How to Use Weight Lifting Straps and Its Benefits

People use weight lifting straps to enhance their grips for the purpose of heavy exercises like deadlifts and pull-ups. Weight lifting straps can be used on almost any exercise you do in the gym.

Weight lifting straps are actually a long strip of fabric (cotton, nylon or leather) with a loop on one side. You have to go through practices to use weight lifting straps properly.

The following tips will show you the way of how to use a weight lifting strap:

• Put your hand on the loops made by the strap.

• Around the wrist hold the strap tight by puling on the end of the strap.

• Wrap the strap around the bar or handle of the weight. But the strap must not overlap in a knot.

• Hold tightly the wrapped tail along with the bar of the weight within your hands grip.

• Then go for performing exercise as you normally do. This is useful for exercises like pull-ups, dead lifts and power lifting.

• When you keep the weights down, leave the handle or bar and then you can unwrap the end of the wrist wrap.

The benefits of weight lifting straps:

• This attaches the weight to your wrist.

• If you use it properly you are allowed to put all of your effort on the target muscle especially back muscles.

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