Then with control, return them to their starting position. Repeat for the prescribed number of repetitions, then bring your arms out at a 45-degree angle from your body (making a Y with your body. Top sets (when performed submaximally or shy of failure) can also be used as an objective measure of fatigue or preparation at various points in a training cycle, and can act as a barometer of your progress. Rope Pushdowns or Skullcrushers), then something overhead (e.g. Begin performing curls with your banded arm for the prescribed reps, using a supinated (palm facing up) grip. Can also be programmed as a hold, in which case you would maintain your top position for the prescribed amount of time. Repeat for the prescribed time or repetitions. Increase tension by standing on more of the band, and decrease tension by allowing for more slack on the band between your feet and hands. We aret simply throwing together exercises, reps, and sets before calling it a day. Set up in a stance with feet shoulder-width apart, standing on a long resistance band (light or moderate). Banded Isometric Curl;Banded Hammer Curl; Banded Reverse Grip Curl; Banded Bicep 1.5-Rep Curl; Banded Bicep Curl 21s; DB Curl; Barbell Curl; Single Arm Cable Curl; Concentration Curls; EZ Bar Curls; Hammer Curls. Squeeze the shoulder blades together and separate the band in a fly-motion. Lower the weight with control again behind your head to return the weight to the start position. Set up with a wide stance (feet externally rotated) and hands inside of your legs, standing on a long resistance band. These can also be prescribed isometrically as a Banded Front Raise Hold. Press yourself to the end of the range of motion, pause for one second and return to the start position. That is one repetition repeat for the prescribed reps. You can also perform this with your feet on a foam roller. If the prescribed time is too short or long for your current strength, consider scaling: Scale easier by performing your plank to your knees and/or raising to your hands (vs. forearms). Like Ascending sets, AMRAPs are a form of autoregulation (something that allows us to adjust training based on individual performance variations day-to-day and week-to-week). In a half kneeling position (close knee on the floor), use a cable machine or a band and bring the handle to the torso. Pancake Tacos w/ Grilled Peaches and Bacon By JamaRR Royster (@pancakegawd) Estimated Serving Size & Nutrition, Copyright 2018 STRONG STRONG FRIENDS. Lift your hips off the ground, and maintain a neutral spine by tucking the ribs and squeezing the glutes and abdominals. If your primary (main) squat is already High-Bar and the program prescribes High-Bar Squats at another time in the week, you may perform them again, but we would recommend considering an alternative variation. Press into the block. Begin performing curls with your banded arm for the prescribed reps. With a slight bend in the knees, push your hips back and tip your torso forward (maintaining a strong trunk and straight back), reaching your arms down until you grab the kettlebell. Regular Plank (both arms); Hanging Leg Raises; Bear Crawls; Side Plank; L-Sit. Ideally, your elevated leg should have no more than a 90-degree angle at the knee at the deepest position. Banded Tricep Pushdowns or Skullcrushers), then something overhead (e.g. Stand beside a box with one foot on the floor and one foot on the box. Return to the starting position. single leg hamstring curl). Focus on keeping your rips down and your chin tucked during your repetitions. Approach the bar as you would for your normal deadlift (either conventional or sumo, whichever is your preferred stance), and perform a deadlift. Clamshells, Clamshells with Hip Extension, Fire Hydrants, Banded Lateral Walk, Monster Walk. Use a stair, low box, or other stable surface (e.g. Unrack the bar across your shoulders, placing it as close to your throat (across your clavicle) as possible while still allowing yourself room to breathe. We recommend a Glute Ham Raise as another great substitute, or any other hamstring curl with a slow eccentric (negative), such as slider hamstring curls. Can be further scaled easier by raising from your forearm up to your hand (with a straight arm and locked elbow). It can take months and/or years of dedicated training for many lifters to get their first pull-up. Perform squats to depth while keeping an upright torso. Press kettlebell or dumbbell overhead in one hand. Put your weight on the front foot and hinge at the hip and push your hips back. This impacts your relative strength and capacity on any given day. Focus on