What if there was a shirt that was made for your training and even increased your strength for some of your elementary lifts?
Sounds good? Then let's put it into practice.
Our Lifters Grip Shirt was developed for precisely this reason. We wanted to create real added value for your training with our first product. A training shirt that can do more.
In case you can't imagine what a grip shirt is: Our Lifters Grip Shirt has a dynamic grip surface on the upper back and front shoulders. The grip offers the following added value:
- Prevents the bar from slipping during high/low bar squats
- Stops sliding on the bench during the bench press
- Enables optimum hold, even for frontsquats and cleans, but also for variations such as snatch balance
The grip surface makes it possible to maintain the optimum position during lifts and can even prevent injuries.
Advantages of the Lifters Grip Shirt for squats
Your Lifters Grip prevents the barbell from slipping on your back. This can happen due to
- Flat or blunt knurling of the center rod
- Incorrect position of the elbows due to fatigue
- Lots of sweat in warm temperatures
If the barbell moves over your back during squats, your performance will be reduced. If the barbell bar is too low on the back compared to the optimal placement, this shifts the center of gravity of the lifter and thus changes the biomechanics of the movement.
Not only will you be able to move less weight, but the risk of injury is also increased in this case.
Your Lifters Grip Shirt completely prevents this problem. The barbell does not slip an inch, even with "poorer" barbells without center knurling (knurling in the center of the barbell).
This means that by maintaining your optimal squat position and improving your strength output, you will experience improved progress.
Bench press advantage
Your Lifters Grip Shirt prevents slipping on the bench caused by
- "Worse" slippery benches
- A lot of sweat
An optimal bench setup where you are firmly and securely on the bench is essential for the bench press. By using the leg drive (pressure from the legs when pushing the barbell from the chest), you may also push yourself slightly off the bench.
Your Lifters Grip Shirt solves this problem. You will lie firmly on the bench and also be able to use the leg drive for even more power output.
As with the Backsquat, your Lifters Grip enables better form and reduces the risk of injury.
Advantages for frontsquats, cleans and snatch balance
In order to offer advantages for all lifters with our Lifters Grip Shirt, the frontrack position must of course not be missing. For this reason, the grip surface also extends to the front shoulder.
The grip surface offers you an optimal hold of the barbell for your front squats or catch cleans.
You can also take advantage of your Lifters Grip Shirt for Snatch Balance. The barbell is ideally supported on your back and stays exactly where it should be.
Conclusion
Your Lifters Grip Shirt offers you the perfect grip where you need it. With every squat variation, bench press, clean or even variations such as snatch balance, your Lifters Grip enables you to maintain the "perfect" form thanks to the optimum grip and thus achieve optimum power transfer. You will achieve improved progress and the improved grip of the barbell will also reduce the risk of injury.
As our Lifters Grip Shirt offers advantages for all lifting focuses, it also figuratively stands for our vision of uniting all lifters in one brand.
Click here for our TIMETOLIFT collection consisting of our grip shirts if you want to experience the benefits in your training. Happy Lifting.
You can find out exactly which barbell is right for you and your training focus in the article "The perfect barbell".