The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
so besides a deadlift and a squat RDL various stiff-legged deadlift or good morning RDL is the same category of movement that trains your entire back uh specifically your spinal erector musculature which is insanely important for healthy aging I could talk about that at nauseum and um then it trains your glutes and it trains your hamstrings and it trains your Sartorius and parts of your adductors and it actually trains your calvs too holy crap that's one that's one extra SI
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besides a deadlift and a squat RDL various stiff-legged deadlift or good morning RDL is the same category of movement that trains your entire back specifically your spinal erector musculature which is insanely important for healthy aging and then it trains your glutes and it trains your hamstrings and it trains your Sartorius and parts of your adductors and it actually trains your calvs too