Name: Playbook - Morgan Olson - W2/D2 Pull Power⛓️
Uploaded: 2023-01-23T22:13:41.482Z
Duration: 65 min
Description: W2/D2 Pull Power⛓️

Fantastic, love the design of these workouts!

Lindsay

Patrick Gilmore

Sherie

Angela

Faith

Marci

Beck

Jaden Latiwa

Pumped! I appreciated how this workout allowed me to hit such a wide variety of muscles. 🔥

August

Loving the pull up work and the barbell rows. Next investment- wrist straps. 💪🏽🏋🏽‍♀️🔥

Stephanie

I almost didn't workout today and I am so glad I made it. 

This has been a big challenge and I am taking it one step at a time

Mariana

Loveee a good pull / back day. Upped the weight on lots of the exercises, feeling hella strong 💪🏼

Alex

Loved it. Good little pull day - feeling strong. Missed those bench rows!

Nicole

Luca

Now anything rows I absolutely hate but this was so much fun

Vanessa

I’m behind & my body is tired 😪 I did my best today

Annamaria

Michelle

Mahsa

Ashley

Sadie

Totally got a bicep cramp at the end… but powered through 💪🏼

Kallie 

That finisher was a killer but the pump is amazing

Erika

Izzy

Gabs

A little sore from yesterday, but feeling good 👍🏽

Aleeya

Love pull day!! Modifying a few for back purposes but for sure one of my fav so far! 🔥🔥🔥

Stefani

Jeannine

Felt solid today, have my arm veins popping out

Mercedez

Rosalba

Love being able to flex my cable crunch abilities. 🤣🤣

Danielle

Didn’t get to finish (packed gym probs) but great workout 👏🏾

Brijhae

Diana

Abby

Court

Oof! Feels so good! Starting to see the gains!

Kelly Backes

Allie

Lol! For the 1st half the analogy of “Congratulations, San Fransisco, you ruined pizza!” ran through my mind. Then I got in the grove and enjoyed my beloved Pull Day. 😂

Euan

Abbie

Ashton

Louis

Shanna

Four

Marina

Chest high on the pull work today. Focus on depressing the shoulder blades when you’re lifting - think of crunching your armpit to your hip.

GOAL
Death. Jk…power, fat burning cardio + you may or may not see the light #Ouch

DETAILS
1. Grab the handles of the ski erg and set resistance dial between 7-10. 
2. Start your stokes by using your hips and legs to drive the power. 
3. First position squat position, get on toes, tall reach.  
4. Second, drive down into a squat with a follow from your arms. 
5. Focus on using the hips. 
6. Drive up, throw your hips back and down and follow with arms. 

Swap for row erg, air dyne or sprints if your gym doesn’t have this. 

CUES
- Breathe
- Strong Core
- Tip Toes 
- Leg Drive

Ski Erg

GOAL 
Boulder upper back and scapular health

DETAILS
1. Stand tall.
2. Grab the ends of resistance bands with your thumbs pointing away from each other.
3. Begin by slowly pinching between your shoulder blades and depressing your shoulders. 
4. Keep thumbs out and avoid shrugging.
 CUES
- Depress & Retract Shoulder Blades 
- Thumbs Out
- Slow

Resistance Band Pull Aparts

GOAL
Power + speed 

DETAILS
1. Stand a few inches in front of the box
2. Slightly bend knees and push out slightly. 
3. Swing arms behind you. 
4. Throw arms up to propel the jump. 
5. Extend hips and knees to accelerate out the bottom. 
6. Land softly on box. 
7. Aim to throw all your momentum up and forward, not down on the box. 
8. Step down, alternating sides. 

CUES
- Throw Arms Up
- Soft Landing
- Exhale

Box jumps

GOAL
Wake up with rotation + power #CNS

1. Set cable to lowest height. 
2. Get in a staggered stance (ex left foot fwd, right arm row)
3. Bend knees to feel grounded. 
4. Rotate opposite arm forward and back while rowing back. 
5. Think of pulling as hard and quick as you can. 
6. Rotate through the upper back. 

