 Hey everybody, today my floating head and I want to talk about gripping the bar during deadlifts and I know I'm zoomed in but I feel like if we zoom out we're not going to be able to see all the details that we want so I'm just going to hold up a small large hand really close to this camera here. Ideas with gripping so generally the grip that most people are just going to take automatically is called a double overhand grip so I take both hands and there's a bar here and I curl my fingers around it and then I wrap my thumb on top. That is a good general grip and that's the one that I would prefer overall. I like to warm up that way as much as I can but what you'll notice is that if both hands are oriented this way the bar starts to roll and it opens the fingers. So as the bar rolls it makes the lever longer on the fingers and as they get tired it just it's a positive feedback mechanism that just keeps going until it's done until you drop the bar. You didn't need to know it was a positive feedback mechanism but that's what it is in case you're wondering. So this double overhand grip is really nice if you if you can hang on to it right. If the stress isn't too hard, if the set isn't too long, if the weight isn't too heavy. Next kind of grip that we're going to talk about the mixed grip so instead of having double overhand you have one under one over and so as I hold the bar here it doesn't roll out of both hands as one hand gets tired it rolls into the other hand okay and the other hand can catch it and prevent this rolling prevent this excessive positive feedback. Good thing we talked about it right. So this one drawbacks are it does turn you a little bit you'll notice if you if you take both hands and you turn one as far as you can your body starts to turn that way and so even if you don't turn as far as you can you still get a little bit of this tendency because you start to build tension as you rotate and your body is naturally going to push itself away from the tension. So you have to think about that if you're worried about over stressing one side in particular then one don't watch any of my videos because you're going to learn that there's not really that much you can do about that but two you can alternate sides if you want but if you're looking for max weight the way is you maybe you alternate sometimes in training but you have one grip that is better than the other one and you're going to stick with that one for your your maximal lifts for your sets that you're trying to push yourself because generally grip isn't going to be the limiting factor it's going to be leg drive it's going to be keeping everything it's going to be that total nervous system drive. Okay so we talked about double overhand we talked about the mixed grip and now let's talk about a another variation had a little frog there of the double overhand but this time instead of the thumbs wrapping on top the thumbs wrap inside the fingers and so you have this bar here and the thumb goes first and then the fingers clamp it and so what we do here is we create a little clamp I turned my hand the wrong way I don't know if you're ever going to be able to see this do it with me right if thumb first fingers follow hold on to that thumb specifically the nail especially if your hands are about my size and this works kind of like wrist wraps where it just ties you to the bar I got to tell you it's pretty painful some people some really strong people are going to do it that way and that the major drawback is that it hurts like hell but the major benefit here is now I'm not getting the the twisting of the mixed grip that we talked about now I just have this nice double overhand symmetrical position it allows me to recruit both my legs evenly and I can't I don't have to worry about my grip so much again it hurts it feels like you're ripping your thumbnail off start low you got to build up some tolerance I'm you're you'll probably be okay but if anything hurts really really bad or if your thumbnail looks like it's falling off stop doing it that is that is though an effective grip to to take on and so these are the major grips that we have you know we'll also have wrist wraps I believe I already made a video about that last week when I was filming the same kind of idea right it allows me to do the double overhand but then it ties me to the bar and so this way this is a slightly wimper your way where I don't have to rip my thumbnail off you don't have to be quite as sick in the head to do this but it'll tie you to the bar it takes the grip out of the equation it allows you to keep developing that upper back keep developing that lower body and keep pushing that part of your deadlift that section of your deadlift that piece up right so those are the grips the overhand double overhand you got the mixed grip you've got the hook grip and then you could you could hold the bar with straps wrist wraps wrist wraps wrist wraps are like the things that prevent your wrist from bending wrist straps tie around the bar just to be totally clear if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment below