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Here’s an exercise to add to your toolbox—RDL with a pull finish.
 
Clean grip will be easier to load heavier, and snatch grip will be easier to extend in the pull well.
 
Lowering the weight is no different than any RDL—bend the knees slightly as you hinge at the hips to move down as low as you can without your back softening.
 
Keep your back rigid as you change directions and hinge back up.
 
Once the bar is above the knees, accelerate into a pull.
 
There are two main possible reasons to use these:
 
First, which is why Adelle is using them here, is as a temporary substitute for pulls while avoiding a degree of knee flexion that’s problematic because of injury, pain or similar in the legs and/or hips.
 
Second is just adding the pull finish to RDLs you’re already doing in your program to get more training and practice of the extension for the snatch and clean—this includes aspects like balance, leg drive, and keeping the bar close.
 
Note this variation means you’re not training the purer hip extension of a conventional RDL, but you do still have that strict hip hinge in the eccentric phase—make sure missing the concentric extension isn’t a problem for you.