Name: Playbook - Niki SugarySixpack - Week 2 day 3 cardio + core
Uploaded: 2024-03-28T18:05:09.058Z
Duration: 35 min
Description: Week 2 day 3 cardio + core

Hanna

I loved this workout! Challenging but so much fun!

Victoria

Raeanne

Another killer workout! It's crazy how time seems to fly while doing these workouts!

Coraima Henderson

Elisa

Agnieszka

Emily

So great! So hard, nice, quick, efficient work out to start my day! Thank you!

Sonoe Oft

Every day is a good day!! Never can’t wait to workout with you!! 🤗

Pamela

The moves didn’t look super challenging but my lungs would say otherwise! 😅

Courtney

I just started back on maternity leave and hardly finding time for myself but this quickie 35 min cardio & core was perfect

Whitney

Love it!
I am supposed to go 45/rest 15 throughout the circuit, correct?

Anamaria

Laura

Just what I needed to start the year off right!

Emma

Use rest interval between each exercise during intervals.

Need:
Yoga mat
Chair/box/bench/step

Butt kicks
-Go as quickly as you feel comfortable and can land lightly
-Core breathing through the movement
-Keep length through the torso with hips, ribs and head stacked

Butt kicks

-Keep feet quick but close to the floor for low impact
-Very slight hip hinge back
-Core works with breath throughout movement

Fast feet

-Exhale, connect to core and rotate from the hip
-Think of a line from your pivoting foot to hip to opposite shoulder
-Core works with breath through the movement
-Light length through the body

Twist & pivot

-Keep length through the torso
-Legs and arm don’t have to touch
-Keep controlled motion, avoid flinging limbs

Zombies

-Hips, ribs and head are stacked with a light length through the body
-Core stays connected through the movement, still breathing! See core hold tutorial in core function playlist
-Avoid hips sagging towards the ground or popping up to the sky
-Hands under shoulders
-Very slight anterior pelvic tilt (tucked). Imagine ribs and hips are lightly connected by a string

Full plank

-Slight posterior pelvic tilt (tilting towards your ribs aka tuck) when in kneeling hip flexor position
-Keep hips square
-Keep light length through the stretch not sinking/dumping into it
-Take range of motion to a slight stretch, not discomfort or forced range of motion

Hip ham right

Hip ham left

-Keep hips lifted and picture a line from knees to head with hips, ribs and head in line
-Keep length through the body
-Avoid hips, ribs or waist sinking towards the floor
-Deep core engaged through movement to stabilize
-Move with control
-Repeat reps on both sides

Plank reach right

Plank reach left

Cardio warm up

-Stay as low as you can with good form
-Only go as quickly as you can keep good form
-Hinge at the hips slightly to keep good alignment and hips, ribs and head stacked
-Land lightly
-Core works with breath

Single shuffle hop

-Move with control
-Only as quickly as you can keep good form
-Core works with breath throughout movement. Exhale, connect, move on ‘hard’ parts of exercise (see core breathing)
-Land lightly

Burpee

-Sit back and sink down to start the movement
-Foot should be planted on the floor with weight in the heels and balls of feet
-Adjust foot position slightly as needed
-Press up through the floor to standing, engaging the glutes to drive you up
-Keep hips, ribs and head stacked through the movement to prevent rib flare and overarching the low back
-Only go as quickly as you can keep good form and balance during ‘pop’ onto toes
-Core works with breath through the movement(see core breathing tutorial)

Squat pop

-Feet are wider than hips, adjust slightly to what’s most comfortable for you
-Knees and toes point the same direction
-Hinge back
-Torso moves as one piece like a door on hinge (hips are the hinges)
-Hips, ribs and head stacked throughout movement to keep from over arching low back or ribs flaring
-Use glutes and inner thighs to press to standing
-Only go as quickly as you can keep good form and balance
-Core works with breath through movement to help with balance (see core breathing/core hold tutorial)

Sumo hinge pop

-Hips, ribs and head stacked throughout movement to keep from over arching low back or ribs flaring
-Dip or ‘bob’ down and over to one side popping lightly off the ground to one side then the other
-Land lightly
-Only go as quickly as you can keep good form and control
-Modify by popping up onto toe instead of popping off the ground
-Core works with breath. Exhale & connect. Can maintain light dee core connection throughout as well

