Leah wrote:Many people will want to stand on mats or plates to raise you, the lifter, and not the plates. Standing on something about 2 inches or so is usually good.
Wha? Since when is an SLDL also from a deficit? Did I miss something?
I also wondered about that. Never seen/heard it used that way.
Maybe an editing error, slipped in from an RDL description. I've noticed in Alan Thrall vids that he does his RDLs from a deficit.
My RDLs lately have been gaining range-of-motion as I get better at hamstring stretches. My last set of 5 Monday hit the floor on most reps. I'll probably start using a platform.
cwd wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 2:10 pm
Maybe an editing error, slipped in from an RDL description. I've noticed in Alan Thrall vids that he does his RDLs from a deficit.
My RDLs lately have been gaining range-of-motion as I get better at hamstring stretches. My last set of 5 Monday hit the floor on most reps. I'll probably start using a platform.
Since you brought it .....
I think RDLs are way undersold.
I really like them and think they are important.
You can just widen grip to keep from hitting the floor.
I don't think you want to go too crazy deep though.
You get to a point where you're knees will have to bend a lot to get really deep, and then
I THINK (seems to me) your glutes take over a bit.
mbasic wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 2:43 pm
I think RDLs are way undersold.
I really like them and think they are important.
You can just widen grip to keep from hitting the floor.
I don't think you want to go too crazy deep though.
You get to a point where you're knees will have to bend a lot to get really deep, and then
I THINK (seems to me) your glutes take over a bit.
Last time I swapped back to high-bar squats after doing Zerchers for a while, I had horrible hamstring soreness. The quad-dominant squats didn't train my hamstrings much, and deadlifts don't work them eccentrically or over a long ROM like a back squat does.
So this time, I'm doing RDLs with the hope that I can switch to back squats more smoothly. I think of them mostly as a weighted hamstring stretch.
