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LIFT HEAVY,
LIFT SAFE.

The only gym straps you’ll need—engineered for secure pulls, consistent technique, and progressive overload.

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Built for serious pulling: secure, durable, and engineered for repeatable performance.

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The Science Behind Straps

Evidence-based reasons to use lifting straps: optimize stimulus to the target musculature, manage fatigue, and train safely across rep ranges.

> 20%
Longer time-under-tension before grip fails
↓ RPE
Lower perceived exertion at equal load
↑ Volume
More quality reps per session
↑ Safety
Secure interface on heavy sets

Why Use Straps

Prioritize the Prime Movers

Your back and posterior chain can handle more load than your finger flexors. Straps let spinal erectors, lats, and traps take center stage without premature grip failure.

Manage Local Fatigue

Reduce localized forearm fatigue to maintain bar path and rep quality across sets—especially during high-volume hypertrophy blocks.

Enhance Safety

A secure strap-bar interface reduces micro-slips, keeps the bar close, and supports consistent technique when approaching limit sets.

Extend Effective Reps

Push sets closer to effective proximity to failure for the target muscles instead of ending due to grip breakdown.

Motor Learning Consistency

Stable hand-bar contact improves kinesthetic feedback and repeatability—valuable when practicing RDLs, pulls, and hip hinges.

Better Load Progression

Keep progressive overload focused on posterior chain strength, not forearm endurance, when the session goal demands it.

Who They Help

Hypertrophy-focused liftersPull days and posterior-chain blocksHigh-volume RDLs, rows, and pulldownsInjured/recovering hands or skin tearsLong-armed lifters with extended ROMAdvanced trainees close to limit loadsCoaches managing fatigue distribution

What They Improve

  • Time-under-tension on posterior chain before grip gives out
  • Rep quality near fatigue due to reduced bar slip
  • Load tolerance for hinge and row patterns
  • Ability to separate grip training from back training when needed
  • Technique consistency across heavy singles and volume sets
Simplified illustration: where the limiting factor shifts when adding straps
Heavy RDL SetTarget muscles vs Grip
High-Rep RowsTarget muscles vs Grip
Volume DeadliftsTarget muscles vs Grip
Illustrative only; exact distributions vary by individual and context.
Mechanism Overview

Load Transfer

Straps create a friction-locked loop that transfers a portion of the load path from finger flexors to the wrist-strap interface, delaying local forearm fatigue and preserving grip stability.

Motor Output Allocation

With fewer neural resources devoted to maximum gripping, more output is available to the prime movers (lats, traps, erectors), improving effective reps and maintaining bar path under fatigue.

Technique Stability

Reduced micro-slips decrease shearing at the hand-bar interface, yielding more consistent proprioceptive feedback and safer joint stacking through the pull.

Notes: Practical strength and hypertrophy programming often separates grip development from posterior-chain overload to better manage systemic and local fatigue. Strap use is context-dependent and complements, not replaces, dedicated grip training.

  • Programming frameworks emphasize proximity to failure for target muscles when the session goal is hypertrophy.
  • Grip training can be scheduled independently (e.g., holds, crush, pinch) to avoid interfering with back-day objectives.
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