High injury risk and destroys your recovery Unless you are a powerlifter RDLs Romanian Deadlifts are better for muscle growth
Conventional pulling is an absolute tax on your nervous system for zero extra growth return
Fact It bankrupts your energy budget for the week while RDLs actually invest it in the muscle
Ripping weight off a dead stop is just asking your lower back to solve a bad math problem
Spot on RDLs reverse the geometry so you only go as deep as your hip mobility actually allows
Floor pulls are mostly just an ego parade unless you have a powerlifting meet scheduled
the hamstrings only care about the deep stretch not how loud the plates clang on the rubber
Heavy standard deadlifts leave my brain feeling like static television for three days straight
Man same Switched to floating RDLs and the systemic fatigue vanished but the hamstring soreness doubled
People just drop the bar after lock-out on conventional throwing away half the muscle-building stimulus
RDLs force you to respect the descent keeping the tension pinned right on the tissue