keeping your ribs tucked down, as if you were actively performing a crunch and pressing your lower back into the floor. Retract your shoulder blades and raise your thumbs towards the ceiling. Keep your body in a straight line, making sure not to raise or sink the hips. Place your top leg on top of the bench. You should feel a mild stretch in your hamstrings with each kick. 3-Position Cable Curl; 3-Position Banded Curl; Any Bicep Burnout of 15+ reps to failure; Barbell Curl, Concentration Curl, Cable Curls (V-Bar or EZ Bar attachment), Preacher Curls, Alternating DB Curls, Hammer Curl. Hold the dumbbell with one arm bent at 90 degrees. Set up with your feet hip width apart and toes pointed forward. Grab the band with both hands and pull back towards the lower abdomen. Think about pushing the feet through the floor while squeezing your glutes and pushing your hips forward, hingeing at the hips. Hold the weight overhead or to your chest. Hold a rope attachment from a low pulley. Hang from the bar, and pull yourself up by pulling elbows down to the floor. Lateral Box Step Ups; Bulgarian Split Squat; Split Squat; Front Foot Elevated Split Squat; Lunge; Reverse Lunge; B-Stance Hip Thrust; Single Leg Leg Press. Banded Lat Pullover; DB Pullover; Lat Pull Down variations (wide grip, single arm, etc); Pull-Ups, Chin-Ups, Rows. Regular Plank; Hanging Leg Raises; Bear Crawls; Side Plank; L-Sit. While holding them at this height, tuck your ribs down and squeeze your abs while reaching your hips back as far as you can. In pushup position with forearms on the ground, maintain neutral spine by tucking the ribs and squeezing the glutes and abdominals. Then, raise your body back up to the start position by actively contracting your hamstrings. These sets will allow us to hit new rep max PRs when we feel good and move well, yet stick with the minimum prescribed reps even on off days, to make sure were making progress and moving forward no matter what. Option to scale down by using the modified demo linked above (moderate) by keeping your hands down by your side rather than overhead. Begin your rep by contracting your biceps, curling to a 90-degree bend at the elbow, making sure you have tension and resistance from the band. Keep bicep and elbow close to torso and control the weight through the entire movement. Bench Press the bar by bringing it down towards your chest (arms roughly 45-degrees from your torso), then returning to lockout. While maintaining this position, lift one hand off the ground and slowly tap your opposite shoulder. Use a bench block or board to limit the range of motion of the bench press. She was born on August 13, 1989 and her birthplace is United States. Repeat for the prescribed repetitions. Set up on the floor with a light dumbbell, shaker cup, or other small implement by one of your hands. Sitting on your butt with your knees bent and arms to your side, engage your abdominal muscles and hold your torso so that you are leaning back 45-degrees off the floor while lifting your feet off the ground as well (your only point of contact with the ground should be your butt). Stand and hold an EZ Curl barbell with an underhand (supinated) grip, palms facing up/away from your body. Inverted Row (Regular Grip); Supinated Grip Inverted Rows (At-Home version);DB Row; Cable Row; Chest Supported Row; Machine Row; Pull Up; Chin Up; Lat Pull Down. Return the the starting position and repeat. Back Extensions; Glute Ham Raise; Reverse Hyperextensions. The closer you are to being vertical, the harder the push up will be. Scale accordingly. Start in a standing position with your feet roughly hip-width apart in front of a low box. Think about pushing the feet through the floor while keeping the barbell as close to your body as possible. This can either be high-bar, low-bar, or somewhere in between (hybrid). Repeat for the prescribed repetitions, lowering with control and touching the ground softly, then repeat on the other side. Engage your abs while pressing your low back into the floor, and hover your feet and hands ~6 inches over the floor. Plank Pull Across is a more dynamic plank variation, and can be performed with a DB or household item (like the shaker cup in the demo). Split squat variations; Lunge variations; Step Ups; Any other unilateral lower body movement (single leg press, single leg glute bridge, etc.). Tighten the upper back, brace the core, then pull the bar from the ground up to the hips. Set up a band in a high anchor or overhead position. Starting in a kneeling position, bring one leg up into a half-kneeling position, then bring up your second leg until you reach