[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Building grip strength? (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 11/27/2009 12:34:40 PM EDT
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Just curious if anyone has any good exercises for building grip strength. I found some old grippers stored away and my strength seems to be mediocre. Unfortunately the grippers are so boring that I can't see using them consistently. |
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Dude, grippers are usually used as an auxiliary exercise. Here's an example. Say you want to improve your deadlift, but your grip is the weak point. Then grippers would be used to bring them up to strength.
ETA: Be careful with them, because you can actually injure yourself with them. Ask me how I know. |
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Just curious if anyone has any good exercises for building grip strength. I found some old grippers stored away and my strength seems to be mediocre. Unfortunately the grippers are so boring that I can't see using them consistently. Throw a towel over a pull up bar, twist it, grab with both hands and do pull ups. |
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Have you tried this guys workout?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsTKfUT-RQ |
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Rollups are cheap and easy. Can turn them into a shoulder workout as well. This is a rod like a clothing rod, with a rope tied to it, that you hang a weight from. Hold the rod out from your body and roll the rope up like a winch, lifting the weight. The higher you hold towards over your head the easier it will be on your shoulders, the farther out the harder. If your shoulders can't handle as much weight as your hands and forearms can, you prop the rod onto something like the backs of two chairs or the like. |
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lol, i saw that posted the other day. That's insane stuff. His weight to power ratio is incredible. |
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This thing is pretty cool and a great little wrist and forearm workout you can use at home or lots of places. powerball
edit, it looks like a toy but this thing will really give you a pump, its for rock climbers to help grip strength |
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Quoted: This thing is pretty cool and a great little wrist and forearm workout you can use at home or lots of places. powerball I don't have that, but I do have a firm gel ball about the size of a tennis ball. To be honest I am not sure how much the gel ball helps. It seems more relaxing than anything else. |
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Quoted: This thing is pretty cool and a great little wrist and forearm workout you can use at home or lots of places. powerball edit, it looks like a toy but this thing will really give you a pump, its for rock climbers to help grip strength Actually now that I take a second look at it it does look different than what I was thinking. |
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This thing is pretty cool and a great little wrist and forearm workout you can use at home or lots of places. powerball I don't have that, but I do have a firm gel ball about the size of a tennis ball. To be honest I am not sure how much the gel ball helps. It seems more relaxing than anything else. I have one of those in my car, the powerball is much better, trust me it is not a gimmick. Once you figure out how to use it right, it's pretty cool and its kind of fun to have other people try and use it and see how long they can hold on to it. |
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Quoted: Do pull-ups using your fingertips on door lintels (after making sure that it will support your weight). Also, let a barbell plate (the old fashioned steel type with a lip) hang from your fingertips then lift using only your fingers. I'm pretty sure fingertip pullups are going to be past me but I like the barbell plate idea. |
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Do pull-ups using your fingertips on door lintels (after making sure that it will support your weight). Also, let a barbell plate (the old fashioned steel type with a lip) hang from your fingertips then lift using only your fingers. I'm pretty sure fingertip pullups are going to be past me but I like the barbell plate idea. If you can't do a fingertip pullup (they are hard), then just hang by your fingertips as long as you can. |
| This is more finger strength than grip strength but they are related. |
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This thing is pretty cool and a great little wrist and forearm workout you can use at home or lots of places. powerball I don't have that, but I do have a firm gel ball about the size of a tennis ball. To be honest I am not sure how much the gel ball helps. It seems more relaxing than anything else. I have one of those in my car, the powerball is much better, trust me it is not a gimmick. Once you figure out how to use it right, it's pretty cool and its kind of fun to have other people try and use it and see how long they can hold on to it. yeah those dyna flex balls are awesome, and when done right they actually work your whole arm |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: This thing is pretty cool and a great little wrist and forearm workout you can use at home or lots of places. powerball I don't have that, but I do have a firm gel ball about the size of a tennis ball. To be honest I am not sure how much the gel ball helps. It seems more relaxing than anything else. I have one of those in my car, the powerball is much better, trust me it is not a gimmick. Once you figure out how to use it right, it's pretty cool and its kind of fun to have other people try and use it and see how long they can hold on to it. yeah those dyna flex balls are awesome, and when done right they actually work your whole arm I had a Dyna-Flex powerball, but it developed a bad vibration and their warranty only covers manufacturing defects. Get one from here http://www.powerballs.com/ They have a lifetime warranty, even if you drop it or wear it out. You will work your whole arm out, not just your forearm, wrist, & hands. Get one with the counter and it makes for good entertainment to see what RPM you can get out of it. |
 http://www.onlinefitness.com/product.cfm?pr=1445&ref=f ETA: Works great for guitar players who need to keep their fingers in shape to do bends and weird chords. |
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I used to work for a distributor of the LA Times when I was in high school. I assembled the stuffers for the Sun. and Thurs papers and on Sundays helped tie the papers for the 3000 plus circulation of this office. I could take a set of bathroom scales and squeeze over 300# and otherwise was no physical specimen. A friend of mine's father was a roofing contractor and he worked for his dad mostly loading roofs. He could pitch 80# sacks of rock over his head all day. Me, maybe a few and then some rest. Both of us were around 150#. Both my hands were pretty strong. I could grip with people who claimed they had good grips. Guys that could press way more than me could rarely hit 200# on the bathroom scales, let alone 300. |
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Quoted: LEFTY OR RIGHTY Are you asking me or do you mean some of the devices? I'm right-handed but I'm going to try to develop both equally. There doesn't seem to be very much difference between the two, except for my "pinching" power is stronger in my right from opening things. |
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Quoted: I used to work for a distributor of the LA Times when I was in high school. I assembled the stuffers for the Sun. and Thurs papers and on Sundays helped tie the papers for the 3000 plus circulation of this office. I could take a set of bathroom scales and squeeze over 300# and otherwise was no physical specimen. A friend of mine's father was a roofing contractor and he worked for his dad mostly loading roofs. He could pitch 80# sacks of rock over his head all day. Me, maybe a few and then some rest. Both of us were around 150#. Both my hands were pretty strong. I could grip with people who claimed they had good grips. Guys that could press way more than me could rarely hit 200# on the bathroom scales, let alone 300. Yep, the strongest grip I knew of was a friend of mine that worked construction. He never went to the gym a day in his life as far as I could tell, it was all from his work. |
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Quoted: Tie weight to para cord, tie cord to piece of closet rod, roll weight up and down, turn hands over and roll up and down again. repeat, Increase weight as you increase strength. Look like Popeye in 3 weeks. Sounds like you are describing roll-ups or roller machine. I havent done a homemade one of those, seems like it might be tough to stabilize, could probably give it a go though. I used to do those in a gym years ago, but haven't seen one in long time. Now its all just the newest machines. |
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Quoted: http://www.onlinefitness.com/images/productimages/240_HandFingerExerciser.JPG http://www.onlinefitness.com/product.cfm?pr=1445&ref=f ETA: Works great for guitar players who need to keep their fingers in shape to do bends and weird chords. Those look great for developing even the little fingers. That's one thing about the bendy-bar grippers they seem pretty limited as to what fingers they develop. |
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a foot and a half of two inch wide pvc pipe
piece of rope attatched to pipe carabiner attached to other end of rope some weight to attach to the rope. then you hold the pipe with your arms extended and roll up the rope around the pvc pipe then unroll it in a controled manner it's good for wrist and forearm strength 
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