250 for snatch grip DL is a lot, make no mistake about it - and for twelve reps no less. Hook grip hurts a bunch on snatch grip reps. There’s no shame in using straps on that particular exercise, especially if the focus is on improving your posterior chain. I’ll be using straps myself soon for SGDLs, since I’m getting a lot of grip work on my other exercises and my hands are tired, more often than not, by the time I get to them.
Okay I had to look it up and I was ignorant on what a Snatch Grip DL was. So from what I can look up its just a wide grip? Am I missing something? So is it outside the rings is considered snatch grip? I always dead conventional grip with two fingers outside the rings, is this considered Snatch Grip?
[quote]DJHT wrote:
Okay I had to look it up and I was ignorant on what a Snatch Grip DL was. So from what I can look up its just a wide grip? Am I missing something? So is it outside the rings is considered snatch grip? I always dead conventional grip with two fingers outside the rings, is this considered Snatch Grip? [/quote]
I’ve always understood snatch grip to be having the hands out near the collars. It sounds to me like you are using more of a clean-width grip, albeit mixed.
^ Yea I googgled it and had utube videos with varying widths. Now the elite guys I saw had them by the collars but then some were just outside the rings. Thanks man. I have always just gripped where my arms hang straight down, not wide or narrow. I always thought this was the natural position for me on DL.
So another question what benifit do you get from a snatch grip?
[quote]DJHT wrote:
^ Yea I googgled it and had utube videos with varying widths. Now the elite guys I saw had them by the collars but then some were just outside the rings. Thanks man. I have always just gripped where my arms hang straight down, not wide or narrow. I always thought this was the natural position for me on DL.
So another question what benifit do you get from a snatch grip? [/quote]
You have to go deeper and the leverage sucks, so it makes everything posterior strong with weights that are not very heavy. Alwyn Cosgrove’s “The New Rules of Lifting” makes extensive use of them. They are good for improving one’s strength for the snatch as well. Some sadist coaches make you do them from a deficit.
So I’m doing 5/3/1 would it be good to do a couple of months of these? Are these an accessory lift or main lift?
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So I’m doing 5/3/1 would it be good to do a couple of months of these? Are these an accessory lift or main lift? [/quote]
just my opinion, but definitely accessory - the form is just too different. Doing them as a main lift won’t necessarily make your deadlift go up. Straight deadlifting or rack pulls seems to do that best.
Thank you sir appreciate the input, I think next rotation I am going to add some of these in as an accessory lift.