Grip strength exercises

[mr vicegrip]

How many of you out there work grip strength workouts into your routine?

Personally, I dont know a lot of people that do.

I was watching a doco on sky the other day and was inspired by a man called Dennis Rogers who is a GrandMaster Strongman in grip strength.

My god! he rips phone books in half,bends steel wrenches in half and rolls frying pans into a ball! Check him out on u tube.

Anyway, just interested to see who trains this way.Cheers.

[Pseudonym]

I fold my tuna cans in half. Does that count?!

Apart from the occasional reverse forearm curl, I don't really do much specifically for grip or forearms. Perhaps I should...

[BlueCollarLifter]

i used to load up a couple of dumbbells and see how long i can hold them up...after a few sets they would go numb..great way to get big forearms in a short time :grin:

[frogie2001]

reverse grip bicep curls. hammer curls, work well on foreamrs. also something that most male teenagers undertake as a past time :pfft:

[Mike Zero]

I do a bit of hand gripper work.

I just added in some direct thumb strength exercises, starting to have trouble holding on to my deadlift.

[blairandkelly]

bucket full of rice , put your fist into it and open/close fast as you can for 60 seconds has increased my grip stregnth a fair bit

[ngapuhi strong]

bucket full of rice , put your fist into it and open/close fast as you can for 60 seconds has increased my grip stregnth a fair bit

did you learn this one off a old chineese monk in his temple well training for karate :pfft: :pfft: \:D/

[big MAC]

My current favourite exercise is hanging off a 2inch chin up bar/axle for sets of about a minute. Will start adding weight soon.