Hello all,
I have been trying to use a hookgrip for my powercleans and it was alot better. So I decided to try it for my deadlifts, it hurt like hell and was harder then doing it normaly. I used a mixed grip, is a hookgrip and snatch placement of hands better then using a mixed hand placement?
thanks for the replies
Only you can say what works best for you but I’ve found the same thing. I love hook grip for any cleans but have never found it comfortable OR effective on deads. I don’t know why, maybe it’s time to try it again.
I find that hook grip on deadlifts allows the bar to roll more than mixed grip, and I do better with a mixed grip. The best way I’ve seen/tried to minimise the roll and shifting of the bar is to take the weight first, and then pull. i.e. pull on the bar until you’ve taken the slack out of the bar and your thumb and fingers have stretched as far as they can out of the joint, and then do the explosive pull.
It’s hard to do without dipping down to get a stretch reflex, but for me dipping down after taking up the pressure releases the pressure on my thumbs and lets the bar roll more.
I know it hurts, but I would stick with it. Depending on your hand size and your current grip strength this could be a very useful tool down the road. Try using double overhand for your lighter warm ups, over-under or hook for the heavier warm ups, hook for those heavy triples, doubles or singles. Eventually you’ll reach a point where your grip is starting to slip and slow your progression in the dead, or maybe you’ll choose to compete in powerlifting. Get your thumb nice and tight under as many fingers as you can and rip the bar off the floor, it will hurt but its not going to rip your fingers off–even if it feels like it will.
Alot of my training partners like it for powerlifting. They find that it hurts in training, but once you get on the platform your too hyped to feel it.
thanks for the replies!
If I understood it correct hookgrip = snatch grip + wraping fingers arounds the tumbs?
Or do you use a mixed grip and hook at the same time, that is what i did for deadlifting and it hurt like hell 
[quote]wiiwii wrote:
thanks for the replies!
If I understood it correct hookgrip = snatch grip + wraping fingers arounds the tumbs?
Or do you use a mixed grip and hook at the same time, that is what i did for deadlifting and it hurt like hell :)[/quote]
The first one is the hook grip that Gillingham and, in the later part of his lifter career, Goggins used.
The pain of the grip passes with practice, but I simply found that it was an unreliable way to grab the bar. Most times I put anything over 500 on the bar, the weight just popped out of my hands. Considering that I have never lost a deadlift on grip using a mixed grip, it was not hard for me to abandon the hook.
hookgrip is just wrapping the thumb around the bar and the fingers around the thumb. Olympic lifters use it because you can keep the arms pretty relaxed and still ‘strapped’ onto the bar.
imo for deadlifting, I use hook, only because I’m used to the pain, and my mixed conventional grip is weak in comparison. I still still hold 400+ hook but not anymore w/o
Thanks again!
I will use try it for a while, couldn’t hurt (that much).
mixed hand for snatch width deadlift?!
I don’t think I’ve seen many guys do that…
You get use to hook gripping and it works well.
Koing
FYI
Hook Grip = thumb wraps around bar, fingers wrap around thumb
Snatch Grip = Width of hands on the bar… approximately equal to one’s elbow span.
I have lost some sensation in my thumbs from the hook grip,anyone experienced this also?
Yup. It comes back eventually…