Name: Playbook - Morgan Olson - W2/D2 Shoulders & Tris
Uploaded: 2024-01-21T02:10:11.519Z
Duration: 75 min
Description: W2/D2 Shoulders & Tris

Jenna

Always a great workout! Love love your program

Angelika

Andrea

Ingrid

Katha

Rosalba

Wood chops video and description didn’t quite match I just did wood chops how I usually do 😬

Kayla

Maia

Couldn’t do boxing since no access to a bag but rest of workout was really great

Hannah

Last set of chopping wood has wrong cute to start. Should say start at lowest notch.

Jamie

Nathalie

Back from Vegas- I’m sweating gin and tonics 🤣

Christine

Tiffany

Kate

Courtney

My fiancé joined in with 
W today. Now we’re both dead 😜

Alex

Alexis

Melissa

Our upstate NY gyms aren't the same as those LA ones.... that punching bag may as well be an Olympic lap pool 😝

Brianne

Brook

Oops! Accidentally tapped 4 instead of 5 stars! Can’t blame me my arms are dead from this workout! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Angel

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
You're only as good as your weakest arm. Unilateral pressing to develop strong pecs, shoulders, and triceps 

DETAILS
1. Start sitting upright on a bench. Dumbbell on each knee with a 90 degree elbow.
2. Use your knee to hike the weights up to your chest height as you lay back on the bench. 
3. Immediately press out of the first rep, that may be the trickiest part.
4. Elbows are 45 degrees angle your body and you got that right triangle in yo elbow. 
5. Control the weight as it descends. Lower elbows to parallel or just below for happy shoulders and strength building.
6. As you're pressing up, squeeze the chest.  
7. Wrist is directly over elbow. And wrist is neutral. 

CUES
- Heels Grounded
- Elbows Just to Parallel
- Shoulder Blades Back and Down
- Wrists Neutral

Dumbbell Bench Press

GOAL
Dumbbell press with rotation 

1. With back on bench, get a proud chest and lock in the dumbbells with elbows at 45 degrees from your body.
2. With an underhand position, begin to press the dumbbells overhead while rotating your shoulders internally. 
3. After a second pause at the top, begin to lower the dumbbells to the original position by rotating the palms of your hands towards you. 
4. Lower slow, pause and press to repeat. 

CUES
- Proud Chest
- Strong Press 
- Slow Negative

Incline Bench Arnold Press

GOAL
Burn em brah. This is the optimal exercise for building rounder shoulders to trick people into thinking you have a tinier waist and just to look shredded

DETAILS
1 Start at the hip and raise up to the shoulders. The dumbbells should be a few inches in front of your body to move in your scapular plane.
2. Elbows are bent at 90 degrees  you're initiating the movement with your shoulders.
3. Proud chest and lower slowly. 

Pro-Tip: use momentum to overload our the muscle with a little heavier weight 

CUES
- Retract Shoulder Blades
- Elevated Sternum 
- Reach Away

Bent Arm Lateral Raise

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
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

GOAL
Athletic advantage, injury prevention and oblique shredder

DETAILS
1. Set up a cable above shoulder height or at bottom. 
2. Grab the end with both arms extended. 
3. Start with shoulders, hips, and feet square/straight forward. 
4. Rotate the torso away from the anchor point, keeping the hips square. 
5. Then, chop that wood by rotating torso towards your hip and slightly towards the ground.
6. Squeeze abs & exhale. Return slowly to start position. Repeat. 

Pro-Tips: Ribs are tucked and you compress/crunch your abs a little. Back foot pivots as you chop. Hips can rotate or stay stationary, whichever gives you a better ab squeeze. 

CUES
- Squeeze Butt
- Rotate Torso
- Tuck Ribs
- Crunch Ribs to Hip Slightly
- Straight Arms Whole Time

Wood Chop

1. Wrap your hands and wear 14-16 oz boxing gloves. 
2. Freestyle box on a heavy bag.
3. Use your footwork and head movement to simulate dodging punches.
4. Work on hip connection to bag, neutral wrist, and speed.

The Fighter Cheat Sheet: 
* 1-2 (Jab-Right cross) 
* 1-1-2 (Jab-Jab-Cross) 
* 1-2-3 (Jab-Cross-Left hook) 
* 1-2-3-2 (Jab-Cross-Hook-Cross) 
* 1-2-5-2 (Jab-Cross-Left uppercut-Cross) 
* 1-6-3-2 (Jab-Right uppercut-Left hook-Right hand) 
* 2-3-2 (Right cross-Left hook-Right cross)

Heavy Bag Freestyle 🥊

W2/D2 Shoulders & Tris

Just started surfer 2.0 and loving it already. So, so good

Adeela

Camille

W1/D1 Legs 🦵🏼

Jessica

W1/D2 Shoulders & Triceps

2 arm days back to back is a killerrrrrr!! I'd like to see the supersets use the same equipment, because my gym is always busy and hard to bounce around from spot to spot without losing the machine/space

Not a good day to leave my water bottle ! 🥴 A Burpee to Plank ration with no rest in between is crazy ! 😫😭 Good ass work ! 🔥💪🏾

Kysha

W1/D3 Back & Bis

Talisa Walter

This first week of the surfer program has been everything I needed for a new challenge! I'm so motivated to keep going 💪

Chloe

W1/D4 Booty & Abs

Great one but because my gym doesn’t have a sissy squat machine find it difficult to find alternatives, so would love if that could be included which alts would be good for it

W2/D1 Legs 🦵🏼

That’s sprint was an awesome finisher to a very good workout.

Amanda

W2/D3 Back & Bis

Feeling the burn in my ass and abs! I mos def felt challenged!

Rachel Flores

2 wks off is crazyyyy ! 🥴 Back at it nonetheless ! 💪🏾😤 Let’s Goooo !

W2/D4 Booty & Abs

Dominique

Odineth

W3/D1 Legs 🦵🏼

Would be nice to get some tips what I van do instead of heavy bag, since in a lot of gym we dont have that. I did sky machine today, but I’m curious what is your advice.

Fanny

Georgia

Fell off for a bit but finally got back to it a d this was the best way to start it off! Shoulders bi tri back all of it on 🔥🔥

W3/D2 Shoulders & Tris

I’m not good at burpees, and I had to take some breaks in between, but I did all 4 rounds!

Sharon Braddock

W3/D3 Back & Bis

Love everything about this. Bulgarian split squats are my fave

Abby

W3/D4 Booty & Abs

W4/D1 Legs 🦵🏼

Lindsay

W4/D2 Shoulders & Triceps

I really didn’t want to do sprints at the end but I’m committed to not skipping/subbing anything!

W4/D3 Back & Bis

Thanks it was awesome! I’m wondering which training could be good for me now, I finished the two surfer types :)

First time I've ever made it through a program! Perfectly paced!

W2/D2 Shoulders & Tris

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