Name: Playbook - Morgan Olson - W3/D4 Arms & Abs 🔥
Uploaded: 2024-01-21T02:10:11.625Z
Duration: 75 min
Description: W3/D4 Arms & Abs 🔥

Emily

It feels good when you’ve been working hard and get to make some weight increases. Feeling stronger! 🎉

Katie

Louis

Alex

Natasha

Mena

Jules

Jaden

Hailey

Amber

Kylie

Robby

Abs feel good! Didn’t complete the last set 😔

Sarah

After my Grammy off weekend… feels amazing to be back! 🎉🫡

taya

Happy Thanksgiving! Thankful for you and your programs

Julia

Annamaria

End of week 3 and I feel the difference! Getting my strength back!!

Djé

Kysha

Feeling those bi-ceps today!  🪨💪🙌

Corbin

Yasmeen

Grateful everyday for these workouts. They keep me going 💪🏻

Andrea

I’m so happy with my arm transformation. Holding back big baby tears today!

Mads

I really enjoy these workouts but I hate skull crushers

Jessica

Z Barlow

I can’t feel my arms and my abs are broken. Kthanksloveyoubye.

Maria

My arms and core are gonna feel this tmrws #leggoooo

Skylar

Rebekah

💪🏽💪🏽Feeling and Looking Strong

Alexis

Mercedes

Rachel

Jodie

Can’t stop, won’t stop, 😆😆😂😂😂

DiManno Lynn Tiffany

Yayayayaya, 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼

I learned today that I obviously have never done a properly formed sit-up on a ball. According to the pain in my abs, my whole life is a lie. Thank you.

Cassie

Sarah Macon

Court

Amazing as always! Wish I could record my weight for each exercise and set though!

Even did the heavy bag🙌🏻👊🏻🥊

Christine

Epic close to week 3! These are some of my favorite exercises.

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
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

Superset.

Aim for a nice elbow lock and squeeze from the biceps. Don’t swing, squeeze.

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

Vascularity Maker

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

GOAL
There are more modifications to this than there are girls on your phone. There's no "one way" to curl, just some key principles. Get some blood flow to your biceps #CurlsForTheGirls

DETAILS
1. Begin the rep with your dumbbell supine aka palm is facing up towards the ceiling. 
2. Fully stretched out like a kitten in the sun, begin curling one arm by contracting the bicep. 
3. Bring the dumbbell just above elbow height and return to a fully stretched position. Hand can turn in at the bottom if pressure on the elbow is uncomfortable.  

Pro-Tip: Watch that your shoulder doesn't lift the weight. If you start raising your elbows forward and away from your rib cage, that is a sign your shoulder is being a controlling bitch. Instead, isolate that bicep. 

CUES
- Elbows Close to Body
- Don't Front Raise the Weights
- Initiate from Bicep not Shoulder
- Squeeze
- Full Stretch

Dumbbell Supine Curls

GOAL 
Full stretch of abs with a mind muscle connection to your 6-pack

DETAILS
1. Lay with your back on a physioball. 
2. Walk back to hang off the ball more.
3. Fully stretch your abdominals and mind muscle connect to your abs.
4. Sit up towards the ceiling, not just forward.
5. Exhale on the contraction.
6. Slowly lower to fully stretch. Repeat.

CUES
- Hollow Rock
- Crunch Abs into Spine 
- Sit Up Not Just Forward

Sit Ups on Ball

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

Superset

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 🥊

W3/D4 Arms & Abs 🔥

I enjoy Morgan’s workouts, but I have trouble following the instructions as a neurodivergent person. The writing has a lot of personality, which I understand the appeal of, but it clutters the information and makes it really hard for me to get to the core of what is being said. I often find I have to risk potentially having poor form, because it’s just too difficult to comprehend and absorb.

Great for someone who’s shy at the gym!! Definitely a great workout.

W1/D1 Chest & Shoulders 🔥

TIANA

W1/D2 Back

Definitely is more challenging than it looks! 🔥🔥

Sweet & consistent. Those banded glute bridges are NO JOKE! Solid burn

Toni 

Devin

W1/D3 Legs🦵🏼

Rosa

W1/D4 Arms & Abs

Slowing down the movements had me appreciating this pump 🔥

Working hard to get back after an upper respiratory infection took me out of everything for nine weeks. Still cough a lot and apparently throw up after a hard workout but I’m getting better little by little.

AC Michel

W2/D1 Chest & Shoulders

Everything was pretty tight today, but I think I'm getting better at it?

Abbey

W2/D2 Back 🥊

Denise

So happy I didn’t have to do this in a public gym 😂

Elise

W2/D3 Legs

Going to have nightmares about that incline skull crusher ☠️

I'm outta shape baaaad. Glad I'm doing this with my gym bud Jordyn!

Drea

It was so good! Feels great to be in the gym again. Arm day is always one of my favourites and the pump for this workout was AMAZING! 🔥🙌🏼

Jordyn

W2/D4 Arms & Abs

Shannon

Kalena

Carly

W3/D1 Chest & Shoulders

Have to cut things short bc of 8 mos of gf weight gain ;) and a serious loss of strength (I’m 47). Beginning the slow slog back. Love the workouts 🙏🏼

W3/D4 Arms & Abs 🔥

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