Name: Playbook - Morgan Olson - W5/D4 Pecs For Life
Uploaded: 2024-01-21T02:10:11.851Z
Duration: 65 min
Description: W5/D4 Pecs For Life

Rachel Flores

Deb Livingston

The push-ups at the end tho…. 🔥🔥💪

Salsa

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

MARIANA

Christi

Allie

Damn! I want some more 🥹🔥💪🏻💪🏻😉

Louis

Ashton

This was amazing 🤩 worked on form and felt super solid

Kallie 

Loving all thr cable work!! Just wish my gym had more than one set of cables!

True burn! I didn’t expect the alternating chest presses to be so hard but oh my god they were intense

Vanessa

The blood flows’th 🤌🏽❤️‍🔥

Steph

EXCELLENT pump (and just before an actual photoshoot too 😮‍💨🫱🏼‍🫲🏽)

Alex

Nicole

Really focused on form and the squeeze. Chest pump was great!

Stephanie

Today was tough but I absolutely loved it. Feeling huge!

August

Rosalba

Annamaria

Upper weights on the skull crushers! But, man!…those alt db bench presses got me!

Kelly Backes

I haven’t been this sore and tired since week 1!! Feeling stronger though! 🔥

Gabriel

Marina

I was dreading going to the gym this morning because sore from leg day but this was a good one 🤠😮‍💨

Nikki

The residual soreness from this week kicked my ass, but feeling my pecs is amazing!

Mads

Discipline over motivation is the motto for this week🥲

Four

Now that your shoulders are mobilized, make sure your doing your frog stretches and squat stretches every workout. I don't just put stuff in the warmup for fun. Frog stretches help with hip mobility, knee pain, and helps with hip flexibility. All that helps posture... and your bedroom game #sexualhealth. Squat stretches will help with your ankle range of motion, loosens muscles, helps the hips, and helps the posture. Walk tall, babes+bros.

GOAL
Increase coordination, flush lymph, strengthen your fast twitch muscle fibers, and increase speed #SoAthletic

DETAILS
1. Feet together.
2. Grab rope with wrists slightly in front of hips.
3. Thumbs face away from the body, shoulders are relaxed, and chin is neutral.
4. Hop low and quickly on your toes will whipping the rope with your wrists. 
5. Let the rope rotate around your body and jump as the wrists slap down.

Pro-Tip: The more relaxed you are, the longer you can keep your natural rhythm.
Pro-Tip II: Drop the rope. Jump low and fast and slap your hands on the front of your thighs. Double tap them to practice double unders. This simulates the timing and coronation needed to jump rope. After warming up with this, carry the same rhythm but just add the rope. 

CUES
- Hips In Place
- Posture is Upright AF
-Ribs Tucked

Jump Rope

GOAL
Get those movement mechanics warmed up by sitting those hips baaaack #GoodForm

DETAILS
1. Set rope to lowest height. 
2. Walk forward about 3 steps.
3. Wide stance for balance. 
4. Keep rope close to groin. 
5. Send hips back with knees slightly bent. 
6. Back is flat thru entire movement with chin tucked. 
7. Stand + squeeze your glutes. 
8. Lean slightly forward to maintain balance. 

CUES 
- Hips Back 
- Flat Back
- Knees Bent 
- Squeeze

Rope Hip Hinge

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 Warmup 1

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
Isolate the chest for confident posture and a striated chest

DETAILS
1. Set cables to shoulder height.
2. Begin by taking a lunge stance. 
3. Proud chest, slightly bend elbows, and externally rotate your shoulders.
4. Start with handles touching together and squeeze your chest as hard as possible. 
5. Slowly release and lower back. Keeping elbows slightly bent and the tension in the chest.
6. Squeeze the handles back together. 
7. Don’t overpower with your shoulders. Aka don’t shrug. 

CUES
- Proud Chest
- Sternum Up
- Externally Rotate
- Squeeze from Your Chest

Cable Chest Flys

Terminator🦾

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. Keep one arm extended. Lower slowly on one side, 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.
8. Alternate arms. 

