Grip Training

[Legion Kreinak2]

I was thinking of ordering the Captains Of Crush grip trainers that Thai had told me about. However, I'm a bit curious as to wether or not I can close the 100 lb. trainer gripper.

Should I order it and just squeeze as hard as I can each session (assuming I can't close it) and keep at that until I can close it? Will I even progress that way?

Or would I be better off finding ones with less resistance and training and increasing normally?

And if the latter, does anyone know where I can order one of these?

The reason I want to make my grip training a seperate cause is for Jiu-jitsu. Grappling requires a good grip to clamp on the holds and joint locks used against an opponent. Plus, every little bit of improvement helps, right?

 

[mrzap]

Bump I wasn't sure about the crush grippers myself.

I have been rolling up a plate attach by a rope to a hocket stick as my current grip training along with the exercise they get holding the bars for other exercises.

 

[Deepsquat]

from a personal standpoint the trainer was way too easy for me ...I gave it away. now the # 1 is quite a bit harder and the #2 ...well I am the only one I have met that can close it ...not that a lot can't ...just those that I know...In fact a guy from Oregon has taken them to the Arnold and had many of the pros try to close it and not one could!

If you want to be sure you get the right level...order the Ivanko supergripper! It is fully adjustable and you can make it as easy as the captains trainer to as hard as the #3-#4
Do a search on the web for it as the prices can very widely...I think I paid 26.95$$

 

[argent]

I kept my trainer for warm-ups leading to #1 then onto #2. Go get them from ironmind.com. They are 20 bucks there. I would go ahead and get the T and the #1 to start with. You can do alot of things with them both.

 

[Thaibox]

Even if you can't close a trainer yet, you should buy one just as incentive. You can do partials with it for now anyway. I'm sure you could do the trainer. If not, it will probably only take a couple weeks before you will. Anyway, after you get stronger and buy other ones, you can use it to warm up with. I bought a #4 just to hang on my wall. Sure its never going to be closed, but it pisses me off everytime I see it, and it also makes #3 seem weaker.

Like Deepsquat said, its suprising how weak people's grips are. Even the dudes that are hardcore in other areas.

The only thing I don't like about COCs is the weight increments. I closed #2 for 14 reps, but I still can't close #3. There should be a 1.5 and a 2.5.

LK2, check your pm later today bro

 

[Rich_S]

Here is a great link about the Ivanko Super Gripper:

http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sstamp/knives/ivanko_gripper.html

The guy on the page calculated all of the resistance settings. There are 119 increments between 45 lbs and 345 lbs as opposed to the Captains of Crush where you basically have 5 increments.

 

[Y_lifter]

I bought the ones I could squeeze fully 10 times a set
Then I moved up to a higher resistance when that got easy