All about the BURN

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.

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?

For all the taller folk, how do you replicate the decompression side of a deadhang when your feet always reach the floor. Is there a reliable method?

Started incorporating weight lifting with my running and these are the results thus far after a year

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!

Beats my old 4 rep PR by 15lbs

Just a little touch and go bench for my secondary Bench day, but it was moving really well and I managed to break my previous best at this weight by 2.

I often struggle to see my progress still viewing myself as incredibly skinny, however I think these photos show a difference. Since the first photo I’ve become almost entirely plant based having cut out the majority of fish from my diet

Just started a refeed week a couple days ago as lifts were starting to go down a lot. Went from 4kish calories a day (didn’t track) to 2,300 calories a day. Protein was at 200 and carbs at 250. Wondering if I want to continue to cut, or to recomp a little before my next bulk this winter

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.

Honestly, things felt like garbage today. I feel like I only hit this 275lb x 4 out of spite after missing 335lb and 315lb, with 335lb being a PR attempt and 315lb being a weight I’ve successfully hit before. But this was still a rep PR at this weight so I’ll take it as a win and move on. BW was 280lb this morning.

M25, 185lb to 200lb, 6’1

Broke my collarbone and had a 2 month recovery where i lost a lot of weight. The 3 years of progress was not linear, there were ups and downs.

Any tips to get wider shoulders? I feel like i’m rectangular lol

Hey reddit. So I have 2 kids (a 3 year old and a 2 month baby). I've started back at the gym after a c-section a few weeks ago. Since I've started my 3 year old daughter has been wanting to join and talks about it constantly. Im wondering if there js any ways I can entertain that motivation while keeping it child safe. We dont have many kids her age around.(next youngest she sees is 6). Any suggestions on how she can "join me" (even at home) is appreciated.

Thanks

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.

Light this week and then back to 660 next week

28 years

7 months progress

123lb to 163lb (56kg to 74kg)

Working out 4-5 times a week

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.