Grip Strength.

Someone mentioned "How can I improve my Grip strength?" Please share your ideas. Here are a list of thing that I do: Rock Climbing, Gymnastic Rings, Judo Gi training, Weight lifting and Heavy Grips http://www.heavygrips.com/ (These things are not your ordinary Big 5 grippers they range in lbs of force required to close from 100, 150, 200, 250, 300 and 350, I haven't even opened the 300 or 350 yet, I can only close the 250 about 3/4 of the way now. But when I 1st got them I couldn't even close the 200 more then once now I hit 7-10 times. I notice a huge difference now when I grab someones wrist. The other good brand of Heavy duty grips are called captains of crush but they are a little more pricey. Feel free to share.

I do grip training 2-3 times a week.

I'll do pullups with a gi wrapped around the bar, or dumbbell curls with the dumbbell hanging from a towel. Also do fingertip pushups and plate pinchers... Put two weights/plates facing each other and squeeze them together for at least a few seconds. I've worked my way up to pinching 2 35lb plates together, working on getting 45s. I also have a couple of buckets filled with sand, and I'll go for 5 minutes in the sand bucket, opening and closing my hands, making "tiger claws", digging, etc.

It makes a pretty phenomenal difference in my hand-fighting in judo and jiu-jitsu.

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Originally Posted by RichardC

I do grip training 2-3 times a week.

I'll do pullups with a gi wrapped around the bar, or dumbbell curls with the dumbbell hanging from a towel. Also do fingertip pushups and plate pinchers... Put two weights/plates facing each other and squeeze them together for at least a few seconds. I've worked my way up to pinching 2 35lb plates together, working on getting 45s. I also have a couple of buckets filled with sand, and I'll go for 5 minutes in the sand bucket, opening and closing my hands, making "tiger claws", digging, etc.

It makes a pretty phenomenal difference in my hand-fighting in judo and jiu-jitsu.

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Nice, I forgot about plate pinchers, and I like the sand buckets, old school. You gotta bust out the buckets filled with gravel next.

Get the book "Mastery of Hand Strength" by John Brookfield, amazing book.

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Originally Posted by Chris Herzog

Get the book "Mastery of Hand Strength" by John Brookfield, amazing book.

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On my way to the book store now, Thank you.