chromoly wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:21 pmI have used athletic tape for my hook grip exactly once in my life and I hated it. The hook grip has a learning curve...
There are a bunch of articles about hook grip, but this one is the one that really taught me how to do it: https://www.elitefts.com/education/mons ... ationship/
The salient part:The hook will “feel” fine for lighter weight that you can still hold with a double pronated grip, even if you are doing it incorrectly and not gripping it as tightly as you should. However, when the weight is greater than what your double pronated grip can hold, you have to grip that bar as if someone is trying to steal your paycheck in order for the hook to work properly. And with a tight—and I mean TIGHT—hook grip, you are smashing your own thumb to the deadlift bar. If you grab the bar with less than your tightest grip, the bar will smash your thumb as the bar is lifted, so now you have gravity, the barbell, and 700 pounds smashing your thumb. The tighter the grip of your hook, the less pain to your thumbs. Now, when I say “less” pain to the thumb, that is a relative term. The hook grip is not a pleasant grip. When I say that, I don’t mean a "going to the dentist" kind of unpleasant. I mean it is significantly unpleasant. You are going to have to mentally commit to this grip in order to do it. It is not like lifting sumo for a training cycle and then doing another training cycle with a conventional stance. This is like getting tattooed—you kind of just get through it.
That makes complete and excellent sense.
very timely for me as well.
Thank you, @chromoly
I read so many articles and thought i had gotten as much info as was out there.
That seems so key. Take the movement out of the equation before the bar does it for you.
