25/05/2026
Most people aren’t getting results in the gym because nobody ever showed them the basics properly; and the Romanian Deadlift is a perfect example.
It’s one of the best exercises for building strong hamstrings and posterior chain. But if you’ve ever finished a set and felt it mostly in your lower back or quads, the movement isn’t doing its job.
Two reasons this usually happens:
Rounding through the back pulls load away from your legs and dumps it straight onto your spine. Feels like hard work, delivers the wrong results.
Bending the knees too much turns a hinge into a squat and you’ve lost the tension through the hamstrings entirely. Same exercise, different stimulus.
This is exactly why coaching matters. Small technical cues, applied at the right moment, completely change what an exercise does for your body.
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