and shoulder girdle. Without the ability to form a fist around your chosen training tool, you're more likely to overstress the larger joints up the chain like the elbow and shoulder.
While maximal tension can create PRs and boost your workout stats (along with your ego), high levels of mechanical tension can also cause an equally high level of soft tissue damage.
In the case of the false grip being used as a primary mechanism for movement, you exponentiate acute and chronic trauma to the elbow and surrounding tissues. The small forearm and wrist flexors - highly comprised of tendinous junctions with bone and muscle - are basically being torn to shreds secondary to your training.
Macro-tearing your tissues down multiple times a week is generally considered a bad thing. We can further limit this damage by simply ditching the false grip and wrapping your hand around the bar.
Train with the traditional grip until your elbows are supremely strong and healthy. Only then should you consider the false-grip alternative.
3. Pushing and Pulling With a Pronated or Supinated Grip
The supinated (hands facing the body) or pronated (hand facing away from the body) grips used for pushing and pulling are standard operating procedure, but if your elbows hurt, start using a neutral grip. That means your palms will be facing one another.
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This innocent rotation can enhance the way you move without the necessity of employing additional tactics in your activation and movement patterns that may take years to perfect.
The neutral grip allows a greater amount of shoulder joint centration along with decreasing the angle of the upper arm relative to the torso. Without torturing your with brain-numbing biomechanical analysis, the more centrally positioned we can place the shoulder, elbow, and wrist,