Romanian deadlift , RDL (Abkürzung)

In strength training, squats, leg curls and the Romanian deadlift are combined with other lower body exercises to develop the hamstrings.

For example, the single-leg Romanian deadlift: Stand on your left foot with the left knee slightly bent.

Since he is Romanian, the exercise got dubbed the Romanian deadlift, and that is the name most people know the exercise by.

Nicu Vlad is also the reason for which the flat-backed, semi-stiff legged barbell lift (with a form similar to a deadlift) came to be known as the Romanian deadlift.