Grip Training 101

There are a few people on this board that are very much into grip training, but not nearly enough. I think we all see just how important grip is when doing heavy DL's or even heavy shrugs. I recently began dedicating my Saturdays to extensive grip training and have fallen in love with it. It is not as simple as many people think yet training your grip correctly and with the same intensity and dedication as the rest of your body will yield fantastic results that you will see in many of your other lifts.

Below are some great links to quality articles, discussions, videos, and exercise descriptions that will hopefully help many of us out in our grip training. Please feel free to use this thread to ask questions and share any info about your grip training experience or add any links to info you have.

Great articles on grip training methods and exercises:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/par15.htm
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/par17.htm
http://www.dolfzine.com/page632.htm
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~keen0018/grip.htm

How to tear a deck of cards (thanks to Parabellum):

http://heavysports.com/emag/Clay_Edgin/cards.html

Grip training videos (scroll down to "Grip" section):

http://dieselcrew.com/Videos.html

COC Grippers (buy 'em, read about 'em):

http://www.ironmind.com/ironcms/opencms/IronMind/Main/captainsofcrush1.html



One of the mods are going to stick this (thanks guys!). I will also start a grip training log to track my progress.

actually 2 ppl have closed #4.

Tommy Heslep - 2004
Magnus Samuelsson - 2004
Mag is a Worlds Strongest Man competitor. Never heard of the other mofo

I wish had an extra day to focus completely on grip training. It's one of those things that I really want to start doing, but don't have the motivation to start

good post killah..its something that peopel should pay attention to i think..aside from deads and block pulls i do heavy shrugs and will always hold for as long as possible on the last rep..i shrug up to 525 so my grip gets hit pretty good

thanks for these links. I'm reaching a point where grip training will be useful to me.

I just do my Ivanko Supergripper , works well

Aeoleon said:

actually 2 ppl have closed #4.

Tommy Heslep - 2004
Magnus Samuelsson - 2004
Mag is a Worlds Strongest Man competitor. Never heard of the other mofo

Click to expand...

I believe that makes 4 then...

John Brookfield (years ago)
Some other guy...can't think of his name...closed it in 2003 I think. He is on the cover of one my my MILO mags.

B True

good post, I've been meaning to get me some coc's

Itrain grip. Need a strong handshake. Using the crushed to dust grippers, hand shake machine and th snowball. As far as grip strenght goes, Remember the saying: "specificity of training gets result in that one area" (me, circa 1994)

http://www.ironmind.com/ironcms/opencms/IronMind/GripTips/griptip.html

Here's a monthly article by John Brookfield off the Ironmind site. He offers training tips to keep your grip workouts "different" and productive. I think this is #32, so there's plenty in there to get a good variety of training. (There's a link at the bottom of the article which scrolls to each previous one in succession.)