Three fingered Grip?

and no I am not talking about what Dave Barron does

On coach mac's site he has a pic of a guy with the 35lb T&F weight using a 3 fingered grip. I was wondering if anyone has tried that for the 56 or 28 and did it help you any?

HA!

That works fine when you are holding with two hands.  I use a hook grip like the Oly lifters do.  Only way I can hold on.

 

Satch

brandell wrote: and no I am not talking about what Dave Barron does

Absolutely. No. Friggin. Respect. Didn't you hear what Mike Woody said about me??

I use 3-finger grip with the light weight, though usually only when the
handle is round. If its straight, then I usually go back to 4 fingers.

Seems to actually help my grip a little bit, as my pinky usually would
bring the weight off of my first knuckle when the handle is curved. By
moving my pinky to the inside it makes it for a more secure grip for me
anyway.

I have tried it with the 56, but never had the same grip problems as with
the 28.

I am going to try to go no glove this year, so will see where I stand with
this, without the glove, my guess is that I might go back to 4 fingers just
to have a little more flesh to spread out the blisters on

Cool coach thanks. I have really been working my grip from different angles this year. Maybe it will pay off!

Wayne,

nope not quite there. I have probably closed it about 3 times total, but
have found that the more I train with the grippers, the more my hands
just get beat up and the weaker I get. If I take a break for a week or so,
and go at it, I feel the strongest. Not sure what the deal is here - just
cant seem to get over that hump.

I read somewhere that usually if you can do a set of 20 reps on one, then
you are ready to move up, but this doesnt seem to be the case with me.
ARGH! Anyone have any hints/tips on these bastages?

Hapy,

  Most people just get too much volume on the grippers. Best advice I have heard for getting strong on the grippers is to train them once every day as follows: warm up the hands, take a couple of reps with a gripper you can reliably close as a build-up, finally you close the gripper that you can't close (use your other hand, legs, whatever to help you get it there) and then hold it closed as long as you can. That is it for the day.

  Incidentally, gripper closing (crushing strength) is pretty much meaningless for HG. In this sport you want supporting strength which is a very different thing. You'd be surprised at the number of 40'+ HWFD tossers that can't close an Ironmind #2. Holding on to a 56 that is going that far requires incredible grip strength, but not much crushing strength.

Any of you check out the Gripboard? It's at cyberpump.com. If you are interested in grip it's the place to go. I've been a member for almost a year, it's great. It's a very active message board with alot of cool videos and training advice. There are some strong dudes on there.