Uploaded by Andy Griffiths Online Personal Trainer on 2018-01-12.
How to Perform Dumbbell RDL:
Shoulder blades pinned back
Slight bend in the knees
Push your hips back/to the sky (drive you bum back) whilst maintaining a neutral spine (hinge at the hips)
Keep the dumbbells close to your body
Chase the stretch in the back of the legs (hamstrings)
Drive up by squeezing your glutes into the dumbbells (don't hyperextend the lower back at the top)
Finish the Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift in the upright position with your core braced and your glutes firmly tensed
MAIN MUSCLE - HAMSTRINGS
Check out my full RDL tutorial below for more coaching points
The RDL (Romanian Deadlift) is a compound hinge movement focusing on the hamstrings (back of legs), specifically the eccentric (way down) part of the exercise where we are trying to achieve maximum stretch through the hamstrings. The starting position is holding the bar at hip level with a pronated grip.