Grip strength is bad!!!

[al420]

If you want stronger grip on deadlifts then do deadlifts without straps. What kind of grip are you using? Double over hand, reverse grip, hook grip? You can do some static stuff to help but grippers are really only going to help your crushing grip.

Exactly. I think doing static holds on deads for max effort helps with grip for deads. I remember Scotsman stating somthing similiar.

Straps are ok IMO. If you're not a powerlifter (which I am) then using them in liu of a mixed grip can prevent bicep injuries whent he weigh gets heavy. I only use straps for rack pulls, and I rack pull 150-200lbs more than I dead.

I have been told and totally agree that closing gripper only help with closing grippers.

 

[trauck1506]

Yeah I'm right handed, and I guess I'll just lighten up the deads and do more of them which I hate to do. It sucks that deads used to be my best and now they are 2nd.
Thanks for the replies!

 

[timtim]

farmers walk.

 

[trauck1506]

Can't really do the farmers walk right now because of where I'm working out at. I could definitely tell that those short amount of deads really worked my forearms because today they are actually kinda sore. Today I didn't do them though because another guy was on the only real squat rack at the gym, at least this time he was doing squats and not like the idiots yesterday using it for dumbbell curls for 40 min. Still got in the squats though thank god.

 

[b fold the truth]

The grippers can help, but don't kill yourself by getting a super strong one. I use my lighter ones for timed holds mostly, I think it has the best carry over to deads and farmers walk.

But I've never lost a deadlift due to grip either, and I've nearly pulled 770 now. I've done a partial with 880 without straps too. In the past I used to do Martial Arts and spent hours and years using a bo staff which helped, I have long fingers, and for a couple years my ONLY bar in my home gym was a 2" bar.

 

[trauck1506]

Well I guess I'll get a pair after I get out of NY and my hands are pretty small which sucks. I probably couldn't do a hook grip if I wanted to.

 

[binö]

Well I guess I'll get a pair after I get out of NY and my hands are pretty small which sucks. I probably couldn't do a hook grip if I wanted to.

this is what has helped me, though it tears the fug outta your hands.
with two fingers on the smooth and two on the rough, i bunch my upper hand tissue (right below were the finger leaves the hand) below the bar...so the bar kinda sits on the skin roll.
does that make sense? if i don't do this the bar slips.
pulled quite a bit like this

 

[the_alcatraz]

I'm just curious, because I read a lot of media hype when the strongman grippers first came out....they claimed that if you can close the #3 gripper, you can crush most hands, if you close the #2 gripper, you will get an extremely powerful grip...etc....do these grippers make such a massive difference in getting a much stronger handshake? we had a top level executive talk about them as work for some odd reason lol

 

[bblazer]

I would have to say, yes. The main action of them is a crush style of grip which is different than grabbing a bar - you don't crush a bar. However, a lot of the same muscles are used for a bar grip, so the closest approximation is to close an hold these grippers.

B-

 

[the_alcatraz]

I would have to say, yes. The main action of them is a crush style of grip which is different than grabbing a bar - you don't crush a bar. However, a lot of the same muscles are used for a bar grip, so the closest approximation is to close an hold these grippers.

B-

so technically, if I used those grippers for a few months, my hand shake will be crushing...lol I like the sound of that