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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Hook grip is unreliable? | Topic Thunder

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We’re still in Topic Thunder mode this week.

Our panel unpacks this hot take, “Hook grip Is unreliable and may be overrated.”

Hook grip is a bandwagon that most lifters jump on at one time or another to try to up their deadlift. Is that a mistake?

Joe Stanek and Nico Flores of Gameday Barbell joined us in addressing this question. You can find Joe on TikTok @joegameday and Nico @nicoflores83kg on Instagram and TikTok
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Transcript

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1:01.2

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Topic Thunder.

1:10.4

Here with the brand new crew, game day, barbell in the house. Our voices are a little

1:16.7

wrecked. We had a crazy weekend. So forgive us. We're here to party.

1:22.1

Ladies and gentlemen, the hottest take of the day, hot hot off the presses hook grip isn't

1:28.5

reliable and maybe highly overrated.

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