Reach muscular greatness with Optimo Thick Grips—the 2.25” silicone grips that use an anatomical design to take you to the zenith of your physical potential. The supportive wings relieve pressure on your wrists and joints while increasing your grip strength.

Transform everyday barbells, dumbbells, cable attachments and plate-loaded machines into kinesthetic thick bars that force you to use neglected muscles and create deep definition.

Optimo Thick Grips’ contoured shape supports your grip unlike any other product. 

The anatomical wing grip gives you increased surface area for weight distribution, reducing strain on your joints and enabling you to lift more with less discomfort. 

When lifting weights, your hands support a lot of weight on the bars, placing high pressure on a relatively small grip area. In many cases, this causes irritation by pinching the extremely sensitive ulnar nerve that runs near the base of the palm by the pinky. When you increase weight, the sensation only gets worse. But not anymore.

With Optimo Thick Grips, your hands stay neutral with the supportive wing cushions so you avoid imbalances and decrease strain on your fingers, wrists, elbows, and even shoulder joints!

Work out harder, not longer. 

These 2.25” grips send your muscles into overdrive by increasing the demand on your hands and arms to give you higher quality reps. It’s the fastest and easiest way to increase strength and muscle mass while reducing discomfort when lifting.

To get the same control that you’re used to on a thicker bar, you need to grip a lot harder. This additional force on your muscles targets your weak links that standard bars neglect.

Optimo Thick Grips force your muscles to engage stronger than when you do the same exercise with a standard bar, effectively “turning on” the surrounding muscles.

It’s all due to Sherrington's Law of Irradiation.

Experience it for yourself with instruction from Russian Fitness Trainer, Pavel Tsatsouline:

“Make a tight fist. Where do you feel the tension? Your forearm and biceps, right? Even tighter! White knuckles! Do you feel your shoulder and even chest flexing too? In reality, when the demand for force increases, other muscles jump in on the action. [...] Not by cheating, as some complement their barbell curls with a back swing, but by ‘cheering’.”

Often grip and forearm strength are neglected, leading to an early top out point. When you increase the thickness of a weight-training implement, the demand placed on your hands and arms increases significantly.

By working harder to grip the bar in the same exercises, you blast muscles that you typically overlook and consequently gain maximum, long-term strength. That’s why you can’t lift as much as you usually do when you start using Thick Grips—you’re finally engaging muscles that are smaller and weaker.

Those finer, hard-to-engage muscles have no choice but to climb on board as you experience, tricep dips, bench presses and more for the first time.

Increased contraction puts more strain on your joints and tendons, which is why Optimo Thick Grips have a patent pending "ergonomic wing" that gives you cushioned support for a safer, more comfortable grip.

None of the other thick grip products on the market give you the additional support needed in a maximum force environment. They claim to be ergonomically designed but are just a standard cylinder, not naturally adapting to the shape of your hands.

Optimo Grips are made of High Density Silicone, the toughest, impact-resistant silicone developed exclusively for Optimo.

The UV-resistant material has no fillers and uses medical-grade white oil as the only plasticizer to meet the highest purity standards.

Optimo Thick Grips were designed to fit the most common gym and home gym equipment. Their inside diameter is 1.1 inches (28 mm).

Most commonly, the grips can be used on barbells, dumbbells, plate loaded machines and cable attachments. They will not work on equipment with curved handles.

Before using Optimo Grips for the first time, get a feel for them in your hands. Test the right-handed grip in your right hand, so the winged area rests comfortably in your palm. The grips should feel comfortable when held correctly. 

Other grips on the market are interchangeable because there’s no specialized support for each hand. Each pair of Optimo Thick Grips has a customized Left and Right grip.

Our thick bar grips are designed mainly for pressing and pushing movements. However, you’ll see improvement across all kinds of upper body exercises when training with Optimo, even if it’s not an exercise you use Thick Grips on.

Typically you have to do more reps and sets to get noticeable enhancement, but with Thick Grips, you’ll immediately notice a major pump in your biceps and forearms.

Increasing your grip instantly adds an edge to your workout. You’ll struggle doing the same exercises because the thick grip makes your muscles work double time without increasing reps or sets. Workout the same but see quicker results.

Give your muscles a reason to build new tissue by making strategic changes to your training program.

Using Optimo Thick Grips on approved movements increases your natural grip strength muscles and supports your wrists. This training makes you stronger for your lift and pull exercises so you can lift more and grip longer without destroying your form.

Spare yourself from warts, pimples and other nasty bacteria growing on your hands from filthy gym equipment. Optimo Thick Grips create a barrier between your hands and the bar so you know exactly what you’re touching.

Plus, they’re washable so you can effortlessly disinfect them after each session.

Optimo Thick Grips are perfect for lifters with messed up joints. The neutral hand position (supported by the wing) forces your joints into alignment as all the muscle groups are engaged.

You spend countless hours on your health, fitness and physique. Meal prepping, protein supplements, soul-crushing workouts, two-a-days, diet changes, diet restrictions—there are always more ways to get bigger, better and faster. 

The path to reaching maximum potential isn’t for the faint of heart, but the feeling of breaking a PR, winning a competition or seeing new muscle definition is unmatched.

At Optimo Fitness Ergonomics, our goal is to help you reach your goals faster and safer. 

You can count on equipment that takes a 360° approach to fitness to give you workouts that are safer, more challenging and more impactful. 

Optimize your workouts. Get Optimo Thick Grips today.

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Pierre is an entrepreneur who lives in Toronto, Canada and is very passionate about weight lifting, especially bodybuilding and powerlifting. In 2016, during chest training, he experienced pinching in his palm due to supporting hundreds of pounds on the small surface area of the barbell. As someone who has been lifting for over 15 years, he noticed that many weight lifters complained about wrist discomfort and the bar digging into their hands. Pierre wanted to create a new concept that helps athletes train more ergonomically and innovatively with a winged shape design—the idea for Optimo was born.