I would also recommend hook gripping ALLLL your deadlifts including warm ups for a while. Takes time to desensitize your thumbs, unless you a sadist and just love the pain.
I would also recommend hook gripping ALLLL your deadlifts including warm ups for a while. Takes time to desensitize your thumbs, unless you a sadist and just love the pain.
There's something wrong with your hook if your grip is strong enough to overhand 265 but you can't hook 275.
Take your grip by rotating you hands internally so that your thumbs lay straight across the bar. Then grip and rotate back at the same time and your thumbs will be held mostly by your middle fingers, much less by your index and ring fingers.
It hurts like a mofo at first but chalk on the insides of your thumbs helps a lot. When you develop a bit of a callus switch to vet tape on your thumbs. Three layers of vet tape on your thumbs will make it pain-free.
Ok so I decided to deload to 255 today for my working set and managed to barley complete the set with hook grip. My issue isn’t the pain but more so that the bar slowly slips off of my thumbnail. I’ll be sure to pick up some chalk and vet tape.
Jesus. No chalk. No answer to the bar diameter question. Helpless here.