Originally Posted by
BOSS
Even though I mostly pull without straps, they're very much a necessity. The fact of the matter is if you want to be very good at deadlifting you need to do a lot of it. What isn't apparent to everybody is that when you're grip isn't failing but is just barely secure, is that you can't pull as forcefully. Straps mean you can overload both the weight and more importantly, the volume. Like I said, you must do a lot of deadlifting. It's not smart to shred your hands just to do it--it'll only reduce the volume you do the subsequent workouts