Using lifting straps might help you lift heavier weights and feel like you have a better grip, but we don’t fully know why yet.

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Are Lifting Straps a Game Changer for Resistance Training or an Overrated Tool? An Exploratory Review of Current Evidence and Future Research Directions.

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2026 Mar 1

The study found that using lifting straps can help people lift heavier weights and feel like they have a better grip, especially during exercises like deadlifts — which is exactly what the claim says. It doesn’t fully explain why this happens, but that’s also admitted in the claim.

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Are Lifting Straps a Game Changer for Resistance Training or an Overrated Tool? An Exploratory Review of Current Evidence and Future Research Directions.

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DOI: 10.1123/ijspp.2025-0296

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Using straps might help you lift faster and feel less tired during deadlifts, so coaches might want to consider using them to help people train harder.

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When people use lifting straps for deadlifts, they feel more confident and stronger — even if they’re lifting the same weight as without straps.

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Straps might let you move the bar farther or with more effort during deadlifts, but we don’t know if that actually helps you get stronger or fitter.

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When people use straps but lift the same weight they normally lift without straps, they feel like it’s easier — but if they lift more weight because straps help, it feels just as hard as lifting without straps.

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Using lifting straps while doing deadlifts lets you lift the weight faster, but only if you use the same weight you’d lift without straps — if you increase the weight because straps help, you actually lift slower.

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