The one we started with

Lifting Hook Grips

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A rubber-faced hook takes the bar off your fingers. A 5 mm neoprene cuff spreads what is left across the whole wrist. Everything that usually breaks - the buckle - is steel.

Colour — Black
Bundle
2

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Lifting Hook Grips — Stealth Black 2 pairs · $101.98

Vanta · Gym performance

Built for
every rep

For those who train with purpose. Your back has another three reps in it - your fingers do not. Vanta hooks move the load onto a steel-backed plate and a padded wrist cuff, so the set ends when you decide it does.

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A Vanta lifting hook shown on its own next to the same hook worn on a wrist
Steel buckle Not the plastic clip

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Close-up of a hand holding a loaded barbell while wearing a Vanta hook

The real limiter

Your grip quits
before your back does

On a heavy pull, the forearms are the smallest muscle in the chain and the first to give. The set ends early, the bar comes down, and the muscle you actually came to train never reached failure.

A hook moves that job somewhere else. The bar rests on a rubber-faced plate anchored to your wrist, and your fingers become a formality.

+2-4
reps on your last working set
0
chalk needed on rack pulls
5 mm
of neoprene between strap and bone
30 s
to put both of them on

Build

Four parts, none of them cheap

Every pair of hooks looks the same in a photo. The difference shows up in the four places they are allowed to fail.

Rubber-coated hook

1.57 in hook depth

The contact plate is wrapped in textured rubber, so the bar sits in the hook instead of rolling out of it. Your fingers stop doing the work.

5 mm neoprene cuff

5 mm padding

Thick enough to spread the load across the whole wrist. No hot spot under the strap on the twelfth rep.

Steel buckle

2.60 in plate width

A stamped steel loop, not a plastic clip. It is the part every cheap pair fails at first.

Full-wrap velcro

14.76 in strap length

A 14.76 in strap that closes one-handed, tightens mid-set and holds through chalk and sweat.

Technical drawing: hook depth 1.57 in, cuff height 3.15 in, strap 14.76 by 1.97 in, plate 2.60 in
Measurements
Hook depth
1.57 in
Cuff height
3.15 in
Strap
14.76 × 1.97 in
Plate width
2.60 in
Padding
5 mm neoprene
Sold as
One pair

How to wear

Thirty seconds, both wrists

  1. 01

    Slide your hand in

    Palm flat, hook facing down, fingers over the plate.
  2. 02

    Pull the strap

    One hand. Snug against the wrist bone, not over it.
  3. 03

    Close the velcro

    Full wrap. Press along the whole length, not just the tip.
  4. 04

    Set the hook

    Drop the hook behind the bar and close your fingers over it.
Four photos showing the strap being pulled, wrapped, closed and the hook set

FAQ

Before you buy

Still unsure? Write to us and a human answers, usually the same day.

The strap is 14.76 in long and closes anywhere along its length, so it fits roughly 5.5 to 9 in wrists. On the smaller end you will have excess strap folding over itself - it holds fine, it just looks bulky.

Finish the set
you started

$59.99 a pair. Thirty days to send them back if they are not what you hoped.

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