Hip Hinge / RDL

Hip-dominant pattern. Dissociate hip flexion from lumbar flexion.

Run in Capture Lab

Setup

Soft knee (~15–20°), maintained
Bar or dowel along mid-foot; shoulder over the bar at the bottom
Sagittal view, full spine visible

Scoring rubric

Knee angle nearly isometric
Hip flexion is the primary motion
Trunk segment rotates as a unit — no lumbar rounding late in the range

Literature

McGill — spine-sparing hip hinge. Palmitier et al. — kinetic chain in the deadlift.

Tracked joints: hip, knee, trunk. The kinematic engine is a teaching model scaled to the active subject. Export CSV from the report for your own processing.