a squat. Squeeze your butt and drive your feet through the floor, extending until your hips are in line with your torso. Side Plank: Get into a side plank position and raise + hold for 7-10 seconds, then lower back to the ground with control. Lift your hips off the ground, and maintain a neutral spine by tucking the ribs and squeezing the glutes and abdominals. Hollow Body Hold; Hollow Body Rocks; Plank; Birddogs; V-situps; Deadbugs; On cable pulldown machine, choose a long handle, and grab with a grip that is noticeably wider than your shoulder width. Take a half kneeling position (with your foot closest to the anchor flat on the floor, and your far side knee down). Take small steps laterally on one side and complete all reps. Then switch sides. Ensure you are maintaining retraction the entire time. single leg extension). Set up in a conventional deadlift position. Perform your lunges by taking a step forward with one leg, dropping into a 90-90 lunge position while maintaining your upright torso. resistance profile is hardest in the lengthened position for Position 1, and hardest in the shortened position in Position 2). Walking/Alternating/Reverse Lunge variations; Box step-ups; Flat or Front Foot Elevated Split Squat variations. Continue pulling until your chin passes the bar. Slowly and with control, lower your hands in a circular motion as far as comfortably possible. If you can perform fewer than 5 feet elevated push-ups, we recommend starting on the scaled version below! While keeping your trunk neutral, take one hand and resist the band by tapping 6-12 outside of shoulder width apart. Bench Press the dumbbells from chest level to lockout. While facing forward the entire time, start by crossing one foot over the other while stepping explosively in that direction. Keep thumbs up towards the ceiling. Can also be performed as a single arm plank (alternate sides each set). Round up or down as needed based on the prescribed percentage work, but aim to hit at least the total cumulative rep goal for the session. Whatever your target time, you should be evenly distributing your tempo with your range of motion, so that when you are 75% of the way done your tempo, you are 75% of the way down the rep.Can be weighted with DBs in both hands, or holding a DB or KB in front of you (arms extended, weight at belly-button height) to act as a counter balance. Neutral grip lat pull-down, assisted chin-ups, negative chin-ups, weighted chin-ups. To scale to an slightly less easy (intermediate) variation, perform Hanging Knee Tucks from a pull-up bar. For another challenging variation, perform these as Elevated Single Leg Glute Bridge by placing your rooted foot on an stable elevated surface (like a box, bench, or stair) before performing your reps. Your goal throughout the entire range of motion is to keep your hips and shoulders facing square in front of you and resist the rotation. Lower the bar to your chest with control (aim to tuck your elbows a little bit closer to your torso than a normal bench press) and press back up to lock out. Set up in a push-up position. Maintain that position for prescribed amount of time. Place the bar on your traps. Banded lateral walk, Monster walk, Clamshells, Fire Hydrants. Lie on floor with feet flat on the ground. Face a cable setup with a rope handle attached to a low pulley. Lower back down and repeat. Supinated Grip Inverted Rows (At-Home version); DB Row; Seated Banded Row; Pull Up; Chin Up; Banded Lat Pullover; Half Kneeling or Quadruped Banded Lat Pulldown, Supinated Grip Inverted Rows (At-Home Version). Hold a wall or squat rack for balance if needed. Perform the prescribed number of reps, then rest. May also be prescribed with different rep ranges (e.g. Assisted Negative Chin-Ups (using a band or assisted pull-up machine), Negative Pull-Ups. For full squat tutorial, see our Extended Video Library or written guides on this movement. Alternate for the prescribed repetitions. To do a goblet squat, get into your normal squat position with your feet slightly wider than hip-width apart, and your core engaged. Tricep Push Down, Bench Dips, Skullcrushers. Pause at the top (for time, if prescribed), and continue squeezing your quads and resisting the bands. You should be far enough away from the anchor that there is some tension in the band even at rest with arms overhead. Descend (aiming to keep the bar in as straight and vertical of a bar path as possible) until you reach depth, which is the point at which your hip crease has descended below the horizontal plane made by the top of your knee. Starting with a bench perpendicular to your body, grip