Jeff Cavaliere

you're getting a little bit of assistance on the ring finger, but you're really trying to hook through there.

All four fingers might be on the bar, but most of the force is being held through there.

And you're still pulling down a lot through your lats to pull that bar down.

So it's not like you're just letting it hold all the weight.

But that little hook grip is meant to discourage any meaningful wrist flexion that would take over and take away some of the work of the lats.

But if you've got a history of elbow issues,

You don't need to use that grip.

Like that's just, it's just not worth it.

The extra benefit of a little extra form involvement may not be worth it for you.

But for people who find that they don't have elbow issues and they want to get a little bit of that, you can do it in an intentional way, but you really have to kind of steer away from making these fingers do the bulk of the work.

How did you figure that out?

by having that issue multiple times.

Yeah, now we take a more traditional grip, right?

You're not like relying on those distal tendons to have to do all that work and manage that load.

Now the hand can hold on to hundreds and hundreds of pounds, right?

So if we can just get it into the meat of the hand, now I'm getting all the assistance of the intrinsic hand muscles on top of it.

So now it's no longer a strain or a stress to those particular tendons.

believe me two things contribute to me figuring these things out number one being a physical therapist changed everything for me because i had to think of things differently number two when you're treating patients not everyone everyone presents the same so you have to come up with alternative ways to get to the same end result i might be able to tell nine out of ten people to do a bulgarian split squat to alleviate knee pain but for that tenth person it just lights them up

And they can't do it.

You have to be able to figure out how to work around that.