🏋️♀️ Extended version of this interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hook-grip-in-103325375 🏋️♀️
Elite weightlifters use the hook grip. You may be surprised, however, that there is not a lot of research to justify this type of gripping. In this interview, Dustin Oranchuk walks us through his study investigating differences in the performance of the clean with and without the hook grip.
Dustin has a PhD in sports science and works as a full-time researcher at the University of Colorado. His research focuses on muscle physiology and mechanics, healthy aging, rehabilitation, neuromuscular fatigue, strength and conditioning, and optimizing research methodologies. The two papers we discuss in this interview come from his time at the Auckland University of Technology.
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Evidence Strong summary:
https://evidencestrong.com/hook-grip-is-better-but-why
Original research papers:
Oranchuk DJ, Drinkwater EJ, Lindsay RS, Helms ER, Harbour ET, Storey AG. Improvement of kinetic, kinematic, and qualitative performance variables of the power clean with the hook grip. International journal of sports physiology and performance. 2019 Mar 1;14(3):378-84.
https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijspp/14/3/article-p378.xml
Oranchuk DJ, Harbour ET, Lindsay RS, Storey AG, Drinkwater EJ. Improved power clean performance with the hook-grip is not due to altered force-time or horizontal bar-path characteristics. Journal of Sports Sciences. 2021 Oct 3:1-0.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02640414.2021.1986270
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