You missed the lift. Not because your back was weak. Not because your hamstrings gave out. You missed it because your hands opened up. In powerlifting, your grip is the bottleneck. If your posterior chain can pull 500 lbs but your hands can only hold 400 lbs, you are leaving 100 lbs of gains on the floor. But here is the trap I fell into: I thought the solution was just "more volume." I hammered my grip every day until I developed tendonitis so bad I couldn't turn a doorknob. I learned the hard way that tendons don't recover like muscles. They have poor blood flow and heal slowly. If you try to "push through" tendon pain, you don't get stronger, you get sidelined. This is the revised Wayne Outlaw Method : a system for bulletproof grip that respects the biology of your tendons. Phase 1: The "Tendon Tax" (Strategic Deload) The Mistake: Treating your forearms like biceps. The Fix: Understanding Overload Rest. Muscles recover in 48 hours. Tendon...