Bob hop

Interval cardio

-Hips, ribs and head are stacked with a light length through the body
-Core stays connected through the movement, still breathing! See core hold tutorial in core function playlist
-Avoid hips sagging towards the ground or popping up to the sky
-Elbows under shoulders
-Lower knees slowly and with control and use lower abs to pull them back up/ help control the lowering
-Modify depth of knee lower as needed for keeping good alignment, don’t want to feel this in your lower back (modify depth is you do)
-Very slight anterior pelvic tilt (tucked). Imagine ribs and hips are lightly connected by a string

Forearm plank + knee taps

-Engage deep core before lifting shoulders off ground
-Move with control and intention
-Core stays connected throughout
-See core hold tutorial in core function section

Scissor bikes

-Core engages starting right before lifting off floor
-Lift up should be driven by deep core engagement
-Keep light length through torso and hips and head stacked in line
-Move slowly with control
-Core stay connected to stabilize and prevent excessive wiggle in movement
-For more detail see quadruped plank lift tutorial in core work tutorials section

Quadruped walk

Core

-Foot is flexed
-Bend at the hips towards leg to feel a light stretch
-Can do laying on the floor (pillows to prop up if past the first trimester) with foot on the wall instead of floor if it doesn't feel good in a chair

Chair figure 4 right

Chair figure 4 left

-Keep light length through torso
-Pull leg towards opposite shoulder to feel a stretch deep in the hip and glute
-repeat other side

Cross pull right

Cross pull left

-Reaching over head to feel stretch along side body
-Keep length through torso
-Gently rotate slightly open towards your back, this is a very small range of motion
-The goal is a gentle stretch, not discomfort

Rotating side stretch right

Rotating side stretch left

-Bend is at the hip, not by rounding the back
-Keep light length through the stretch not sinking/dumping into it
-Take range of motion to a slight stretch, not discomfort or forced range of motion

Seated wide leg fold

-Keep majority of motion in the thoracic spine, not dumping into low back
-Exhale to arch (cat), inhale to cow
-Slow, controlled and intentional
-Don’t push range of motion to discomfort

Cat cow

Cardio cool down

Week 2 day 3 cardio + core

Wow. What an amazing workout. Took my 56 min to get through it. 🥵 I love all of your workouts and look forward to them every day. Had to stop and change a diaper and make some milk 😆

I've tried doing other workouts but always come back to you... they're just too good. 

PLEASE do a lean and strong 3.0 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Kayla

Lillian

Week 1 Day 1 Lower Body

Jen Van Dyck

Juliet

Was the last set supposed to be 10 reps and 15 reps instead of seconds?

Week 1 day 2 upper body

Girl… my first time doing workout without weights and your workouts rock… 
Great energy in your videos! 
Thanks

Week 1 day 3 cardio + core

Fantastic full body workout. Surprised myself being able to do all three rounds of the bell planks.

I KNOW my arms are going to be jello tomorrow. I thought I had tried all the exercise moves in the book but boy was I wrong! This is only my third workout and I'm SO impressed 👏🏼 job well done!

Week 1 day 4 total body

I really dislike cardio workouts. I got through it but I did substitute the heel taps with bell step outs😮‍💨

These cardio ones are kicking my butt! I am 11 weeks postpartum and did your core rehab and get back to it plan before this one and I am so glad I did. It definitely gave me a good place to start to get into these more intense ones! Thanks!

Susanne

Week 1 day 5 cardio + core

🔥 😅 is all I have to say. I almost missed the 4th round because I’m used to 3 lol

Claudia

Week 1 day 6 total body

Whew Nikki. What did I just experience?! 🥵 best lower body day ever. That band burnout was insane on my outer glutes.

Totally what I needed to start the week out right 💪🏼! That third combo circuit is a killer — smashed it. Thank you for keeping it real with the kids in some videos/audio. Real mom life, love it 🥰.

Lauren

I only did the first 3 circuits and the cool down. Counting reps is not my thing I prefer timed sets.

Week 2 day 3 cardio + core

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