Do you use straps for Deadlifts? Do you wear gloves because your hands hurt? Look at the picture at the top. The guy deadlifts a heavy weight with his bare hands. How come he doesn’t need straps or gloves?

If you grip the bar correctly on Deadlifts, you’ll minimize callus formation, won’t need straps or gloves and can even add a few extra pounds to your max. This post will teach you how to grip the bar correctly on Deadlifts.

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Lowering the bar is one of the things that goes bad most often on the Deadlift. Waking up with knee pain the day after because you hit your knees again. Or worse, back pain because you rounded your back on the way down.
I see both errors over & over in the Forum: rounding [...]

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