DOMS in Fingers

[strengthstarter]

I feel as if I have reached a landmark in my deadlifting career. After overhanding 325# twice before switching to a alternating grip, I had doms in my finger muscles for the next few days. Awesome.

[Dastardly]

I think any male going through puberty has shared that experience.

[Patrick]

I am *completely* unsure of the context of the original poster's feat (325 DOH for a double is solid, for sure) so I might be way off base, but I just have to add... if you're working grip and you have persistent pain in your hands, watch the heck out!

The hand has a delicate biology and it's really easy to muck things up. DOMS is one thing -- we've all worked through it -- but tendon and joint trauma is a very real possibility when you're busting ass to build grip strength, and the damage takes a long time to undo.

If it turns out to be soreness and nothing more... good effing work!

[strengthstarter]

Yeah, just soreness, but it looks like I need to start actually working grip outside of deadlift. Time to review this forum.

[strengthstarter]

Man talk about options. There appear to be a million grip exercises and nowhere can I find how to train grip for deadlift. Should I just get a trainer gripper and start going at it?

[Carlos Daniel]

Man talk about options. There appear to be a million grip exercises and nowhere can I find how to train grip for deadlift. Should I just get a trainer gripper and start going at it?

People seem to recommend doing static holds for that, take a lighter weight than the one you usually deadlift, lift it and hold it at the top for a while. Not sure about the details though, meaning how many reps, sets, progression, etc...

[Leoric]

In rock climbing tendon strength in the fingers is extremely important. A lot of people work on this by doing static clings from a hangboard. This is basically a board with a bunch of slots, each of which has a different depth so that you can either hang from your distal knuckle or a full hand grip with all ranges in between. I don't know if it will make your grip stronger than doing that heavy of a deadlift, but it might help with doms in the fingers if it is from your tendons being stressed.

[Bronan the Barbarian]

The most basic first step I've heard of for deadlift-specific grip training is to just hold the last rep of your deadlift work set at the top for as long as you can. I think I read this on 70sbig. If after a couple of DL training sessions this isn't getting the job done, you could try adding a couple of singles with a max time hold at the top. I'm going to give this a try because I don't like that I pretty much have to switch to alternate grip when I go over 315 or so.