CUES
- Staggered Feet
- Rotate
- Exhale
- Power 
- Tuck Chin

Lawnmower Row

CNS Warm Up 2

GOAL
Wider back for smaller hips and waist

DETAILS
1. Set resistance. The heavier = the easier. 
2. Arms straight and wide grip. 
3. Externally rotate your shoulder. Think of showing your arm pits.
4. Begin by retracting your shoulder blades back and down.
5. Squeeze the elbows out and think of tucking them into your pockets. 
6. With a proud chest reach the top, lower slow. 
7. Repeat. 

CUES
- Show the Armpits
- Shoulder Blade Retraction & Depression
- Proud Chest

Assisted Pull Ups

GOAL
Wider back for a tighter waist and strong look

DETAILS 
1. You will start by grabbing the wide bar from the top pulley of a pulldown machine and using a wider than shoulder-width pronated (palms down) grip. Step backwards two feet or so.
2. Bend your torso forward at the waist by around 30-degrees with your arms fully extended in front of you and a slight bend at the elbows. If your arms are not fully extended then you need to step a bit more backwards until they are. Once your arms are fully extended and your torso is slightly bent at the waist, tighten the lats and then you are ready to begin.
3. While keeping the arms straight, pull the bar down by contracting the lats until your hands are next to the side of the thighs. Breathe out as you perform this step.
4. While keeping the arms straight, go back to the starting position while breathing in.

CUES
- Proud Chest
- Squeeze Armpits

Rope Straight Arm Pushdown

Fly Away 🦢

GOAL
Attack that back, use the bench to lift more weight to give the lower back a rest

DETAILS
1. Straddle a bench with a barbell over it.
2. Add necessary weight *using a rack helps* 
3. Straddle bench and squeeze the bench with thighs
4. Hinge over and push your hips back.
5. Flat back, brace abs and begin by pulling the bar to your belly button. 
6. As the weight is heavy, use the bench to rest the bar and reset your position.
7. Squeeze from your shoulder blades each rep.
 CUES
- Proud Chest
- Flat Back
- Brace Abs
- Shoulder Blade Retraction & Depression

Bench Barbell Row

GOAL
Pull back to strengthen your retraction muscles aka traps, rear delts, erectors

DETAILS
1. Cable band is set to right at shoulder height.
2. Retract scapulas back by pulling with your elbows. 
3. At the end of the rep, your wrists are slightly above your elbows. It's almost a half scarecrow position or like a "Put your hands up" type position.
4. Control the negative and return to the start keeping your shoulder blades retracted. 

Side note: This is a very weak position and harder than just a typical row so don't be afraid to go lighter and more for blood flow.

CUES
- Retract & Depress Shoulder Blades
- Wrists above Elbows
- Proud Chest

Face Pulls

Rows & Stuff 1

GOAL
Scapular depression aka lat work for a wider back and narrow waist 

DETAILS
1. Place a dumbbell standing up on a flat bench.
2. Lie perpendicular to the bench (torso across it as in forming a cross) with only your shoulders lying on the surface.
3. Grasp the dumbbell with both hands and hold it straight over your chest at arms length. Both palms should be pressing against the underside one of the sides of the dumbbell. This will be your starting position, make sure the weight is secure.
4. While keeping your arms straight, lower the weight slowly in an arc behind your head while breathing in until you feel a stretch on the armpit.
5. At that point, bring the dumbbell back to the starting position by depressing your shoulder blades, using the arc through which the weight was lowered and exhale as you perform this movement.
6. Hold the weight on the initial position for a second and repeat the movement. 

CUES
- Initiate with Scapula 
- Squeeze Your Butt
- Slightly Bend Elbows

Dumbbell Pull Overs

GOAL
The holy grail of rowing. It focuses on scapula retraction and spinal extension #BangForYourBuck

DETAILS

1. With the opposing knee and hand resting on a bench, let the dumbbell fall directly below that boulder shoulder of yours. 
2. Stiffen/extend your spine. Rounding of the spine inhibits proper shoulder blade retraction/depression.
3. Square up your shoulders.
4. Initiate the first inch of the movement by squeezing/depressing your armpit. Think of "crunching" your armpit to your hip. 
4. Pull elbow to hip, think like you're starting a lawnmower like the little badass you are.
4.When pulling, keep the right triangle bend in your elbow. 

