Grip Masters Manual, Just for fun - can you do this?"

[Parabellum]

I posted this on the training board and i though it would post it here too.

I bought a copy of the Grip Masters Manual by John Brookfield, I'm working my way to crushing a level 4 Captains of crush gripper.

There is a small section called "Just for fun - can you do this?"

It lists five challenges:
1. Break a key (house or car key) with your thumbs.
2. Break (not just bend) a 60 penny nail, spent 3 hours looking for these things.
3. Crack one walnut open with your bare hand, specifically thumb and index finger.
4. Crush an apple in flight, someone throws you an apple and you crush it as you catch it.
5. Make your forearm muscles dance without moving any other muscle in your body, I would like to see a video of this being done.


Thought this was an interesting challange. How many can you get through. I'm stuck on number 2. It took me a local hardware store and two Home Depots to find these, 16 cents a peice.

 

[Parabellum]

Here is a link to some exercises by the author of the book, on the training board Got Help added "the Just for fun section from John's first grip book.

 

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what is the book like? Have you read the mastery of hand strength? how do they compair?

 

[Liftbig]

i think itd be cool to be able to bust open cans of pop with your hands just by squeezing them, i dont know why i havent tried, i just think that would be cool

 

[Parabellum]

what is the book like? Have you read the mastery of hand strength? how do they compair?

I haven't ordered Mastery of hand Strength yet.
I did read The Grip Masters Manual and I thought it was a very informative book. John Brookfield writes about various exercies and describes how to do them and what muscle groups they target.

 

[Parabellum]

i think itd be cool to be able to bust open cans of pop with your hands just by squeezing them, i dont know why i havent tried, i just think that would be cool

I wouldntt mind trying this also, just remember to where thick gloves so the sharp can does not cut your hands to shreds.

At first Brookfield admitted that he thought this feat of strength could not be accomplished and subsequently proved himself wrong.

 

[Liftbig]

i read somewhere that it takes 600 lbs of pressure to bust a pop can. i dont know if thats true or not. maybe not with todays lighter pop cans, i remember when i was little and they were alot stronger, dammnit i had to crush those bastards for recycling, much harder then todays. im am going to try and bust a pop can sometime, and or work my hand strength up to be able to. then i will rule the world(maybe not, but it sure would be a hell of a good trick at parties )

 

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the number 4 captains of crush gripper is rated at 365lbs.....nearly no one can close this...yet many can crush full un opened cans of soda (me not included....the top bulges out but it wont split yet)

 

[Parabellum]

I'm still stuck at getting 60 penny nail to bend, it seems like it is startingto bend but when I look at it it's straing as an arrow. My mind playing tricks on me.

I've been poking around with strenghtening my lower arm strenght for about a week now and it seems to have already helped me out. I did a 425 lbs deadlift and not even opne did I feel my grip or my fingers slipping.

I also have a nasty little problem once in a while when I bensh heavy, my writsts tend to roll forward, I almost dropped 365 lbs on myself two weeks ago, scared teh shit out myself. I bench in a power rack and I set the pins just below my arch so if I get into trouble I have to flatten out a little and I'm ok, even with the rack it scared me, one time I was half way up with 330 and it just slipped out of my fingers and bam on the bars of the power rack.

 

[Jagermeister]

Parabellum if you got smooth, shiny 60 penny nails from Home depot, you aren't going to bend them

you have to start off with smaller nails and eventually work up to a 60d.

Start off with some 16 penny, then 20, then 2 20penny nails taped together, then 40d nails, then you might have a chance to bend a 60d nail.

if you stick with it, it will probly take you a year or 2 to bend a 60d.