Lifting straps

georgetown

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What are peoples opinions on lifting straps if the goal is muscle growth/size. Can training forearms directly help?
 
Like from a bodybuilding perspective. Build a more aesthetically pleasing physique. I have found they helped me target my back more in rows and other lifts but this was a couple years ago and i have progressesed without them but thinking of going back
 
georgetown said:
Like from a bodybuilding perspective. Build a more aesthetically pleasing physique. I have found they helped me target my back more in rows and other lifts but this was a couple years ago and i have progressesed without them but thinking of going back
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If you aren't powerlifting then by all means strap up if you'd like. For pure aesthetics there's no reason not to.
 
Use straps, unless your going to compete in powerlifting, you won't really need gorilla grip strength. I train in powerlifting and my grip is strong even though I normally use straps for 70+% of heavy lifts
 
Tank999 said:
Your grip will never be as strong as your back, so why not use straps?
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2nded, and whether you are PLing or not. I can always train my grip quite hard several times per week. Not true of my deadlift or my PC.
I will also go as far as saying, my grip has caught up to my pulls, even though I was using straps for max rep work. It is like my body knows if I have xxx in my hands with straps, to increase the grip anyway and adjust eventually to handle xxx without straps. At least with mixed grip for me.
 
Unless the lifting is specifically for grip strength, use the straps. If I'm targeting back or delts or traps, my grip pisses out on me waaaaay before those actual muscle groups do, so not using straps results in me not adequately training those muscles.
 
MidwestBeast said:
Unless the lifting is specifically for grip strength, use the straps. If I'm targeting back or delts or traps, my grip pisses out on me waaaaay before those actual muscle groups do, so not using straps results in me not adequately training those muscles.
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Nice, for delts are you talking straps during upright rows and laterals?
 
georgetown said:
Nice, for delts are you talking straps during upright rows and laterals?
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Haven't done it for a while, but every once in a while, I'd use it on DBs for side lateral raises; but typically for volume work. My grip just peters out at a certain point while my muscles are like "bro, we're still ready to go" lol.
 
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