Improving Deadlift Grip

Chalk helps alot if you have access to it, if you don't you'll just have to strenghen your grip, keep deadlifting and throw some assistance work in there, i found that one armed dumbell rows helped my grip alot, sets of 20 with the heaviest weight i could handle. Hope that helps:)

Other people with more experience and knowledge will say if I'm corrcet or not, but I thought that it was the forearm strength that affected the grip in the deadlift.
I struggle with my grip as well in my left hand, but was told by my trainer that it was the forearm that was causing the weak grip, the only one where I find it genuinely hurts my hand is when I'm using the hex bar, the grip sections are really rough and tear my hands to pieces!!

Maybe also ask the question in the gaining weight section, as a lot of the lurkers in there lift heavy weights.

My weedy grip was really holding back my deadlifts, so my trainer got some hooks for me to use, which are great. I now do a mixture of lifting without the hooks, in order to improve my grip strength, and with them, which has enabled me to steadily increase the weight again. I know some people will disapprove, but if it's a choice between being stalled for ages on deadlifts while you improve your grip, on the one hand, or improving both, on the other, it seems like a no-brainier to me.

Good luck!

Just hang in there. Literally. The more you train grip, the stronger it becomes. Do dead hangs with the weighted bar until failure ie you cannot hold on any more. Load the bar to 50% of your 1RM and hold until you just have to put it down. Or hang off a pull up bar and just dangle.

As for gloves, chalk, mixed grip etc - I would personally avoid using aids until you're approaching double bodyweight deads. I am pushing double BW and still do standard grip.

I don't really have callouses either - the trick is to work out how the bar will sit once you're fully holding the weight in your hands and make your initial grip such that the bar is already in its final position. (It's a trick I learnt from climbing to minimise damaging your hands.)

PS chalk will only improve friction and not strength or endurance of your forearm muscles which I suspect is where the weakness is.

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I ditched the gloves and my grip strength seemed to double if not triple, but caluses can get pretty bad.

do farmer walks, heavy shrugs, dead hangs as someone mentioned, if your doing curls or whatever grip the weights as hard as you can. the more you work grip the better it gets

if your going to use chalk, gloves or mixed grip thats fine, you shouldnt let grip strength stall you on anything, even use straps if you have to. just work grip in other ways if you do this to keep it up to par

Happens to me when I DL heavier than the usual - calluses gets in the middle and it gets uncomfortable + I loose grip.
You DL heavier than the usual or it just happens every time?

Always have pads in my sport bag which helps me out when it happens!

Please keep in mind, regardless of what anyone says, straps exist for a reason. I do not use them for my warm up or high rep sets, but do use them on my 1RM sets and such. If you are having grip issues do not be afraid to implement straps, the primary purpose for doing dead lifts is to strengthen your back, core, hamstrings, etc.(unless you are lifting with the intention of competing, but even some of the best power lifters train with straps), I would not sacrifice a back work out for the pride of saying I don't use straps.

Just hang in there. Literally. The more you train grip, the stronger it becomes. Do dead hangs with the weighted bar until failure ie you cannot hold on any more. Load the bar to 50% of your 1RM and hold until you just have to put it down. Or hang off a pull up bar and just dangle.

As for gloves, chalk, mixed grip etc - I would personally avoid using aids until you're approaching double bodyweight deads. I am pushing double BW and still do standard grip.

I don't really have callouses either - the trick is to work out how the bar will sit once you're fully holding the weight in your hands and make your initial grip such that the bar is already in its final position. (It's a trick I learnt from climbing to minimise damaging your hands.)

PS chalk will only improve friction and not strength or endurance of your forearm muscles which I suspect is where the weakness is.

I agree with my friend here. Just keep doing the dead lifts and your grip will come. chalk will only increase friction, that's it.

i just thought of another exercise that will help, use a wrist roller. i used these when i played hockey to improve my wrist shot

Building up calluses really helped my grip.

Heavy shrugs and BOR are also helpful.

Being a female your grip will take time to buildup. You can use weight lifting straps until you buildup your grip. I used them when I was dead lifting heavey back when I was young. http://www.amazon.com/Neoprene-Padded-Weight-Lifting-Straps/dp/B00DCGO6LS/ie=UTF8?&keywords=Lifting+Straps&gclid=CIvnn7Cqi8ACFa5AMgodrxwA6w

I think part of my problem could be a bit of carpal tunnel too. Sometimes I get the carpal tunnely feeling even when I'm gripping my steering wheel. Hopefully these exercises will help.

Hm. I'd rest until that feeling goes away. Or at least make sure you warm up the wrist joints by making circles with your hands while keeping the forearms still and then also flapping the hands back and forth like you're playing the bongos.

TBH sounds like you've damaged the wrists or something and deadlifts are just highlighting the problem. Do you use a wrist rest when typing on a keyboard or using a mouse? That could help, too.

As for gloves, chalk, mixed grip etc - I would personally avoid using aids until you're approaching double bodyweight deads. I am pushing double BW and still do standard grip.

I don't see why? If someone can lift more with mixed grip, why not just do that?