Name: Playbook - Nikki McGrath - W3/D2 PULL & ABS
Uploaded: 2025-02-13T19:40:58.843Z
Duration: 45 min
Description: W3/D2 PULL & ABS

That back and biceps workout was amazing 🔥

Danielle

Happy Back n Shoulder Day! Let’s get it 🔥🔥


For this workout, we will be focusing on the back, shoulders, and Abs. You got this! 

For best results: Finish w/ 10-12 minutes of an incline walk, bike ride, stair stepper, or run.

- Chin and chest up 
- Focus on pulling through your elbows and not allowing your arms to overpower

Assisted pull-ups

Repeat these two exercises back to back with minimal rest- you got this 🔥❤️

- Grab the bar with your palms facing forward
- Lean back slightly, keeping your chest up 
- Bring the bar down to your upper chest engaging your lats throughout the exercise
- Pause and return to the initial position

Lat pulldown

For this exercise, start with grabbing a pair of dumbbells. Make sure your core is engaged and your back is straight. 

Rotate your arms out to the side at an angle. Curl the weights up to the outside of your biceps. 

Lower with control, and repeat.

Wide Curls

B & B Superset

- Stand with wide stance and your hands on kettlebells
- One arm at a time pull the kettlebell off the ground
- Engage your lat as you pull up 
- Keep core activated

Kettlebell gorilla rows

Repeat these exercises back to back with minimal rest.

For this exercise, grab one dumbbell.

Grab either side of it with your hands and hold it, palms facing upward. 

Lower it down to your hips, then curl it up to your shoulders, making sure you keep your shoulders pulled down and back, and core engaged.

Dumbbell Waiter Curls

- Pull the attachment in towards your body
- Keeping your body neutral and core engaged
- Elbows drive back, squeezing your lats and shoulder blades
- Rotate your wrists as you pull, ending with your thumbs up
- Pause at contraction then slowly return to starting position

Rope seated cable high row

- Set the pulleys to the appropriate height and weight (The pulleys should be shoulder to head height)
- Face the machine and grasp the right pulley with the left hand and the left pulley with the right hand, crossing them in front of you
- Pull the cables back by moving your arms back and outward, keeping the arms nearly straight with a slight flex in the elbows
- Pause at peak contraction of the rear deltoids before reversing the movement back to starting position with control

Rear Delt Cable Fly

X Cable Flys

Do 50 reps each for the following exercises. Do 25 each side for those with unilateral movements. You got this!

Dumbbell Bench V ups

- Pull your knee toward your chest while rotating your upper torso 
- Bring your opposite elbow to your knee 
- Repeat on the opposite side
- Focus on engaging your core

Bicycle crunches

For this exercise, start on your back, legs extended.

From here, engage your abdominals; cue: “on your exhale, imagine as if you are zipping them up, starting at your low abs and going up to your diaphragm.”

Next, bring one knee in toward your chest, and keep the other leg straight, hovering above the floor. Crunch up and over to the bent knee, lower back, and repeat. 1 crunch = 1 rep.

Modification: rest your straight leg down on the mat if needed.

Bicycle Crunch w/ hold

For this exercise, begin on your back, legs extended on the ground. 

From here, engage your abdominals; cue: “on your exhale, imagine as if you are zipping them up, starting at your low abs and going up to your diaphragm.”

Next, simultaneously sit your torso up and lift one leg in to your chest, giving it a little “hug” before lowering back down. That’s one rep. Lower down, and repeat to the other side. 

Modification: Sit up first, then raise your leg in.
Also, bend your legs more to reduce the range of motion.

Single leg Sit ups

- Begin in a high plank position (hands over shoulders) with a dumbbell place on one side of your body
- With the opposite hand pull the dumbbell through to the other side.

Repeat. 1 pass over = 1 rep.

Dumbbell plank pass through

Ab Finisher

W3/D2 PULL & ABS

W1/D1 FIRST- START HERE

Killer! Got a good sweat in. Still walking funny 2 days later. 😂

Christina

Went heavy this round and quads are burning!

Rebekah

W1/D1 QUADS & CALVES

My shoulders and back are feeling it 🔥😅

W1/D2 PULL & ABS

W1/D3: CARDIO & ABS

W1/D4: PUSH & ABS

W1/D5: GLUTES & HAMSTRINGS

W2/D1 QUADS & CALVES

Whooo, great way to start the week. Loved this one🔥❤️

W2/D2 PULL & ABS

W2/D3 CARDIO & ABS

Arms are shakey. Definitely going to feel this tomorrow!

W2/D4 PUSH & ABS

Absolutely annihilated my legs and I’m here for it 🥵🥵🥵

W2/D5 GLUTES & HAMMIES

W3/D1 QUADS & CALVES

W3/D3 CARDIO & ABS

W3/D4 PUSH & ABS

Whewwww that burned more than I thought 🤣

W3/D5 GLUTES & HAMSTRINGS

W4/D1 QUADS & CALVES

That burn was intense! Great upper body day 🔥

W4/D2 PULL & ABS

W4/D3 CARDIO & ABS

This workout was Fantastic 😅🫶 feeling GOOD

W3/D2 PULL & ABS

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