Open Gym Strength and Conditioning – Functional bodybuilding

Warm-up

Upper Body Anterior (Chest & Bicep) Warm-up (No Measure)

Crossover Symmetry Warmup

-into-

3 rounds

10 Perfect Pushups (controlled form)

15 band pull-a-parts

5 PVC Around the Worlds (each way)

10 wall angels

5 scorpions (each side)

Bench Press (5×10)

5 set: 10 reps

Focus: Control should be shown with each rep on the way down and on the way up. Bar should be lowered to just below the sternum. Keep elbows at a 45 degree angle to the body and avoid flaring out. Shoulders should be loaded back against the bench throughout reps.

Double DB bench press (4×10)

4 sets: 10 reps

Focus: Select a weight that you can control when sitting back to start and sitting up to finishing set. Do not drop the dumbbells. To avoid injury, bring the knees up to meet the dumbbells and sit up with them. If you have to drop them to deload, you’ve gone too heavy.

Barbell incline press (4×10)

4 sets: 10 reps

Focus: Control should be shown with each rep on the way down and on the way up. Incline of bench should be around a 45-60 degree incline. Bar should be lowered to just below the sternum. Keep elbows at a 45 degree angle to the body and avoid flaring out. Shoulders should be loaded back against the bench throughout reps.

hex press (4×10)

4 sets: 10 reps

Focus: Sitting back on a flat bench with a dumbbell in each hand, assume a neutral grip position and press the dumbbells to the ceiling and together. Perform a DB bench while maintain a neutral grip and dumbbells pushed together throughout the pressing motion.

Standing Alternating DB Curl + Single DB Double Head Curl (4×14)

4 sets: 7 alt. reps (each side) + 7 double head reps

Focus: grasp a moderate weight dumbbell in each hand. Keep dumbbells slightly in front of the body at the bottom position to keep tension on the biceps throughout set. When curling, turn the arm thinking about getting the pinky finger close to the shoulder to maximize contraction with each rep. When finished with alternating reps, immediately grasp ONE dumbbell of a slightly heavier weight by each head and perform the remaining curls with both arms working at the same time.

4 set: barbell drag curls (4×10)

Barbell Drag Curls

Focus: Performed with a straight bar. Use light weight and “drag” the bar up the body by pulling the elbows up and back.

*Do not sacrifice strong shoulder position to try and get the bar higher on drags
4 sets: 10 reps

Focus: Drag curls are performed with a straight bar. Use light weight and “drag” the bar up the body by pulling the elbows up and back. *Do not sacrifice strong shoulder position to try and get the bar higher on drags

Cooldown/mobiity

1 min pec stretch against door/rig

1 min lacrosse ball pec smash (each side)

1 min overhead elbow grab tricep stretch (each side)

1 min bicep wall stretch (each side)

Bicep wall stretch consists of facing a wall and placing a palm on the wall with fingers towards the floor. Slowly turn the torso away from the hand to facilitate a stretch in the bicep and forearm. Higher placement on the wall will result in a bigger stretch.