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My fingers hurt whenever I try to do pull-ups. Grip doesn’t fail but the pain makes me stop the set. What is the solution?
What part hurts? Is it the pressure on the fingers or uncomfortable pinching pressure on a specific spot on your skin?
When I was learning how to deadlift, a big part of getting a good grip was finding a grip high enough on my hand, near the base of where the fingers meet the palm, that wouldn’t put pressure on folds of skin on my palm. At weights above my body weight, I found that I’d have to kinda roll my grip into place so that there was no excess skin being smushed (which causes calluses and then tears the calluses over time, which sucks).
And now that I know what that feels like, I find that I can adjust my pull up grip to also make sure I’m not causing my body weight to pinch my skin at the point of the grip.
Maybe try using lifting straps?
How much load can they handle? How to bail out?
You can use them for any of the big lifts they have essentially no weight limit. You just release your grip and they come loose. Lifting straps or versa grips basically the same mechanism. It feels like the weight is in your palm instead of your fingers
I will have to try them out.