Hook grip vs. Straps | stef bradford

[stef]

All sorts of things show cycles of popularity and trends, from hairstyles, slang, avocado toast, and even Pantone’s color of the year (it is 13-1023 aka “peach fuzz” for 2024, if you care to know) outside the gym, to things like programming approaches, lifts to embrace or avoid, and equipment inside the gym. Fashions and trends are often harmless, or even fun, but letting them get in the way of making progress in the gym is silly...

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[John Watson]

For heavy pulls I use straps over hook grip without compunction.
I don’t think there’s an appreciable grip training effect from hook grip, and I don’t compete.
Maybe I’d get more grip training if I did heavy deadlifts with mixed grip, that might be a sacrifice I’m making, but I prefer the symmetry of a prone grip.

[SouthernLifter]

Straps always modify the pull lever of the lift, and not in a good way. At least in my own experience.

[MAD9692]

It would be great if they had SS branded straps available for sale.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Straps always modify the pull lever of the lift, and not in a good way. At least in my own experience.

Elaborate on this, because it's not clear.

[Ray Gillenwater]

It would be great if they had SS branded straps available for sale.

Good idea. From what I can tell, there's a hole in the market. Two strips of unstitched seatbelt webbing with SS branding would be cool. Especially the hater comments.

[Jason Donaldson]

Good idea. From what I can tell, there's a hole in the market. Two strips of unstitched seatbelt webbing with SS branding would be cool. Especially the hater comments.

Sustainably upcycled from post-consumer electric vehicles?

[Johnsonville]

It would be great if they had SS branded straps available for sale.

You’re supposed to cut them out of your back seatbelts, because nobody wears the belt back there anyways

[SouthernLifter]

Elaborate on this, because it's not clear.

When I use straps, I feel that it is more difficult to set the lumbar spine and squeeze the chest. But maybe it's just a feeling.

And on the contrary, when I used the hook grip I felt that setting the back was much easier. That´s all.

[Mark Rippetoe]

When I use straps, I feel that it is more difficult to set the lumbar spine and squeeze the chest. But maybe it's just a feeling.

Interestingly enough, I don't feel that way because I have learned how to do it.