I had a friendly disagreement with another medical massage therapist recently. He’s a cross fitter and I’m not, which may or may not factor into it. We were talking about hip hinging in relation to RDL’s and he said that hip hinging is for hamstring work. I said hip hinging is just the flexion of your hip joint and an RDL can have more glute vs. more hamstring involvement based on your knee flexion (straight legs =more hamstring). What’s the right answer?
I had a friendly disagreement with another medical massage therapist recently. He’s a cross fitter and I’m not, which may or may not factor into it. We were talking about hip hinging in relation to RDL’s and he said that hip hinging is for hamstring work. I said hip hinging is just the flexion of your hip joint and an RDL can have more glute vs. more hamstring involvement based on your knee flexion (straight legs =more hamstring). What’s the right answer?
rdl is for the posterior chain, so both
I think of it as hammies work eccentrically on the way down, glutes bring you back up to standing
ideally the weight for an RDL is super heavy to where its less of a muscle doing the work and more of a "pulling" strength exercise
Excellent, thanks.