Crossfit Hookgrip Pain

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Crossfit hookgrip pain. Happened to me for a long time. Sorta cool actually haha. This subreddit is for discussion of crossfit functional fitness weightlifting and the lifestyle nutrition and training methodologies press j to jump to the feed. Hookgrip is a method used to grip onto a barbell which is generally utilised by olympic weightlifters in order to improve their grip strength.

I tape my thumbs bent because if i m using a hook grip for a lifting session i m not usually doing too much else that requires a lot of thumb mobility. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. But after those three months i switched back to the 35 bar annnnd the hook grip was a piece of cake. It is the strongest grip available to you.

This grip requires you to wrap your thumb around the bar and then wrap your index and middle fingers over your thumb in order to secure the grip. With 1 000 000 readers and 5 000 000 pageviews monthly from more than 185 countries it connects the worldwide fitness community. Learn how to set your hook grip so that it is safer and painless than it already is. For a workout like grace or isabel you will save a lot of energy and decrease the chances of wearing your grip out in the middle of the workout.

At the end of the day this is why we use the hook. You ll still grip the bar tightly with the hook grip but any crossfit workout with high rep cleans or snatches is bound to do a number on your grip. So for three months i started lifting with the 45 bar. When i started learning the hook grip it hurt like hell.

For the pull of both the snatch and the clean this method of gripping is an eventual necessity to maintain control of the barbell during the violent explosion of the second pull.