As i'm going up in deadlifting weight, i find my grip gives way earlier than any other part of my body, making me lose reps because the bar feels like it's slipping off my fingers. I tried incorporating hook grip into the exercise, and while the bar felt a bit more secure, I felt my middle finger was rubbing against my thumb nail and making it feel like it was pulling it out, and causing a bunch of pain, and no matter what I tried it always came down to that when the bar left the ground.
Any advice?
Do you do mixed grip (one hand forward, one hand backward)? I recommend it, though my grip is starting to fail at my weight now (around 300 pounds). But before that it was failing earlier, like at 250 or 260 idk
Don't use hook grip. I never had grip issues up to 475 lbs with mixed grip and chalk. Just make sure you alternate which palm is facing out each set and you won't have issues with strength imbalance.
staggered grip or straps. Just be a strapped cyborg honestly, it's a weird "fetisch for a fake nature" that people use to justify not just using a peice of cloth to help lol
Disagree with everyone advocating mixed grip here. That shit eventually gave me golfer's elbow and I have seen others get biceps tears from it. Stick with the hook- it is like having an infinite grip superpower once you acclimate to it. But it will take time.
Practice just doing it for your lighter warm up sets for a few weeks. Your thumbs will gradually adjust. What was once a sharp pain dulls into a comforting, if not outright pleasing, mild soreness (like a good DOMS on your traps after a heavy pull day). Taping the thumbs helps too. Get the self sticking, tearable medical tape. It's a lot cheaper than hook grip tape marketed to lifters.
I just go staggered grip when my hands fail me. Gotta switch it up regularly though
You have to keep doing it and you'll adjust eventually and it won't hurt as much. Or just use straps. I'm up to 500 lb and I use straps on my top sets, I have no shame that my grip isn't as strong as my posterior chain lol.
I just bought myself some wrist straps on aliexpress and still do a conventional overhand grip.
