Brock Bad RDLs

Start of Week 2. Bright and early with a 35-minute elliptical session, then a 1 p.m. leg workout at Gold’s:

  • Hack squat
  • Leg curl
  • Leg extension

Great lifts overall. Drop-set everything at the end to absolute failure. Didn’t have enough time for calf raises — I’ll punish them later this week.

I also took a quick video of my RDL form and… woof. Total shit. Going to chat with some trainer friends at the Y and see if I can get that cleaned up. Perhaps switch to a dumbbell variation in the meantime.

I also cleaned up my nutrition plan using the Macrofactor app to try and push toward 180 lbs by March. Feels like I’ve got some decent meals figured out that should help me consistently hit my protein target. My belle-mère got me an air fryer for Christmas, so I’ll do a bit of research on how to make chicken breasts taste better than whatever currently comes out of my crock pot.

Finally, I knocked out a bit of my TODO list and spun up a repo for tracking my lifts. It’s not 100% yet, but it’s a start. You can find it here. It’s not ready for general use, but if you have any programming experience and want to track your lifts in a dumb JSON format, feel free to steal it.

Notes

  • Weight still 172.6 lbs (hoping that changes this week)

TODO

  • Research posing and judging
  • Graph lift data
  • Buy tiny shorts