 Hello team, we're gonna talk about the Romanian deadlift and the good morning exercise right now And we're gonna kind of compare and contrast those things here today. So the the they're basically the same motion the RDL I'm holding a weight in my hands, and it stays down like a normal deadlift whereas the good morning kind of looks like a really Disleveraged squat, let's let's put it that way so the bar is on your back like this And I bend over I make the same position But the the leverage obviously is not nearly as favorable for me So with the deadlift I can kind of keep the bar scooped in a little bit more and that takes some pressure off of my hips and back You're gonna be able to do a lot more weight with an RDL than with a Good morning, which is on your shoulders and really far away from those hip joints and from those You know every back joint that you have so What do we notice so you know Anecdotally for me, I'm I'm really flexible. I have a lot of hamstring flexibility So getting in those positions is never that difficult. It's finding the stability in those positions That's always difficult and with the RDL for whatever reason, maybe it's just the Shortening of the lat I feel like I get a lot better hip drive there. It's easier for me to practice this Movement with my arms down because there's just a little bit less going on It's a little more forgiving if I make any you know subtle mistakes. It's easier to correct them Big thing is for for both of them I can kind of get that hamstring stretch on the way down, but then when I come back up it's really easy to lose it on the on the good morning because It's you have this weight pushing you down and it encourages you to lean back with it and so this goes back to our discussion on Position versus motion and bringing the hips and all sorts of other deadlifting cues that we might be using We want to think about pushing our feet in the ground not lifting the bar up Okay, and that goes doubly for the good morning It's just a lot harder to control here and so I would try good mornings I would keep the weight really really low for now if you're not feeling it in your legs Exclusively then I Don't know stop doing it Try to fix it try to get a coach to fix it But that one like there's there's a big risk for a pretty narrow reward So I'm not usually giving that variation to a lot of people It's it's it would be cool to try and you know I might have a handful of people who could safely do it But for the most part, especially if you're just you know looking to be fitter. It it's I'm not gonna say it doesn't fit into your program, but it is a big learning curve It's like the Olympic lifts, right? Those would be really cool if everyone was doing them But who has the patience to learn how to do them correctly? so that's just a little comparison on the Romanian deadlift when you're holding the weight and the Barbell good morning when the weight is on your shoulders It's the same motion, but the leverage is a lot different and it therefore encourages different feelings different Sensations and the good morning tends to be more difficult to do safely