Thread: Grip

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Static holds with dumb bells worked for me.

I just did a grip workout yesterday. I was pretty frustrated.

I have a question. For those of you who have had lousy grip strength and then later trained for it, how long did it take for you to make your grip stronger?

Originally Posted by AKIRA

I just did a grip workout yesterday. I was pretty frustrated.

I have a question. For those of you who have had lousy grip strength and then later trained for it, how long did it take for you to make your grip stronger?

I started noticing stronger grip within a couple weeks, which was suprisingly fast.

Originally Posted by AKIRA

I just did a grip workout yesterday. I was pretty frustrated.

I have a question. For those of you who have had lousy grip strength and then later trained for it, how long did it take for you to make your grip stronger?

It was just like anything else for me - I've had to work my way up over a long, long time. I don't consider myself to have a monster grip by any means, but I'm now able to pick up and walk with 150 pounds DBs for a short while, do laps around a room with 120 pound DBs and do a double overhand deadlift (not snatch grip or anything fancy, just plain old DOH) with 380. Oh, and when I squeeze my twenty-year-old brother's wrist, I can cut off the blood flow and make him get on his knees. I guess that's pretty cool, too. Heh, heh, heh...

pinch grip two plates together
hang from a chin up bar from one hand (for time)
farmer walks (as mentioned above)
towel pullups
train with thinker bars
take up bouldering (climbers have awesome forearm and finger strength)

Originally Posted by fufu

I started noticing stronger grip within a couple weeks, which was suprisingly fast.

Did your forearms get bigger or get more defined?

Chinups and pullups have done wonders for my grip strength. As have deadlifts without the alternate grip.

Originally Posted by AKIRA

Did your forearms get bigger or get more defined?

Well it took longer, but I did see some more size/definition after a couple months.

Originally Posted by Bakerboy

pinch grip two plates together
hang from a chin up bar from one hand (for time)
farmer walks (as mentioned above)
towel pullups
train with thinker bars
take up bouldering (climbers have awesome forearm and finger strength)

I agree, rock climbing and such will get you great forearm strength. Experienced rock climbers have insane finger strength.

With all that said and true, I recently ordered a pair of strength grippers from:
http://www.heavygrips.com/
I have been using them for two weeks, 3x a week for about 5 min, totally seporate from my other workouts, and I am seeing fantastic strength results!
I got the 150lb and the 200 lb. At first I could only close the 150 lb in my left hand twice and my right once. Just in two weeks I can close it 5x in my left and 3 on my right, and can now close the 200lb once with both hands.
They take a little getting used to, but I think they are excellent, and are aiding my pullup/chinup rope work a TON. Not a bad buy at all IMHO.

Work on closing this.

http://www6.mailordercentral.com/iro...sp?number=1272

Farmer's walks and towel chinups/rows are a staple in my programs for quite a while now. Deadlifting is great of course too. I use a double overhand grip up until it would fail me and then switch to alternating.

Originally Posted by Gazhole

Chinups and pullups have done wonders for my grip strength. As have deadlifts without the alternate grip.

true for me too

Originally Posted by CowPimp

Farmer's walks and towel chinups/rows are a staple in my programs for quite a while now. Deadlifting is great of course too. I use a double overhand grip up until it would fail me and then switch to alternating.

How long was it a staple in your program that you started to notice lifting heavy shit wasnt as hard?

Originally Posted by AKIRA

How long was it a staple in your program that you started to notice lifting heavy shit wasnt as hard?

Last time I pulled 425, which was a few months ago, I sort of half assed the lockout because my grip was done. I probably wouldn't have been given green lights in a competition. The other day I pulled 430 and held that lockout for several seconds. It has also allowed me to break records on Romanian deadlifts (These also help my grip), which are a key accessory exercise for getting a stronger deadlift.

I had been getting stuck on the floor recently because I couldn't grip hard enough to transfer all of the force generated into upward movement when linked to the bar. Between speed deadlifts and grip work I got moving much better right off the floor.