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Take note of these additional cues from Samuel to shore up your barbell RDL form: Lower Slowly. Eb says: The focus of the Romanian deadlift is supposed to be on the eccentric contraction. If you ...
Single-Leg Deadlift. How to do it: Stand tall with both feet on the ground, arms at sides.Shift weight to right leg, hinge forward from the hips, allow right knee to bend slightly, and lower torso ...
There’s the standard form of the barbell deadlift—but also consider another variation that uses a barbell, the Romanian deadlift (otherwise known as the RDL). The exercise is a posterior chain ...
Romanian deadlift (RDL) – Unlike conventional deadlifts where the barbell starts on the floor, in RDLs, the barbell is lifted from a standing position, and the movement focuses on hinging at the hips while maintaining a slight bend in the knees. The emphasis is on keeping the back flat and engaging the hamstrings and glutes to lift the weight ...
Nicolae "Nicu" Vlad (born 1 November 1963) is a retired heavyweight weightlifter from Romania. He competed for Romania at the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. He won the world title in 1984, 1986 and 1990 and European title in 1985 and 1986 and set world records in the snatch in 1986 and 1993. [2]
A negative repetition (negative rep) is the repetition of a technique in weight lifting in which the lifter performs the eccentric phase of a lift. [1] Instead of pressing the weight up slowly, in proper form, a spotter generally aids in the concentric, or lifting, portion of the repetition while the lifter slowly performs the eccentric phase for 3–6 seconds.
The deadlift is a foundational compound exercise that engages the entire body, including the core, lower back, and glutes. By lifting a heavy load from the ground, deadlifts promote full-body ...
In most other lifts there is an eccentric (lowering the weight) phase followed by the concentric (lifting the weight) phase; the deadlift is just a concentric movement." As the lowering of the weight back to the floor is a necessary part of the deadlift you do not only have a concentric movement.