johnny9 on Nostr: It's kind of an opposite deadlift where you are lowing the weight instead of picking ...

It's kind of an opposite deadlift where you are lowing the weight instead of picking it up. It's a slow and methodical exercise so you don't need a lot of weight at all for it to be effective. The idea is to stick your butt out as far as possible while keeping your chest forward and shoulders back and lower the bar slowly right in front of your shins.

It was explained to me that sitting so much causes a lot of people to have shortened hamstring muscles which creates tension on your lower back and hip flexors. Romanian deadlifts help by stretching your hamstrings under load. Doing that sort of stretching using heavy weight seems to produce much more permanent adaptations where static stretching never seems to help.

An alternative exercise that I have had success with is doing paused squats but that is more complex and taxing so its not as easy to do multiple times a week.