Deadlifts - What grip do you use?

When doing deadlifts, which grip do you use? Do you use the alternate grip with one palm facing you and the other facing away or the pronated grip with both palms facing you?

Last night was the first night I ever did deadlifts with the pronated grip with both palms facing me, and it is much, much, harder. I could only pull 75% of what I usually can do with the alternate grip. Plus, my forearms are killing me today because you have to work much harder on holding onto the bar. I am going to start doing my deadlifts with the pronated grip for awhile to try and improve my grip strength, so when I switch back to the alternate grip, I will be able to pull more.

i use overhand for deadlifts and dead rows. i have used underhand grip for dead rows but prefer over.

i think i will give pronated a shot on deadlifts. thanks for the idea vman.

I've always heard you should use the alternate grip, but i always use palms facing me...I think its just whatever your comfortable with.

Here are a few pics to illustrate it better :

Alternate Grip :

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Pronated Grip :

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I had always heard that you should use the alternate grip as well. However, the pronated grip is much, much harder and definitely helps with grip strength. I think that by doing deadlifts with the pronated grip, it will help to increase the regular deadlift because of an increase in grip strength.

Alternating grip.

I'm a big baby with a sucky grip.

My grip sucks too fitnessgirl. :)

What sucks for me is that I physically have the strength to keep pulling the weight but it starts to slip out of my hands because my grip isn't strong enough and my hands get sweaty as well. I recently purchased some weight lifting chalk which does help. However, my grip strength still needs to get better and I think that doing them with the pronated grip will help my grip strength increase. After doing deadlifts with the pronated grip last night, my forearms are killing me!!

I learned using a pronated grip, and since my concern has always been my back, the idea of doing it non-symmetrically seemed non-useful for me

I use pronated hook grip until it starts to slip and then switch to the locking grip. Pronated grip is a better forearm/grip workout and grip strength develops fast if you train it.

 The switch to the over/under locking grip is like using straps, it allows you to keep lifting when you've hit the limits of your grip strength but not the rest of the muscles in the pulling chain. Which is useful, you get to train the weakest link to the max, and then train the rest without being limited by your weakest link.

 Grip strength is pretty funny by the way - you only need to get above 50% of your 1RM for a maximal training stimulus, even when you'd need to cross 80-90% for almost any other exercise.

Pronated...mixed grip always felt funny to me.  I have a pair of cheapo Target brand weight lifting gloves that seems to help with my grip.  I also do my deadlifts first, therefore at my least sweatiest during my workout.

When deadlifting, I use the pronated (aka overhand) grip to the maximum weight that I can, then for sets with more weight I use the mixed (aka alternating) grip.  Definitely can lfit much more with the mixed grip.  I do 5 sets ramping the weight up each set (e.g., 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, and max weight) and find that I usually have to go to mixed grip for the last two sets.

I recently started using alternate grip and I can lift a lot more that way.  I have tiny lady hands so that's my excuse for not using pronated. (OK, a terrible excuse!)

So far only pronated grip.  I've heard that alternating grip can help you pull more, but I'm not that interested in PRs (yet). 

I recently bought a pair of Lynx grips and they really seem to help. I like them a lot! 

I tried gloves but they just seemed to bunch up at the base of my fingers and get in the way.   Plus they got all sweaty-- yuck!  I don't mind sweating in the gym, but gloves are not easy to clean/wash. 

Pronated grip.

another pronated grip here.  As an aside, I've been doing hanging leg raises and actually find these to be helping my grip out quite a bit.  Kind of develops quickly since I'm hanging 3 feet off the ground and afraid to fall down!

For grip strength, has anyone tried 3 or 2 finger pull ups? Palms facing outward. Just perform the motion normally, but only using 1st and 2nd finger or include the 3rd for extra assistance. You will definitely feel it in your forearms afterwards. Also, I do static holds at 90 degrees using said technique.

Deadlifts I use pronated grip, haven't tried any other way.

I use the mixed grip.  I started deadlifting with a pronated grip years ago, so it actually took me a while to get used to the mixed grip.

Ahh, the king of all exercises.

Alternated.