I pulled heavy with a hook grip for the first time yesterday

[jacketwrestler1]

Felt a lot smoother than I was used to. I also set my hips a little higher like advised to in my form check video. One small problem though.

 

[seau45]

i see no problem bud.chix dig that

 

[oxcart]

Nature of the beast. Though have you been building up - meaning that it's the first time you've pulled heavy hooking? Or that it's the first time you've pulled ever using hookgrip?

 

[Nedrin]

I use hook grip for everything, including DLs, I only bleed if my nails are really short, dont know why, I bleed underneath them when I go heavy. (190kg, I'm 73Kg).

 

[jacketwrestler1]

Nature of the beast. Though have you been building up - meaning that it's the first time you've pulled heavy hooking? Or that it's the first time you've pulled ever using hookgrip?

Did my warm up sets with it before. Decided yesterday to do my working sets with it.

 

[DrBdan]

Based on the location of your callouses and the torn skin it looks like you might be holding the bar too deep in your palm. The bar should be no where near the middle of your palm where you have torn skin on your left hand. If you hold the bar too deep in your palm it will shift downwards pinching the hell out of your skin. The bar is going to move no matter what so you might as well start with the bar closer to your fingers. This will also probably help prevent the torn skin that you have on the base of your thumb.

 

[scoopj]

Seems unusual to me. I can understand ripping the one off of your pinky, but the one towards the center of your hand leads me to believe it's how you're holding the bar. I am also not getting callouses around my thumbs and I've been using hook for a couple of months.

Do any other experienced hook grippers on here get thumb and middle of the hand callouses from hook?

 

[JauntyAngle]

+1 to what DrBdan is saying. IIRC, the key to keeping calluses reasonable is keeping the bar where it wants to go- right in the heel of the palm for pushes, and at the edge of the palm just before the fingers for pulls. I do have some pretty nice calluses, but they are in the all in a line, just before the fingers.

 

[VoodooPlata]

Guys, I hate to be the grammar police (especially in this oft-dyslexic place) but please.

Calluses. Callous is an adjective, meaning "devoid of empathy". A Callus (without the O) is a hardening of the skin due to hook grip.

On-Topic: How heavy did you pull, just curious?

 

[JauntyAngle]

Guys, I hate to be the grammar police (especially in this oft-dyslexic place) but please.

Calluses. Callous is an adjective, meaning "devoid of empathy". A Callus (without the O) is a hardening of the skin due to hook grip.

On-Topic: How heavy did you pull, just curious?

I'll take your accuracy, and raise you for pedantry: errors of word choice aren't errors of grammar- they are errors of diction.

 

[flak]

Seems unusual to me. I can understand ripping the one off of your pinky, but the one towards the center of your hand leads me to believe it's how you're holding the bar. I am also not getting callouses around my thumbs and I've been using hook for a couple of months.

Do any other experienced hook grippers on here get thumb and middle of the hand callouses from hook?

Not sure if it's from hook-grip deads, but I have calluses on my palms and thumbs in approximately the places where the raw spots are on TS's hands in the photos.

 

[PussyPants]

Guys, I hate to be the grammar police (especially in this oft-dyslexic place) but please.

Calluses. Callous is an adjective, meaning "devoid of empathy". A Callus (without the O) is a hardening of the skin due to hook grip.

On-Topic: How heavy did you pull, just curious?

How heavily

 

[scoopj]

Guys, I hate to be the grammar police (especially in this oft-dyslexic place) but please.

Calluses. Callous is an adjective, meaning "devoid of empathy". A Callus (without the O) is a hardening of the skin due to hook grip.

On-Topic: How heavy did you pull, just curious?

My hands are completely devoid of empathy (common trait of big lifters), so I'm not sure what you're going on about.

 

[VoodooPlata]

I'll take your accuracy, and raise you for pedantry: errors of word choice aren't errors of grammar- they are errors of diction.

Superlatively played, sir.

EDIT: "pull heavy" is slang, and thus not inaccurate grammar.

Also, is there a diction police or is it just a task force within the grammar police?

 

[JauntyAngle]

Superlatively played, sir.

EDIT: "pull heavy" is slang, and thus not inaccurate grammar.

Also, is there a diction police or is it just a task force within the grammar police?

At the moment, a Task Force, but we are trying to get independent status, like the border police and coast guard tend to have. What we really need is some kind of massive word misuse-based Terror attack, get people's attention on how badly funded and neglected the diction police are.

 

[PussyPants]

Concerning oneself with the spelling of another is only worthwhile when there is a misunderstanding of meaning.

 

[jacketwrestler1]

Guys, I hate to be the grammar police (especially in this oft-dyslexic place) but please.

Calluses. Callous is an adjective, meaning "devoid of empathy". A Callus (without the O) is a hardening of the skin due to hook grip.

On-Topic: How heavy did you pull, just curious?

460 for 8x1

 

[VoodooPlata]

Concerning oneself with the spelling of another is only worthwhile when there is a misunderstanding of meaning.

rite i c ur poinnt sry to derale the thredd

 

[PussyPants]

rite i c ur poinnt sry to derale the thredd

U jst knead 2 skwart mo, sun.

 

[TeddyRoosevelt]

At the moment, a Task Force, but we are trying to get independent status, like the border police and coast guard tend to have. What we really need is some kind of massive word misuse-based Terror attack, get people's attention on how badly funded and neglected the diction police are.

So, if I understand correctly: You, a lexicon lover, are employed as a Diction Detective for said Task Force?