Name: Playbook - Morgan Olson - Mass Builder Arms & Abs 💪🏼
Uploaded: 2024-01-21T02:10:11.633Z
Duration: 80 min
Description: Mass Builder Arms & Abs 💪🏼

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NOTE: I added the smith machine chin up as a SUBSTITUTION for regular or assisted chin ups. Choose one or the other. 

Chin up: Lean back and load the biceps on the chin up.

GOAL
Just in case you are hanging from the edge of a cliff and have to heave your cute lil ass up #MissionImpossibleScene1 #Biceps

DETAILS
1. Begin the rep by activating your scapula and raising sternum towards ceiling. That is the start position.
2. Squeeze from biceps to raise.
3. Keep your sternum raised up to the ceiling.
4. Control the negative and repeat.

Pro-Tip: Your lower body can be strict and pointed or you can cross your legs. Play around with it and see what's comfortable. 

CUES
- Squeeze Your Biceps 
- Chest is Pointing Up Towards the Bar

Chin Up

GOAL
Focus on the bicep squeeze and shoulder blade retraction 

DETAILS
1. Hang from bar set at a height where your knees are bent at 90.
2. Externally rotate your shoulders and retract the shoulder blades. 
3. BEGIN the rep retracting your shoulder blades and squeezing your biceps. 
4. Focus on pulling with biceps and upper back.
5. Pull to when chin is over the bar. Control the descent. 
6. Use legs to press up as much or as little as needed. Usually using them more towards the end of the set for more reps. 

CUES
- Pull with the Elbows
- Chest Up
- Wear black

Smith Machine Assisted Chin Up

GOAL 
Amazing, just amazing. Great way to overload the triceps, chest and shoulders while getting a lot of volume 

DETAILS 
1. Stand facing a Smith machine bar or sturdy elevated platform at an appropriate height. 
2. Place your hands next to one another on the bar.
3. Position your feet back from the bar with arms and body straight. This will be your starting position.
4. Keeping your body straight, lower your chest to the bar by bending the arms.
5. Return to the starting position by extending the elbows, pressing yourself back up.

CUES - Right Triangle 
- Squeeze from Triceps 
- Strong Plank Position

Incline Close Grip Push Ups

Superset

GOAL
Sitting your ass down while doing the best thing on earth #Curling

DETAILS
1. Sit on a bench or chair. 
2. Shoulder are back. 
3. Squeeze from your bicep and push your elbow forward as you curl. 
4. Lower slowly. 
5. Burn out and you can do single arm curls until failure. 

CUES
- Proud Chest
- Squeeze Biceps

Seated Bicep Curl

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

The across the chest curl is essentially a dropset of the alternating hammer curl. Do 5 reps/until failure.

GOALS
Bicep builder that develops size and strength 

DETAILS
1. Stand tall with shoulder blades back and down.
2. Begin the curl by pushing the elbow forward and keeping the shoulder blade back.
3. Squeeze the bicep to curl the weight up just above the elbow.
4. Lower slow by actively pushing your elbow forward.
5. Repeat on the other side.
 CUES
- Elbow Forward
- Shoulder Blades Back
- Proud Chest 
- Squeeze Bicep

Alternating 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
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

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
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

Burner here! Exhale and relax. 

Aim for high intensity rounds. Take more rest to catch your breath if you need it.

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
Goddamn this is tough. But honestly we need weight to carve some abs in. Go as heavy as possible for the time allotted. 

DETAILS
1. Get on your hands and knees.
2. Add a weight plate or dumbbells on your mid back.
3. Have someone assist if needed.
4. Get in a perfect plank position.
5. Feet together, squeeze your butt and exhale through the pain.

CUES 
- Squeeze Butt
- Crunch Abs into Spine
- Hollow Rock

Weighted Plank

GOAL
Calorie burner
 
DETAILS 
1. Push and pull with your shoulder blades. 
2. Brace your abs and push max effort.

CUES
- Welcome Death

Air Dyne

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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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