Am I doing Romanian deadlifts right?

A Romanian deadlift is a hinge: your hips push back, your knees stay softly bent and mostly still, your back stays flat, and the bar slides down close to your thighs until you feel a strong hamstring stretch. The common faults are bending the knees until it turns into a squat, rounding the back to reach lower, and letting the bar drift away from your legs.

Upload one set of RDLs and see whether you are hinging or squatting, then the one fix for your next set.

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Common Romanian deadlift faults it can point out

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    Hinge, not squatWhether your hips travel back while your knees stay softly bent.
  2. 2
    Back positionWhether your back stays flat at the bottom or rounds to reach lower.
  3. 3
    Bar closeWhether the bar stays against your thighs on the way down and up.

The check picks what matters in your set, which may be none of these. Each thing it reports comes back as looks right, adjust, or can't judge. Never a score, and never a number nothing measured. You get the one thing to change on your next set.

How to film it

  1. 1
    Any angle works. From the side shows the hinge most clearly.
  2. 2
    Whole body and the bar in frame, including your feet.
  3. 3
    Film the whole set, from standing to the last rep.
Upload one set

Form checks help you move more safely. They are not a medical assessment. If something hurts, see a doctor.