Two 5x5 Variations

[enigma4dub]

Excuse my ignorance, but where can I find info on RDL? What is it?

romanian deadlift its a dead lift from the hang. check out excercise video link in the 5x5.

 

[enigma4dub]

anthrax, i see in variation a you are high pulling and deadlifting on the same day. seems redundant and pretty taxing to me.

 

[Madcow2]

RDL as originally executed by Nicu Vlad who is responsible for making this lift what it is and allowing the BBing magazines to make themselves sound oh so much more progressive by changing the name of stiff deads to Romanian Deads without really understanding the exercise.

http://jva.ontariostrongman.ca/RL.htm

 

[enigma4dub]

RDL as originally executed by Nicu Vlad who is responsible for making this lift what it is and allowing the BBing magazines to make themselves sound oh so much more progressive by changing the name of stiff deads to Romanian Deads without really understanding the exercise.

http://jva.ontariostrongman.ca/RL.htm

madcow,
so every rep goes pretty much to the floor why did i think it was from the hang?

 

[Madcow2]

I don't see him touching the floor, he's on a box for more range of motion. You can pull them from the floor though.

 

[djeclipse]

Thanks for the link. A few sites on google showed what they called the RDL with a guy only going half way down with his deadlift.

 

[enigma4dub]

thats why i was confused. in the link that madcow provided he is going through a much greater range of motion than in the video link provided in the 5x5 thread. i thought that was the main point of the romanian, just a shorter range of motion. a way to work on improving that particular range of motion for your traditional deadlift.

hopefully we can get this confusion cleared up

 

[Anthrax Invasion]

High pull and deadlift just worked well on the same day for me. Could always switch high pulls with pullups in variation B. RDL & High Pull would likely be less taxing.

 

[Madcow2]

hopefully we can get this confusion cleared up

There is nothing to clear up. Those shots were taken from the very first time the "Romanian Deadlift" was performed on US soil when Dragomir and Nicu visited the Olympic Training center at Colorado Springs. It was that very exercise that prompted the name "Romanian Deadlift". Nicu apparently used this style of pull quite a bit in his training - I have no idea what he liked to call it but I think the name came from the WLUSA article. There was a writeup in Weightlifting USA magazine afterward that introduced the movement to the public. It made its rounds in OL and strength/conditioning gradually drifting to mainstream (where now everything that involves semi-stiff leg pulling is a Romanian Deadlift).

Now, other people might certainly like to do different things and call it a Romanian deadlift. I can do four finger testicle grabs and call it a zercher squat too. That said, these pics were from the first demo of the lift by the guy who made it famous and his coach - everything came right from here. This was the same visit where Nicu recorded a 42" vertical with no warm up in wood heeled OL shoes.

 

[enigma4dub]

mc,
it was my interpretaion of what actually is an rdl that needed clearing up. i was under the impression that what was in the video index was proper execution, now i know thats not the case. thanks