Weekly Check-in and different content

This week got a little chaotic, I closed a drawer on my right hand very badly and haven’t been able to pickup anything. As a result, I only went to the gym twice this week. Today my hands feeling better but Im being cautious and letting my hand recover fully. Hopefully, I should be all good to resume for Tuesday’s workout. The eating is going great, and I have been able to keep up with all of my meals. We are up to 145 this week, so the progress is still going strong.

Form Focus

I have decided to try a new idea that I got from my classmate Adams’ blog. He is also documenting his workouts and he does posts on what he calls form focus where he breaks down how to perform an exercise correctly, and clears up any common mistakes that people make. I have decided I am also going to do these in future blog posts. I will try to break down an exercise for each of the major muscles. This will include anything chest, back, bicep, tricep, quad, and hamstring exercises.

For this week’s form focus, we are going to be starting with a hamstring exercise, the Romanian Deadlift, or RDL. I started with this exercise because it took me a very long time to figure out how to do it properly. When I first tried I would often end up feeling it a lot more in my lower back than my hamstring. I would end up getting hurt and being out of the gym for a couple of days and eventually, I stopped doing it entirely. However, in the past year, I decided to really spend some time figuring out how to perform it correctly. Ever since my hamstring growth has been great. Like when trying any new exercise the key is to start with little or no weight and get the basic form cues down. Here is a video I found that really helped me.