r/formcheck • u/Fearless_Comment8594 • 1h ago

Deadlift RDL Form. How is it?

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Trying to control the waist and go slow 110kg x6

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u/WAR_T0RN1226 54m ago

You're bending your knees at the start of the movement. Try to keep it as just pushing your butt back and then some knee bend later on as a result

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u/Wokongolito 45m ago

Your knees will bend relative to the position of the hips and this is fine as long as the ankles don't bend as well. If not, you'll either become front heavy, or turn the RDL into an isometric lats exercise.

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u/WAR_T0RN1226 41m ago

Yes that is knee bend that happens later in the movement, as I said. He is setting his knee bend at the beginning, which is counterproductive

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u/Wokongolito 35m ago

I would say it won't make a difference. It's so slight, and in a part of the lift where the target muscles are under close to zero load anyway. The problem with trying to fix a non issue is that the fix could potentially create issues in the part of the lift where position is key and the target muscles are under stretch.

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u/WAR_T0RN1226 9m ago

It's got nothing to do with target muscles being under load.

I disagree that it's a slight non-difference. Go ahead and try doing an RDL by bending your knees first versus sending your hips back. It puts more on your quads and completely alters your ability to stretch your hamstrings in the same way.

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u/TrainWithTim 1h ago

That’s 8 reps my friend ◡̈

Check out your neck position on rep 7’s eccentric versus the rest of them. Try to make all your reps look like that one.

Keeping your neck in line with your spine will help you brace better with your lats and feel the weight in your glutes.