Name: Playbook - Morgan Olson - Arms and Abs
Uploaded: 2024-01-21T02:10:11.872Z
Duration: 80 min
Description: Arms and Abs

Dania

I love this workout! My arms feel amazing 🤩

Sophia

Louis

Katherine

Maurice

Nicole

Bekki

GOAL
Refining your ab and shoulder stability

DETAILS
1. Starting in a perfect plank position on your elbows, press up to your hands by starting with one arm. 
2. Aim to minimize rocking of the spine and lower back.
3. Squeeze your butt and crunch your abs into your spine.
4. Lower back down gradually to elbows.
 CUES
- Squeeze Butt
- Crunch Abs
- Protract Shoulder Blades

Plank Ups

GOAL
V-line maker 

DETAILS
1. Start in a perfect side plank. Feet stacked on top of each other & elbow under shoulder. 
2. Squeeze your butt hard and create tension in your obliques. 
3. Slowly drop your hip towards the ground and squeeze oblique to raise up to neutral.
4. Repeat. Be sure to lower slow & squeeze, not just bounce and relax. 

Reps are per side.

CUES
- Slow
- Squeeze
- Palm Down for Stability

Side Plank Bends

GOAL
Shoulder burner 

DETAILS
1. Circle the arms around with thumbs turned up.
2. Make sure you move from the shoulders.
3. Don’t shrug up.
4. The more you move your shoulders, the harder the shoulders will work. 
5. Do small, tight circles and medium bigger circles.
 CUES
- Move from Shoulders
- Chest Up
- Don’t Shrug

Arm Circles

Warm Up

GOAL
So much concentration required on these you're going to be feeling like Yoda. No dilution needed. Lock in your elbow to prevent shoulder movement and just use that bicep #UseTheForce

DETAILS
1. With a dumbbell, sit down, and lock your elbow on the inside of your knee. 
2. Position your shoulder directly over your locked in elbow.
3. Begin rep by squeezing your bicep, only the forearm moves. 
4. Finish the rep with the dumbbell just above the middle of your bicep. 

Pro-Tips: Your chest can be tilted up more or level, whatever feels good. 

CUES

- Lock in Elbow
- Relax Shoulder
- Dead Hang
- Squeeze Hard at the End
- Sell Tickets to Gun Show

Concentration Curl

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
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
Isolate that elbow for bicep life 

DETAILS
1. Begin the rep with a supine 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.
4. Keep your chest proud. 

CUES
- Elbows Push Forward
- Relax the Chest
- Shoulder Blades Pinned Back and Done 
- Squeeze at the Top

EZ Bar Cable Curl

GOAL
Sculpted arms

DETAILS
1. Set cable to high setting. 
2. Stand with proud chest, hips push back slightly and shoulder blades back. 
3. Elbow forward, squeeze from tricep. 
4. Flex the wrist aka the pinkey toward your forearm. 
5. Slowly come back to starting point. 

CUES
- Right Triangle 
- Proud Chest

Single Arm Tricep Pushdown

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 the floor 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 and parallel to the floor. 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

Reverse Crunch

Core strength

Non-stop. Ultimate blood flow to abs for that 6-pack abs.

GOAL
6-pack body weight edition, just make sure to crunch your abs and not sit up with your neck #ProTips

DETAILS
1. Lay on your back with your knees bent.
2. Begin my crunching your abs into your spine with your wrists dragging up your quads.
3. Crunch up to raise your wrists up to the knees.
4. Move slow and work from the abs not momentum.

Wrist to Knees

GOAL
Lower ab shredder - lift with the abs, not the hips 

DETAILS
1. Lay with your legs straight up, point your toes like a ballerina and glue your lower back to the floor.
2. Keeping your arms straight by your sides, or under your hips, slowly lower your legs to the floor until your lower back begins to arch. 
3. Mind muscle connect to your abs and crunch your abs to return to the starting position.

CUES
- Hollow Rock 
- Crunch Abs into Spine

Lying Leg Lifts

GOAL
Get those V-line obliques by looking like a weirdo #WorthIt

DETAILS
1. Lay on your back. 
2. Bend your knees and place heels far enough where you have a good range of motion on the movement.
3. Crunch your abs into your spine and slightly elevate the shoulders off the ground.
4. Straighten out your arms and begin by touching your ankle with one arm. 
5. Move slow and intentionally aim to contract the obliques. 
6. Repeat on the other side.

Ankle Biters

GOAL
V-lines baby 
 DETAILS
1. On your butt, bend your legs at the knees.
2. Get a proud upright chest. 
3. Twist your torso and punch through with the fist.
4. Hold the contraction for a second and move back to the starting position while breathing out. Repeat on the other sides.

CUES - Proud Chest
- Squeeze Abs
- Exhale on the Punch

Torso Twist

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Charlie

I was craving tearing my arms apart….this did the trick😂🔥

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Summer Shredded Arms and Abs 😉

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Arms and Abs Killer 🔥

Angela

Yooooo 🔥🔥🔥 that arm pump is blessed!

Breen

My go-to vacation workout, easy and to the point! Love hitting arms while away!!

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