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

Alternating Dumbbell Bench Press

GOAL
Strong scapular function and upper back

DETAILS
1. Stand tall with a dumbbell on each hand (palms facing your torso), arms extended on the sides.
2. Lift the dumbbells by elevating the shoulders as high as possible while you exhale. Hold the contraction at the top for a second. Tip: The arms should remain extended at all times. Refrain from using the biceps to help lift the dumbbells. Only the shoulders should be moving up and down.
3. Lower the dumbbells back to the original position.
4. Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

CUES - Squeeze Shoulders up to Ears
- Mind Muscle Connect

Dumbbell Shrugs

Traps & Pecs

GOAL
Lateral shoulders with better angle 

DETAILS
1. Set up a low cable with handle. 
2. Pick 5-10lbs, lean and grab the pole. 
3. Depress shoulder blades and relax. 
4. Squeeze shoulder to lift handle to shoulder height.
5. Lower slowly. 
6. Repeat. 

CUES
- Proud Chest
- Retract & Depress Shoulder Blades

Leaning Cable Lateral Raise

GOAL
Front shoulders with maximum tension 

DETAILS
1. Set up a low cable with handle. 
2. Pick 5-10lbs. 
3. Depress shoulder blades and relax. 
4. Squeeze shoulder to lift handle to shoulder height.
5. Lower slowly. 
6. Repeat. 

CUES
- Proud Chest
- Retract & Depress Shoulder Blades

Cable Front Raise

Shoulder Pump

GOAL
A lil twist to the skull crushers - finish with the palm forward + keep the elbows more behind your chin #Crushed

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. Extend by squeezing the tricep + twist so your palm is forward.

Note: you can do this on the floor if you don’t have a bench. 

CUES
- Elbows Above Chin
- DB Comes to Forehead
- Wrists Neutral
- Be a Badass Cuz Most Guys Don't Even Do These

Dumbbell Skull Crushers w/ a Twist

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

Arm Burner

W5/D4 Pecs For Life

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.

Carrington Vercher

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

Tobias

PHOTOSHOOT FRESH 2.0 CHALLENGE STARTS 1/9

April

Patricia Sessa

Charlie Oak

Challenge Debrief

Tessa

Switched from the fighter feed to start this today and 🥵🥵🥵 is all I can say. Exactly the switch up I needed. This full body hits DIFFERENT

Charly Barnett

Trap bar deadlift may be my favorite 🥵🙌

Sarah

W1/D1 Full Body Fresh 💪🏼

W1/D2 Back Attack 🧨

McKenzie

W1/D3 Thicc Leg Day 🦵🏼

Those lateral raises get me burning every. damn. time. 🥵

W1/D4 Hulk Push Day 😝

Hoyt

Big oof. This one was killer on the arms💪🏼

W1/D5 Mental Toughness Friday 1

Kate

W2/D1 Funky Fresh😎

W2/D2 Pull Power⛓️

Angela

W2/D3 New Butt Stuff 🍑

One week off from being sick. I missed the burn 🔥

Omg I took a long rest and this was brutal. The upside: now I can do 50 jump ropes without pausing and the downside: I am not going to be able to lift my arms tomorrow 🤭

Sam Figiel

W2/D4 Push it Real Good🎸

W2/D5 Mental Toughness Friday 2

Redoing the photoshoot fresh series- I missed this!

Crystal

I loved it. I'm still lifting the same weight as last week, but upped the reps a little bit, it was challenging! Though in a different way

W3/D1 Full Body Effect 😊

I woke up late and seriously considered not coming to the gym. I made it and I have upped the weight I can lift :D

W3/D2 Superhero Pull Day🐲

Anna

W3/D3 Legs For Days

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

Shawna Black

W3/D4 🌸Pushin' Daisies💀

Krista

Added to end of week 3 masc challenge 🥵

W3/D5 Mental Toughness Fridays 3

W4/D1 Mass Effect 👽

Luca

W4/D2 Pullin' Tail🦊

Efjan

Loved this one, especially the staggered DL's.

W4/D3 Legendary Derriere

W4/D4 imPRESSive

W4/D5 Mental Toughness Friday 4

The amount of cave person sounds i made was more than appropriate 😜

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 🎮

W5/D3 Squats and the City🍸

Love getting the heart rate up from the get-go

Love this programming and the new features on the app 🎊

Aoife

W5/D5 Mental Toughness Friday 5

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

W6/D4 Pushin' Depletes

That was more like an insanity challenge 🤪

I don’t think I would have been able to do the ab wheel out at the start of the challenge. Feel great! Thank you

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