I am getting sick of the hip hinge. I began using this phrase to describe what I wanted my clients to do when learning the RDL. “Now when leaning forward push your ass back and hinge through your hip. Don’t bend through your back.” Lets be clear, the movement pattern we are delvelopimg is proper hip flexion and extension. Plus your hip is not a goddamn hinge joint, it is a ball and socket. Moreover the pimply faced NASM CPT trainers and the fitness magazines don’t even know how to perform a proper hinge. Every time I flip through a fucking fitness magazine I read an article with a hinge. It makes me sick. Perform a two leg hinge followed by a single leg hinge. Fuck you! It is a fucking RDL and single leg RDL not a hinge. THERE IS NO EXERCISE CALLED A HINGE! Technique? Terrible. In the fitness magazines the hot yoga chick is not flexing and extending through the hip, she is anterior tilting, forcing, and extending through the pelvis and spine. In my gym we call this floppy pelvis syndrome, FPS, and it indicates a weak core. A recent celebrity coach said he knows when someone is hinging correctly when they feel it in their hamstring’s. Bull shit. If you feel it in the hamstring’s you are in lordosis and loading your spine. You should feel it in your ass.
If you don’t your fore is weak. Namely the low abs.
So lets move forward and call the movement what it is – hip extension. And lets claim the exercise names back too. If the bar is in front it is a deadlift, pure extension is an RDL, if the bar is behind it is a goodmorning. These names worked fine in the good sol’s days and will work fine now.
Alex
