The hook grip is a pronated palms facing the lifter grip in which the thumb is trapped between the bar and usually the first and second fingers depending on hand size.
Crossfit hookgrip pain.
All in all practicing the hook grip is the best way to eliminate the pain.
Learn how to set your hook grip so that it is safer and painless than it already is.
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.
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What i ve also noticed is that my thumbnails also have these little white warped patterns in them from my hookgrip.
Sorta cool actually haha.
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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.
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So for three months i started lifting with the 45 bar.
When i started learning the hook grip it hurt like hell.
But after those three months i switched back to the 35 bar annnnd the hook grip was a piece of cake.
At the end of the day this is why we use the hook.
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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.
Happened to me for a long time.