I just bought these hooks to help with my pulling movement and I don’t understand what the purpose of the strap is. It has a lot more slack than the hook so it’s always the hook, not the strap, that takes the brunt of the weight. What I am supposed to use the strap for?
if these are the hooks you are talking about, the strap is a lanyard so you can wear it around your neck. convenient,no?
[quote]belligerent wrote:
I just bought these hooks to help with my pulling movement and I don’t understand what the purpose of the strap is. It has a lot more slack than the hook so it’s always the hook, not the strap, that takes the brunt of the weight. Today I used them without doing anything with the straps and they worked fine. What am I missing, and how do I stop missing it?[/quote]
these?
Trying one last time here
I never understood hooks. Straps I use, but when I’m moving lots of weight, I wanna be able to bail when I need to. If you’re pulling 400lbs and something goes wrong, you’re going down with a lot of weight in your hands. I’d rather be able to drop it.
[quote]Hyena wrote:
I never understood hooks. Straps I use, but when I’m moving lots of weight, I wanna be able to bail when I need to. If you’re pulling 400lbs and something goes wrong, you’re going down with a lot of weight in your hands. I’d rather be able to drop it.[/quote]
I have rheumatoid arthritis which has attacked my hands and caused joint damage, so I have trouble with my grip on heavy pulling exercises. I’m not doing 1RM deadlift attempts where there’s a risk of missing. I’m using these for chins, rows, etc. I use straps too but they’re becoming less adequate as my weights increase.
They look like a strap/hook combo so you can use both at the same time, which makes no sense to me. If the hook is on the bar, the straps will do nothing.
Maybe just cut the straps off.
Might be supposed to stop the bar from rolling when doing rows, deads, etc. If you don’t like them cut them off or just ignore them.
I have a par of hooks, but I hate them. Good old straps work a lot better in my opinion.
I picked up a pair of ‘hooks’ years ago when I was having hand/wrist issues myself. Mine didn’t have straps attached to them though, just metal hooks. It helped somewhat, but the length of the material between the part that went around your wrist, to the actual hook always seemed too long, so I could never even wrap my hand all the way around the bar over the hook. Eventually I just abandoned using them altogether.
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[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
I picked up a pair of ‘hooks’ years ago when I was having hand/wrist issues myself. Mine didn’t have straps attached to them though, just metal hooks. It helped somewhat, but the length of the material between the part that went around your wrist, to the actual hook always seemed too long, so I could never even wrap my hand all the way around the bar over the hook. Eventually I just abandoned using them altogether.
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I don’t think you are suppose to wrap you hands round the bar with hooks. They aren’t for heavy movements. At least in my humble oppinion. They take your complete grip out of the movement and become an extension of your arm forcing you to perform the movement solely with the muscle involved. I only see them as being used for lat pulling and cable rows or any movement with less weight involved.
They are a pretty good tool to teach which muscles are involed for certain movements. Anythig Heavy is a HUGE no no. They stress the hand to wrist connection way too much.
Maybe, but I wish I could have ‘curled’ my hand shut more. It just felt like the weight was going to pull my hands off at the wrists when I used them. Not really too helpful.
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