Street Parking Suns Out Guns Out is posted once a week - on Sunday. These workouts are great for those interested in adding in more work building strength and stamina through more isolation type movements in the upper body.
We typically suggest these workouts be added in as more of a "finisher" after the main workout that day. They can also easily be added to many of the Power, Oly, or Butts and Guts workout - to make a session all its own!
Add this in wherever makes sense for your schedule - and make sure to check out the daily write up for A, B, and C to see where these workouts fit in best each week!
WARM UP
FULL BODY DYNAMIC WARM UP
SHOULDER WARM UP
WORKOUT
4 Rounds Not For Time:
12 Dumbbell Bench Press
12 Banded Tricep Pulldowns or Skull Crushers
12 Diamond Push Ups
12 Seated Dips
Score: Put weight used for Dumbbell Bench Press
COACHES NOTES
Choose a variation on all of these that you can get all 12 reps in one set. Lying face up on the bench, start with the dumbbells outside your chest, elbows about 45 degrees out from your torso. Draw your shoulder blades down into the bench and keep them pulled back even as you press up. Keep your elbows below your wrists and press straight up until your arms are fully extended and perpendicular to the floor. Lower the DBs with control back to your chest.
For the skull crushers keep the shoulders back and down and bend only from the elbow - bringing the bar or dumbbells close to your "skull". Really extend the elbow hard at the top!
For the diamond push ups, keep your body in a rigid plank position. Hands together so that thumbs are touching and index fingers are touching. Point your elbows slightly back. Lower your chest and thighs to the floor. Keep everything tight and press straight back up until your arms are straight.
For the seated dips, plant your hands on a bench, box or chair and scoot your hips off the edge. Try to keep your legs straight or just slightly bent. Keep your torso close to the bench the whole time as you lower down until your elbows go just beyond 90 degrees, then press back up. Perform these slow.
Part 2
10-9-8-7...3-2-1 Reps of:
Plank Up & Overs
Wide Grip Push Ups
1/2 Push Up Hold (1 rep = 1 second)
Goal is to finish this in 12 minutes or less. Stop at 15 minutes if you haven't completed the reps by then.
COACHES NOTES
The way this works is: first you do 10 plank up & overs, then 10 wide grip push ups, then a 10 second 1/2 push up hold. Then you 9 of everything including a 9 second hold. Then 8, then 7 and so on down to 1. We want the holds to be done unbroken so if you need to, go to the knees or elevated!
MOVEMENT DESCRIPTIONS
For the plank up & overs, set up a medicine ball or stack of plates outside one hand. It should be 6-12ish inches high.
Start in a plank position (top of a push up) with arms straight, shoulders over wrists, heels over the balls of your feet.
Keeping your belly tight, quads engaged and back flat, walk one hand then the other to the ball, then over to the other side. Both hands must plant on the higher surface and both hands must plant on both sides of the ball/stack. Each time you plant both hands on one side of the ball/stack is 1 rep.
For the wide grip push ups, place your hands wider than shoulder width in your set up position. Keep your whole body in a tight rigid position as you lower your chest and thighs to the floor then press back up to lock out. These can also be done from the knees or with hands elevated.
Same with the half push up hold. From knees or toes, lower halfway down until your arms make a 90 degree angle. Hold there for the required time then press back up to the top to finish. Don't let your hips sag on this one, squeeze everything!!