Pro-Tip: Dumbbell moves in an arc or "C" shape from below shoulder to front of hip.

CUES
- Initiate with Scapula 
- Chest is Squared Up
- Flat Back

Dumbbell Lat Row

Rows & Stuff 2

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
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

Beach Ready 🕶️

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Branching out with your programs. On the recovery from an ACL surgery last May. Was in tip top shape with your Fighter program prior to injury.  Put on 30 pounds while down. I’m an avid cyclist. Never been over 130-135. Sitting at a nice 163 now, trimming inches. Feels good. The number doesn’t matter anymore. Seeing progress. Any tips are appreciated.

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I’m so excited to get started! Right program, right time. I need this!

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Katherine

Nice full body workout! 
Great way to start the day.

Betina

W1/D1 Full Body Fresh 💪🏼

Great workout! I could actually feel the burn!

Ashley Bowers

W1/D2 Back Attack 🧨

Maite

W1/D3 Thicc Leg Day 🦵🏼

Two of the exercises were the same? What’s the difference between the two lateral arm raises?

Amanda

Tupac + Wildfang + Hulk Smash Day = I feel hawt!!!!

W1/D4 Hulk Push Day 😝

Doing this challenge again. Week 1 (pt 2) down 💪🏼

W1/D5 Mental Toughness Friday 1

Still feeling strong. Those 5x5 deadlifts and benches getting easier and easier!

Krist

W2/D1 Funky Fresh😎

W2/D3 New Butt Stuff 🍑

Sam Figiel

Salsa

W2/D4 Push it Real Good🎸

I am sooo full of energy after this. Thank you!

Good, needs another movement. Or an alternate to the 10 calorie row if you don’t have something to track a 10 calorie burn.

W2/D5 Mental Toughness Friday 2

Shawna Black

W3/D1 Full Body Effect 😊

Sweating my life away after that one 🥵

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W3/D3 Legs For Days

This one should’ve been called “trembling triceps” 💀 💪

W3/D4 🌸Pushin' Daisies💀

That last round was dead, ready to stop at 6 rounds but pushed through.

Shannon

Burned 580 cal and an avg HRT rate of 150.Let’s fucking go!

Rayvonne

W3/D5 Mental Toughness Fridays 3

Shoulder burn!! Feeling stronger and hungry!!

W4/D1 Mass Effect 👽

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Efjan

Loved this one, especially the staggered DL's.

W4/D3 Legendary Derriere

W4/D4 imPRESSive

W4/D5 Mental Toughness Friday 4

Great work out. Still frustrated trying to find a good alternative to match a ski erg machine. Even at 2 gyms I go to don’t have them. Unless I pay to go to a specialty gym or a CrossFit one. Either way, love the combination of movements. Struggled a little in the medicine ball and work.

That last set was rough. Harder than mental fitness Friday last week.

Amber Lawrence

W5/D1 Full Flex

It was a killer one.
I think that's what I've said about each day for the past two weeks.

Am I enjoying the gym? Am I starting to look forward to gym time?

THANK YOU MOMO

W5/D2 Twitchy Lats 🎮

Christi

W5/D3 Squats and the City🍸

I began this challenge dreading shoulders day and now... now I crave for it

W5/D4 Pecs For Life

Love this programming and the new features on the app 🎊

Aoife

Thanks for helping me deal with my anger in a manner that doesn't involve murder 🤪

W5/D5 Mental Toughness Friday 5

I finally completed a full set of 8 mil presses!!! I could only do 3 at the beginning, and that's with the push from the legs!

W6/D1 Final Fresh Full Body

I really never thought I would like back day. I'm so much stronger now than I was 8 weeks ago (because I took breaks😅)

What in the BACK what that 🥵🥵 #swole

W6/D2 🦕Jurassic Back🦖

W6/D3 Last Leg Day

Well I needed this. 

I really has to modify most of the moves because the gym is packed. Anyway this was amazing!!

Megan Rose

That was some good pushin!!!🔥🔥💪🏻💪🏻

W6/D4 Pushin' Depletes

Finally done, a few days late but I’m proud to finish at all!!🖤

That’s a wrap!🔥🔥💪🏻✌🏻✌🏻

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