I’m going to start incorporating RDLs into my workouts. Are RDL poundages usually more than conventional deadlift poundages because of the shorter range of motion? Thanks for any replies.
Usually less than regular deads because of the changed leverages, and a bit more than goodmornings (unless your grip is a weakpoint).
-Dan
no! You need to get the bar up to the starting position in the first place. The weight should probably be around your good morning weight since it is very similar.
No. At least not for me. A real heavy RDL triple for me is 335. I doubt I could keep correct form with 385 for a single. However, I did a pretty leisurely 515 sumo dead last month and sumo is my “weak” stance. In my opinion, despite the obvious differnce in where the bar is in each lift, an RDL is closer to a good morning in terms of form and the amount of weight I can handle. Your mileage may vary.
Usually they would be less. I can deadlift about 550 right now and would use aboput 275-315 on romanians when I do them. you really want to concentrate on staying tight and feeling these.
From my experience RDL poundages are less-due to the fact you do not have as many prime movers getting the bar going-my best rdls were in the 550 range for 5 reps and I have officially pulled 750. I have heard Ano Turinanen -of the 892 deadlift worl record-has RDL’d 727. Just my .02 cents.
Mine are less. I’m just starting back to these too after Thibs recomended them to rectify some weakness about midway up the spine. I’m not doing one rep maxs yet but for sets of three I’m good with about 235, with the dead approaching 400. I guess different people are going to have different ratios.
Just wanted to add… I doupt there is anyone who can keep proper form on a RDL while hitting a max single!
This is a supplemental lift not a Max effort, treat it as such
Thank you for all of the replies. I appreciate it. I am looking forward to dong this exercise.
I consider RDLs to be simular to stiff-leg deadlifts. I love doing these lifts. For me, my weight on these is just about the same as it is for normal deadlifts. After a few months of lifting, I was at 225lbs for 8x4s.(actually, my grip was the limiting factor)
I currently don’t lift hard now because it kills my biking, but i do enjoy these deadlifts. Having a strong lower back is very helpful for many things.
a few months ago there was link to ronnie coleman’s site where it had video clips of him doing RDLs with 800+lbs, for reps.