Crushing grip strength only makes small part of your supporting grip, it's mostly on your forearms, and training with or without straps has very little to do with that, forearm will build up once you deadlift bigger and bigger weights, the intensity of that load matters, even if you use figure 8 straps which will hang the weight on your arms without any grip, your forearms will still develop to the level of that weight in time. You might say "but my forearms do get sore enough that I lost grips", that will happen without strap training also, every starting deadlifters have that for a period of time, but once you train enough, your forearms grow to be good enough, it will never happen again. A simple question, strongman events actually ask for real crushing grip strength, do strongman avoid using strap so they have better grip? No, strongman use straps way more than powerlifters in training, and they even perfer figure 8 straps because it doesn't break at all. Straps have no correlation with stronger or weaker grip, it's only in your head. The most efficient way to train a certain muscle group, is to follow it's main designed function, your forearms main function is to withstand Isometric load that delivers thru your arm, contracting those muscles and close your palm in to fist, is only secondary, it's the same idea with calves and abs, isometric training helps the most, and deadlift itself is the most intense isometric training you can do with your forearms.

The answer is you shouldn't use them, and this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

@cleanname4439

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goofy

@oldnatty61

Жыл бұрын

@@cleanname4439 You may want to study the history of strength and conditioning before you write a comment that shows you don't know what your talking about.

@MxPinky

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You should use them safety is most important and there are better forms to train grip than a deadlift. Don’t sacrifice health and safety cause you want meaty durable forearms. Just get meaty forearms

@oldnatty61

5 ай бұрын

@@rob.abroad1522 The point of training is to make it harder not easier. Making the grip work hard w/in a compound movement like dreads or a pull does much more than just work grip. It sends a growth signal to the upper body. Wrist wraps takes that away. Consequently you're creating a weakness and leaving gains on the table leaving.

@saltminer4463

5 ай бұрын

@@oldnatty61not using straps when you can easily do more weight due to a weak grip means you’d be leaving way more gains on the table by not using straps than using them