Muscle tips Lift 40 per cent moreSwitch your deadlift grip and boost your reps instantlyBy Joe Warner | January 2008 |
 Feet shoulder width apart, knees in line with feet, back straight.
Tense your abs and push up through your heels.
Grip the bar with an alternate grip. Changing your deadlift technique to use an 'alternate' rather than a standard grip can increase the amount of weight you can lift in a set by 40 per cent. In a paper presented to the US National Strength and Conditioning Association's annual conference, subjects who used a standard grip completed, on average, five reps of the exercise. When they switched to an alternate grip, with one palm facing the body and the other facing away from the body, they managed seven reps. The total lift for each set was increased from 656kg to 980kg.
Source Journal Of Strength And Conditioning Research
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