I saw a dude wearing straps as he performed dumbbell alternate curls

[Grape Ape]

seriously. Any exercise that your grip is limiting factor can benefit from straps IMHO.... it may look gay but if youre trying to exhaust muscle and you cant because your grip is the weak link (and will always be in most cases), why not use them?

Somebody here who knows this better than I can maybe answer this - can getting your back stronger than what you body is capable of lifting on it own lead to imbalances that could leave one more susceptable to injury?

I'm asking because a lot of injuries I've seen get chalked up  to impblances - hammy/quad, etc....

[Donny]

I always use them on back and traps,fuck it,when I want to build my grip or forearms,I just work them seperately.

There`s no way you can tax your back fully before your grip gives out.

I do not however use then on cable crossovers!  

Agreed.. i used them a lot doing Hanging leg raises from a chinning Bar.

[Big Chiro Flex]

Somebody here who knows this better than I can maybe answer this - can getting your back stronger than what you body is capable of lifting on it own lead to imbalances that could leave one more susceptable to injury?

I'm asking because a lot of injuries I've seen get chalked up  to impblances - hammy/quad, etc....

That discussion of imbalances is opening up a whole nother can of worms though...

IMO, your comment is correct, except in the concept of back:forearm strength, it doesn't really matter because a huge imbalance here ultimately is not really going to affect your biomechanics.

Now if we're talking quads:hammies, pecs:external rotators....ABSOLUTELY imbalances are something to be aware of.

[Grape Ape]

That discussion of imbalances is opening up a whole nother can of worms though...

IMO, your comment is correct, except in the concept of back:forearm strength, it doesn't really matter because a huge imbalance here ultimately is not really going to affect your biomechanics.

Now if we're talking quads:hammies, pecs:external rotators....ABSOLUTELY imbalances are something to be aware of.

Thank you sir.

I guess I just have no desire to go to a point where grip is a limiting factor.  I found when I shit canned the straps, it took about a month, but I could handle all the same weights.  I think I'm at a phase where if I got that strong, I'd end up hurting myself.

[Big Chiro Flex]

Thank you sir.

I guess I just have no desire to go to a point where grip is a limiting factor.  I found when I shit canned the straps, it took about a month, but I could handle all the same weights.  I think I'm at a phase where if I got that strong, I'd end up hurting myself.

Yeah that's a very valid strap-philosophy, I knows lot of muscle beasts that share your sentiments. I try to minimize their use as well except for 2-3 exercise where I've found the good outweighs the bad.

[CalvinH]

I haven't used straps in years.

[Big Chiro Flex]

I haven't used straps in years.

Well you're also one of the bigger guys here.

[CalvinH]

Well you're also one of the bigger guys here.

I sense sarcasm...

[Big Chiro Flex]

I sense sarcasm...

I would never joke about something like that.

[chaos]

Sounds like alot of skinny, weak forearmed keyboard weightlifters here.

[Big Chiro Flex]

Sounds like alot of skinny, weak forearmed keyboard weightlifters here.

A lotta people here are pound for pound significantly stronger than you are stud 

[Henda]

Straps to me make the bar feel lighter in the hand but heavier on the back.

[chaos]

A lotta people here are pound for pound significantly stronger than you are stud 

Yes, I don't use drugs, China Flex.

[The True Adonis]

A lotta people here are pound for pound significantly stronger than you are stud 

Like me. 

[chaos]

Like me. 

Yes, you have an extremely inflated sense of self worth that has led to a disproportionately large ego.

[The True Adonis]

Yes, you have an extremely inflated sense of self worth that has led to a disproportionately large ego.

Perhaps, but I can still do many more pullups than you. 

[The_Punisher]

that's power right here.....shit, from now on, that's how you lift

[Ronnie Rep]

I dont use straps very much anymore. I do think that straps are useful, but I want to have strong hands so I limit my usage of them. I will use straps only on barbell shrugs & deadlifts.

Now I can understand people using straps on heavy barbell/dumbbell rows or pull-ups. No problem there.


BUT.... I dont understand why somebody would use straps on curls.

Anything  60lbs or over okay for dumbbell curls!

[The Abdominal Snoman]

I've seen someone use straps on biceps curls and his reasoning was to thicken the bar. He didn't use it as a strap...

[Big Chiro Flex]

Yes, I don't use drugs, China Flex.

 

[The Abdominal Snoman]

that's power right here.....shit, from now on, that's how you lift

Real weights too. Not like that g4p nebrew pretender Kali...

[Man of Steel]

Real weights too. Not like that g4p nebrew pretender Kali...

Stan, Spoto, Greene, Poundstone....these fellas are super-elite beasts.

[galeniko]

hell is use them even for cardio and to when going out to the disco

[Man of Steel]

hell is use them even for cardio and to when going out to the disco

   pure Getbiggery!

[Rambone]

Does anyone else use lifting straps while stroking their girthy dong? I used to use versa grips till it accidentally caught onto my balls and tore my sack.