This sounds horrifically scary. All I can imagine are my socks slipping on the platform. Barefoot I can get behind though.
I always deadlift/squat in just socks, albeit itās been many years since Iāve moved any real weight. I also donāt use a belt or any other smart things so Iām probably not the best person to talk about safe.
Edit: ironic, considering our conversation in your log.
I think I was pulling more at the start of the log haha. And yes, all kilos.
Deadlift in socks, but wouldnāt risk the squat in them. The platform is too slippery, and itās also too damn cold even indoors.
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Luckily, my gym is kept hotter than the surface of the sun so I donāt have this issue.
Tuesday, 5th of November 2019 (2019-11-05)
Two hours rope climbing, got a route that I previously failed to get passed the crux on after some free beta from the route-setter. Iām genuinely too tall for it.
Took two bad falls where I stayed on the wall, probably tearing my rotator cuffs to shreds but it did not have an impact on my Wednesday BP session so 
Wednesday, 6th of November 2019 (2019-11-06)
Nuttyās Program
Session 48
BP 4-6 @ 72.5 (ss: Pull-up 10,10,6+4,5+3+2,6+3+1 @ 10kg). Progress
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Single-arm DB rows 5x10-12 @ 34kg (ss: DB OHP Press 4x12 @ 14kg / hand).
Mostly ten reps
Push-ups/Curls/Face pulls
Is this 10 pull ups with 10kg added? Thatās some strong work dude.
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It is, thank you!
Is that climbing strength? What kind of climbing do you do?
I climb twice a week, indoors in a climbing gym. I do boulder sessions sometimes, but not often enough. I used to climb three times a week but after my finger injury whenever I push that frequency I get hurt again. So, it ends up being top-rope for the most part, and some lead-climbing. I wouldnāt attribute my pull-ups prowess to climbing all that much, I tend to focus on using my legs more.
Before I completely over-did my diet I used to be able to do a single chin-up with 40kg strapped to my body. And that was before I started climbing really. I might have gotten that back now. My 3RM is 24kg.
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Thatās some decent pulling power man. Or Iām just very poor at pull ups. More likely, both.
When I was climbing, I attributed my pull up/grip strength to climbing, especially campus boarding. It may easily be the fact that I was doing a butt load of pull ups to get better at climbing (read: showing off in a boulder room).
And by pull-up do you mean underhand grip? (Palms facing towards you)
Wouldnāt that be a chin up?
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I always mix up which is which bug yeah your right
Yeah man thatās really solid. With the added weight. Greatcjob
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In the real world, I call them all pull ups. I genuinely donāt know why I was being pedantic.
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Ooh thatās a good wordā¦ pendanticā¦ I like it. Always wished I have a bigger vocabulary
With so many posters coming along speaking immaculate English as a second/third/fourth language, I feel I need to up my game sometimes.
Edit: please donāt look at the edit revealing just how poor my English really is.
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Pull-ups to me is pronated grip (palms facing away from me) and chin-ups are supinated grip (palms facing toward me). Weirdly enough, in Sweden, the exercises have the same name as they do in English but a pull-up unequivocally refers to palms facing towards you whilst no-one really talks about chin-ups at all.
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Climbing has helped my grip tremendously on the deadlift, but Iāll use straps in the gym now to save my hands for climbing ;D Should probably give that practice up now that I think about it objectively.
Iāve never trained both simultaneously to be able to comment, although I always thought climbing would be a perfect compliment to lifting in many ways.
Spending much of my teenage years climbing is what I attribute my (relatively) strong grip to though. Even years/decades later, Iāve yet to fail a lift due to grip failing.