I cant use straps they weird me out, I lose my concentration trying to mess with that crap, I cant have things touching me while I lift.
Chalk every time.
On one workout I forgot my chalk bag and no one else seemed to have any (out of town commercial gym), so I just found a place where the drywall was kinda dented in from people doing t-bar rows in the corner and rubbed the drywall dust into my hands.
Worked like a fucking charm.
I don’t agree with using the grippers nor heavy shrugs. Grippers haven’t done a thing for me and shrugging with that much weight and using a mixed grip doesn’t seem like a good idea.
Do some fat bar work (you can buy plastic handles which snap onto a normal barbell) along with some reverse thumbless grip barbell curls. Those two things alone will improve your grip, or at least they worked for me.
[quote]Hanley wrote:
matsm21 wrote:
heavy shrugs for grip. if you can shrug more then you deadlift(which you should be able to do) grip is a non issue. oh and chalk, just be discreet and clean up after yourself
Sure that’s a good idea??
I dunno about you but I wouldn’t be happy shrugging a bar with a mixed gripped. Even using 6oish% of my best DL my bicep seems to think it would be a good idea to stop after a couple of reps![/quote]
as long as you don’t flex your arms you’ll be fine. It won’t be any dangerous then deadlifting that weight, and probably less so because you can really get locked in. I won’t do it on a day I’m hitting a heavy single, but on “lighter” days. It’s great for the top end of the deadlift, and for getting used to heavier weights, much like board work for the bench.
I do concede that the op would probably be better served with sets of 10 until he gets more advanced/mass, but you shouldn’t have a problem with it hanley.