinging at the elbow.
4. Use your spidey focus to keep the elbow directly below the shoulder and not letting that fucker creep back. Don't shorten the range by pushing the elbow back behind your shoulder. 
5. Now squeeze that ish.

Beware: Beware of web-like material squirting out of your wrists after these curls. So worth it. 

CUES
- Squeeze
- Stationary Elbow
- Elbow Directly Below Shoulder
- Control That Negative

Spider Curls

GOAL
Tricep sculptor  

DETAILS
1. Stand upright. Hips slightly back, proud chest. 
2. Push elbows forward.  Squeeze the rope down and extend the wrists away from each other. 
3. Keep resistance out of chest by reaching the elbows forward. 

CUES
- Squeeze from Tricep
- Proud Chest
- Hips Back

Rope Pushdown

Do pulse reps until failure on preacher curls.

GOAL
Isolate that elbow for bicep life 

DETAILS
1. Begin the rep with a supine and fully stretched arm. 
2. Contract your bicep to raise the weight to your elbow. Curl slowly and focus on the squeeze. Relax the shoulder and just squeeze blood into your bicep.

CUES
- Squeeze Bicep
- Exhale on the Pull

Preacher Curl Machine

GOAL
Squeeze those triceps until they look like horseshoes 

DETAILS
1. Lean over your knees.
2. Retract and depress your shoulder blades. 
3. Squeeze from your triceps to extend. 
4. Get an extra squeeze by thinking of extending the pinky towards the wrist. 
5. Come back to a right Triangle aka 90 degree bend. 

CUES
- Right Triangle 
- Proud Chest

Dumbbell Tricep Kickback

Aim for 10 on the reverse crunch but go to failure.

6 rounds. Go to failure and breathe.

GOAL
We’re thickening the density of your abdominal wall for a proper 6-pack. My favorite exercise for abs, ever. 

DETAILS
1. Use a close grip attachment and pick a challenging weight. 
2. Get on your hands and knees and walk back about 6 feet from the machine. 
3. Squeeze your elbows around your head. 
4. Hover over the space ahead of you. 
5. Begin by crunching the belly button into the spine. 
6. Find your balance and isolate the ab crunch. 
7. Avoid pushing the hips back towards your feet as you crunch. 

CUES 
- Hollow Rock
- Hover

Cable Crunch

GOAL
One of my favorite lower ab exercises - use that mind muscle connection to tuck your pelvis and contract the lower abs

1. Lie down on a decline bench with your legs fully extended and arms to the side of your torso with the palms on the floor. Your arms should be stationary for the entire exercise.
2. Move your legs up so that your thighs are perpendicular to the floor and feet are together. This is the starting position.
3. While inhaling, move your legs towards the torso as you roll your pelvis backwards and you raise your hips off the floor. 
4. Hold the contraction for a second and move your legs back to the starting position while exhaling.

CUES
- Crunch Abs into Belly Button 
- Knees Up to Ceiling

Decline Reverse Crunch

Core strength

GOAL
Increase coordination, flush lymph, strengthen your fast twitch muscle fibers, and increase speed #SoAthletic

DETAILS
1. Feet together.
2. Grab rope with wrists slightly in front of hips.
3. Thumbs face away from the body, shoulders are relaxed, and chin is neutral.
4. Hop low and quickly on your toes will whipping the rope with your wrists. 
5. Let the rope rotate around your body and jump as the wrists slap down.

Pro-Tip: The more relaxed you are, the longer you can keep your natural rhythm.
Pro-Tip II: Drop the rope. Jump low and fast and slap your hands on the front of your thighs. Double tap them to practice double unders. This simulates the timing and coronation needed to jump rope. After warming up with this, carry the same rhythm but just add the rope. 

CUES
- Hips In Place
- Posture is Upright AF
-Ribs Tucked

Jump Rope

W2/D4 Arms and Abs Shredder 😎

Naïka Champaïgne

I began this with the New year (bc it begins on Jan 3rd lol)

Im excited to see how far I can go this year

MARIANA

Daniela

W1/D1 New Year Legs 🎊

Lisaura

Izzy

Straight forward intro and can’t wait to start the challenge!

Gina

W1/D1 Photoshoot Fresh Challenge Intro

Doing this after a weekend where I was wrestling has me dead 💪🏽🥵

Wowza.
I had been months without working my shoulders like this!

I had to cut the cardio at the end, I was already maxed out.

W2/D4 Arms and Abs Shredder 😎

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