Please help with my RDL. I dont want to waste my time with an exercise like this if my form is not right.
I never get any replies. I see people post identical videos and they get 30 replies in an hour.
I used to be around 95lbs growing up, now I love myself and decided to get stronger! I'm starting my bulk buddies! I've been on/off the gym for various reasons but consistent enough to keep up. My journey has been slow during the 5 years I started but I'm happy to be doing it!
Currently I do legs twice a week, upper body twice a week and a day for cardio/abs. I'm not a fan of bar squats or hack squats because of my back and knees so I usually do bulgarian split squats, goblet/sumo squats, and leg press as my go to. Free weights are ideal for my back and arms. Currently starting to bulk and can't wait to cut and see what I bring to the table!
My favorite lift. I’m a bit weaker than I used to be due to cutting for a long time and not doing it quite slow enough but still real proud of being able to hit this weight consistently. This was my 4th set and still felt real comfortable.
Not as impressive as a lot I see on here but it still feels real good!
Feeling so much better. I’ve had a history of lifting ever since high school and used to throw around a lot of weight, but I decided to get my diet in check in my 30’s and walk a lot. Very cool to finally be able to see everything that was under there and now I get to sculpt it like clay.
31M 6’2” down 193.8 in 8 months.
That’s down another 42 pounds since my 6 month update I posted here.
Things have been going great, energy is at an all time high, cardio has been improving, more running, longer bike rides.
Lifts are starting to stay stagnant and not really adding weight or reps at this point. Planning to lose another 15ish and do a short maintenance phase to help recovery and strength. Body scans show muscle mass is holding steady now so that’s a plus.
Able to do more with my kids than I could have ever imagined when I started this journey and I’m forever grateful for that.
Planning on competing in a summer shredding show in August or September of next year.
I feel like my form is very off in this.. I try to keep my knees going outwards but they still shake a lot, and I don’t know if I should stop the last rep earlier if my form goes to whack. Any thoughts?
28 years
7 months progress
123lb to 163lb (56kg to 74kg)
Working out 4-5 times a week
Hello I’m currently pressing 730lbs at 170 body weight, but I feel like that must be wrong. Do I need to press knees closer to my body?
Same shirt in the 1 photo, unfortunately don't have any shirtless photos from before. During that time I've trained FBW 3 times a week mostly one excercise per muscle group per session 2-5 sets to failure. As for diet I cared only for total calories and grams of protein (over 160).
Started incorporating weight lifting with my running and these are the results thus far after a year
From a complete newbie who had never set foot in a gym, starting one day a week. Confidence grew and progressed to three days a week (Legs, Push, Pull + isolations each session) with runs now programmed and aiming for a 10k run. Currently running 5km @ 32min.
Diet started around 1750kcal a day raising to about 1900/2000kcal on higher activity days. By no means been as restrictive as I could have been, I still “lived”.
A “fun” marker of progress, taking the 5 floors worth of stairs to my floor in the office from panting prior to being pretty much okay by the end.
This year has been a foundation year for sure, onto the next 🫡 All photos relaxed for fair comparison.
Areas of improvement for next year are definitely arm, core, chest and rear delt development. While still maintaining compound exercises.
1-11-25 I decided I wanted change. Started walking 10,000 steps everyday and learning how to track calories and stay in a deficit. 10k steps eventually became 20,000 steps everyday for 367 days straight. On active days i would eat around 2500-2800 calories and on less active days about 2300-2500. I didn’t cut carbs out and the only Marcos I tracked was 200g of protein. I just started the gym about 14 months into my journey so 4 months ago. Goal is to lose around another 30 pounds and pack on more muscle!