the surface or edge of the bench with your hands. We prescribe all percentages relative to a Training Max. Can be performed alternating each arm (as demonstrated above) or simultaneously, if preferred/not specified. Pushup, DB Incline Bench; DB Flye; Cable Flyes. Focus on keeping your ribs tucked down and continue pressing the low back into the floor. Hold and squeeze at the top, then lower to the start position. On a Glute-Ham-Developer or hyperextension machine, lock in the feet with the hip pad under the pelvis/lower trunk. Start in a kneeling position with enough room to extend forward. Shins should be close to perpendicular to the floor at the start of the pull. Place one foot flat on the floor (bending that leg at the knee and hip). Set up an adjustable bench at a high incline (~60-80 degrees) facing away from a dual cable machine. This is a three-exercise giant set, intended to be performed continuously with no rest in between exercises. Do your best to maintain level shoulders and hips here there should be minimal swaying or rotational movement even as you lift one hand off the ground. The band will add pressure to your forearms to internally rotate, and your goal is to resist that pressure (through external rotation) throughout the range of motion. Grab a PVC pipe, broom, or band in front of your body with arms locked out. Meg Gallagher, aka @megsquats on Instagram, competes in powerlifting and has probably popped up on your feed. Starting in a plank position with one hand on the floor, and one hand elevated, begin your push-ups. Holding your DBs in an overhand position, drive your arms back at a roughly 45ish degree angle away from your torso. Press back up by pushing your feet into the floor and your shoulders back into the bar. Option to use a rope, single arm handle, EZ-bar/v-bar, or straight bar attachment unless specified. Calf Extensions in Leg Press; Calf Raises in Hack Squat; Seated Calf Raise Machine, Whats with the exercise order? Can be performed single arm or simultaneously, if preferred/not specified. While holding this engaged trunk/core position, extend your legs out in front of you, then returning your knees to your chest. Can also be performed from a slight (1-3) deficit. Begin by descending into a short dip, then explosively drive up and jump forward as far as you can. It motivates me indirectly., The biggest thing Ive gained from being in Stronger by the Day is the mindset that less is more. Laying on your stomach, extend your arms overhead and extend legs and feet. Try to keep your elbows tucked tight to your torso as you pull the handle down, better engaging your lats. Start on the floor in a quadruped position (hands and knees down), with your arms shoulder-width apart. If an exercise is prescribed as 36 @ 4 reps left in the tank, that means we want to perform 3 sets of 6 repetitions using a weight that we could do for ~10 total reps if pushing to true failure (6 completed reps + 4 RIR). Hold the position for the specified amount of time. Hold this top position for the prescribed amount of time, scaling weights lighter if needed good options here can be holding smaller DBs than usual, holding light change plates (2.5lbs / 1kg or less), or holding a pair of filled water bottles. Can also be performed with a band. DB Row, Inverted Row, Barbell Row, any other horizontal pulling variations or machines. Pronated Grip Inverted Rows (At-Home version); DB Row; Cable Row; Chest Supported Row; Machine Row; Pull Up; Chin Up; Lat Pull Down. Complete for the prescribed reps, then repeat on the other side before taking any rest. Standing or Machine Shrug variations; Heavy Farmer Walks or Yoke Carries. With a barbell fixed in a low position in a squat rack, hang underneath the bar with your feet on the floor and your hands spaced bench press-width apart. Now that you are in position, transition from forearm to hand on one side, followed by the other youre now in High Plank. Start with your arms down by your side, then raise them out at a 45-degree angle from your body (making a Y with your body. These can also be performed with a Glute Emphasis. Bring one foot at a time in, bending the knee and hip. ); Leg Press variations (especially glute focused, such as wide stance or feet further in front of you); Step Up, Lunge, or Split Squat variations. 38 would be 38/arm). Tuck the ribs and the hips, ensuring you do not hyperextend the spine. Hold the band with one hand, pointing your elbow directly behind you so that your humerus (upper arm) is parallel to the floor and positioned behind your torso). 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