Platform: The Correct Place in Your Hand for the Bar

[Mark Rippetoe]

The Correct Place for the Bar in Your Hands in the Deadlift | Mark Rippetoe

[Geoff Bischoff]

If you have a heavy line of callus just above your “proximal digital crease” (blue book, page 83), then you are gripping the bar incorrectly.

Well crap. That's what that is. Le-sigh.

[VNV]

The Correct Place for the Bar in Your Hands in the Deadlift | Mark Rippetoe

I have callouses at the base of my thumb from the hook grip. When I tuck the thumb in, the skin at its base puckers or folds between it and the bar. It used to tear, but now it just gets slightly frayed and stays calloused.

Anyone else experience this?