Well, that sums up the problems with these forums then. I'm not around here more than once or twice a day and don't go reading anyone's journals aside from TALO since we're doing the same diet. I took the grip failure as something reoccuring.. I don't go do backstories and read journals to help people lol, cause to be honest, I apparently know what works best for one person, bigtime.
I have nothing against getting stronger w/ the grip, BUT, if it's sapping away strength (which was the way I took it) vs. it being a one time issue, then yeah, I'd stand by my advice and say to work on your grip after you benefited from the heaviness.
Again, I personally don't use a double o grip because I don't feel the need. I do everything without straps except for barbell rows. Even rack deadlifts I go north of 550+ for 5-7 reps w/ an over under and chalk. Bearing all that in mind, that's why I don't really like posting a lot of specific advice on the forum which I've really gotten away from anyways. I don't know the whole story about where people are at, so my advice honestly is a shot in the dark.
Sometimes my advice would appear flawed, or not according to Joe Blow over at bb.com or the latest book off the press, but that's not to say its wrong. Instead of quoting scripture, I try to choose the path of least resistance. In other words, without going through a questionare via pm, if someone asks advice about something like Max-OT, I'm not about to go tell him to hop aboard what everyone else is doing and "sets of 5" your bench skyward vs. telling him the split is fine, just don't go more than two days in a row.
