Roark Posted November 17, 2001 Share Posted November 17, 2001 Those of you interested in pinch gripping. Have you ever used a 2 x 4 or 6 piece of wood with an 'eye hook' screwed into it, fastened it to the lat machine cable, and performed various pinch movements with it? I plan to make one soon and try it, with 30" length for the 2 x 4 being adequate for using both hands, and, of course, pinching in the middle of the board for single hand movements. Has anyone tried this; is it beneficial? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuel Crusher Posted November 17, 2001 Share Posted November 17, 2001 It'd make a #### of a noise when you reached failure and lost your grip :0 Probably train you well if you were looking to do pullups when gripping rafters. Regards FC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 17, 2001 Share Posted November 17, 2001 This sounds like a great idea. It will enable very easy progressive loading (even micro loading), which is impossible when pinching plates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roark Posted November 18, 2001 Author Share Posted November 18, 2001 Finding a piece of landscaping wood in my garage, I made an attachment for the lat machine. The wood is that type used around the edge of a flower garden- rounded on opposite sides, but with two other sides flat and parallel with rough hewn sides, excellent, non slip surface, and the curved part fits the hand perfectly, unlike a 2 x 4. I drilled a hole from curved side to curved side, put an eye-bolt thru it, nutted it, and now it's ready for the S hood of the lat machine to fit ito it. For one hand gripping, I may have to file down the nutted side so the nut is recessed and not 'jabbing' into my palm (using a shorter eye-bolt, of course.) Haven't tried it yet but I am thinking it may be an aid to plate curls as well because when curling with the eye-hook forward, the force with want to tip away from the thumbs, Anyway, I won't have a chance to test it until I get a shorter eye-bolt. Patent is not pending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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