DEVELOPING GRIP STRENGTH

Developing Grip Strength

Here you're going to learn how developing grip strength can specifically aid your performance in whatever sport you do. My background is in highlan games shot putt and discus throwing where grip strength and developing grip strength is of the utmost important. I have played sport in one form or another for the past 23 years and along the way realized how important it is to develop a strong powerful grip.

Imagine being able to hold onto anything with your strong, vise like hands, be it your opponent in martial arts, your opponent in football, your golf club, the wall your scaling in climbing or anything you simply don' want to let go of fast.

There are many superb devices on the market for training your grip, but there are just as many or more that you can make for yourself with things you find around your home, garden or can buy cheaply enough at your local hardware store.

When anyone mentions 'develop grip strength', the first thing that comes to mind is the sport grippers that can be bought for a dollar or two. Fine if you want to train to open and close something 100 times. They may be good place for someone with a below average grip, but for serious strength of the hand they are near useless when training for power but may have uses for rehab after an injury. The grippers that should become part of your arsenal of equipment are the metal kind that can take anywhere from 80lb to 350lb of force to close. Grippers are great but only make up a part of the training required to develop well rounded strong hands.

Second in my opinion for hand development would be pinch gripping. Imagine taking hold of a brick between your thumb and fingers, the heavier and wider the object you're trying to grip the harder it will be, but be careful with pinch gripping as you can seriously damage your thumb if you over do it. I'm always looking for something to pinch grip barbell plates, bricks, big pieces of wood, thick metal bar, the list is endless........................ always looking for something and trying to work out if I can lift it or not. Also in the pinch grip category and an old secret of old time strong men is the thick barbell or dumbbell. Just think, in real life sport, how often is the thing you're trying to get hold of got a perfectly round surface just like a barbell? Exactly, it hasn't! This is where thick bars come in useful. To buy a thick bar would cost you a small fortune, just scan the web and look for a thick bar, they can set you back anywhere upto $600.



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