What is going on guys?

What is going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Eric Roberts

Fitness Podcast. I hope you're having a great day thus far.

We're going to dive into today's Q&A podcast. I've got a couple of things I'm going to cover

a mix of strength training, a mix of motivation and discipline, and a mix of what to do after you achieve your weight loss goal.

So we're got a lot of good topics today.

First and foremost, please just remember if you were an avid listener of the show and you have not left a five-star rating and review

quite just yet it would really be doing me a solid if you could simply leave a

five-star rating and review I spend you know two three four hours a week recording these podcast it may take you five

minutes max to leave a five star rating review so if you could potentially give me five minutes for the two to four hours I spend a week,

I would really appreciate that and it just helps the show reach more people which is what we're

about here is helping more people. So that being said let's go ahead and dive right in. The first

question somebody asked me Eric is there any alternatives to R. D. Ls Romanian

deadlifts are there any alternatives to R. D.Ls? It hurts my back so much. So, okay, are there technically

alternatives to R. D. L. So an R.D.L is a hip hinge movement pattern, right?

So yeah, technically there is a, there is an alternative.

For example, a hip thrust to a degree is like an RDL, because it is a hip hinge kind of movement pattern.

Now, a hip thrust in an RDL are different because one, the RDL challenges your glutes like at the bottom, kind of at that stretch position, which is really good for

muscle building, really good for hypertrophy.

And then the hip thrust challenges your glutes in that shortened position.

So it's a little bit different,

but it's still a hip-pinch movement,

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