philthy Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 Ok I started gripping back in january with a ISG i could rep it at 107 and when my hands were completelly fresh i could barely close it at 160. I was using the ISG like once a week(i was getting like a lot of tendon pain from it putting pressure directly on the tendon). The most I had closed it at was 185, but i could rep it for atleast 10-12 reps at 160. So i bought heavy grips(cause my hands aren't that big) 100, 150, 250 and 300. I wanted the 200 also but they were out. So today i attempted the 250 after doing 20 reps and a few over crushes with the 150 the best one i got the 250 to like 1/8" with my right hand, with my left just less than a half inch. Usually i do a couple negatives per hand but today i just wanted to try to go for it. I'm now training twice a week mostly grippers, with less isg(since it bothers my hand), I'm thinking about buying the hg200 from a different store . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAN PRAYDIS Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 there is a hg 200 and 250 in the for sale part of the grip board check it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted March 29, 2005 Author Share Posted March 29, 2005 there is a hg 200 and 250 in the for sale part of the grip board check it out ← thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted April 1, 2005 Author Share Posted April 1, 2005 Did back and biceps at the gym today.. i have been feeling pretty weak today since i haven't gotten much sleep the last few days due to being really busy... nothing great to talk about but my hands and forarms are pretty burnt so i did some contrast baths, maybe i think i'm gonna wait for the hg200 to come in before doing another gripper day... it should be any day now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted April 4, 2005 Author Share Posted April 4, 2005 Tonight i decided I couldn't wait any longer for the hg200 to come and that i should just do some gripper work tonight. 10x hg100 L and R 20x hg150 L and R Due to matburn on my hand from brazilian jiu jitsu i haven't been able to do contrast baths lately and my hands have felt pretty sore/weak today Negatives 3x HG250 L and R Then i put my hg150 on a string and put winter gloves on 2 sets 8 x L and R The gloves and the string made the hg150 much tougher some of the reps i didn't get complete metal to metal contact because it pinched some fabric from the gloves. Once the matburn heals (right on a finger joint), i'm going to do contrast baths and hopefully by then my hg200 will arrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted April 16, 2005 Author Share Posted April 16, 2005 (edited) 5/14 I did like a light routine of just OCing the HG150 and placing my hands really high on it to get bad leverage and doing reps... just waiting for my hg200 to showup. Then i did 4 negatives per hand with the HG250 5/15 I was having a really shitty day because of some bitch so instead of going out and hooking up, i was home alone.... so anyway i was really pissed so i grabbed my HG250 and furiously squeezed it with my right hand... and to my surprise it just kept getting closer and closer and I closed it! It wasn't the best close but it was closed. I waited about a minute then tried again i couldn't get it this time. I tried with my left hand and i didn't even come close, my left hand was kind of sore in the thumb from the training the day before. I cant wait till the hg200 comes so i can (hopefully) start doing some reps on that, so hopefully i can get consistant with the 250 then start doing reps with it. OH btw the reason my i didn't get the 200 yet was because my xgf who said she bought it right before we brokeup(birthday present) didn't. So i ordered it on like tuesday. Edited April 16, 2005 by philthy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigT Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 congrats the HG 300 better look out now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 a close is a close buddy. good work on owning that son of a gun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted April 17, 2005 Author Share Posted April 17, 2005 Thanks for the support guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted April 19, 2005 Author Share Posted April 19, 2005 I just got my hg200, today gave it a crush after opening the package was too excited to wait lol.. So i warmed up : 2 sets 10 x hg150 each hand 1 set 6 x hg200 each hand 1 set 10 x hg200 right 1 set 6 x hg200 left 1 set 5 x hg200 right 1 set 4 x hg200 left 2 negative with the hg250 in each hand I was feeling weak today, but my forarms feel like they got a nice workout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted April 20, 2005 Author Share Posted April 20, 2005 PIcked up a pony clamp today at home depot for like $2.25 I did a few sets of reps with that, it was pretty tough for me, it definitely exposes the weakness in my thumb but atleast now i have another way to work my thumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted May 9, 2005 Author Share Posted May 9, 2005 I haven't posted in a while, i've still been training and i've added a pony clamp to my routine. just nothing special to talk about lately... until today i've felt overtrained for the last couple weeks. Although tonight i was feeling good I was about to eat an apple so before eating it i was going to dig my fingers into it and rip it in half, but i felt like i could crush it so i went for it. And i crushed the apple, it was a big golden delivious so i only basically crushed half of the apple but then i realized that tthe apple looked less crispy/softer than usual so that's probably why i could crush it lol. Anyway about an hour later i got my hand dynamometer out to test my grip, i got 150 on it, my previous best was 130.. The dynamometer is a little out of calibration... a while back i weighed a 25lb dumbell on a string with it and it said it waid 13lbs.... Anyway i'm please with my improvement in a few weeks. I'm gonna keep training hard and hopefully next time i talk about crushing an apple it will be a legit/hard apple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted July 27, 2005 Author Share Posted July 27, 2005 It's been a long time since i posted... anyway. Yesterday i closed the hg250 for about 15 singles, one overcrush on it, and almost repped it twice. i came within 2-3 mm of closing it with my left hand. I'm waiting to get my hg300 back from a friend so i can try some negatives and mess around with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdoire Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 Nice job, do you actually have a routine that you follow? Maybe you could post it and we could possibly give some advice or pointers to help you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted July 28, 2005 Author Share Posted July 28, 2005 Nice job, do you actually have a routine that you follow? Maybe you could post it and we could possibly give some advice or pointers to help you! ← I for a while i would do : warmup set (like hg100 or hg150) hg200 to failure (like 14-18 reps per hand) hg200 to failure (like 6-12 reps) hg200 overcrush(1 per hand) 2-3 hg250 attempts 2-3 hg250 negatives hg150 hanging on a string just kinda grabbing and closing it maybe a 3-8 minute break in between each. For next time (in like 2-3 days) I was thinking of doing: a warmup set 4 or 5 sets of hg250 to failure/singles (breaks in between) hg300 attempt 2 hg300 negatives hg200 to failure hg150 hanging on a string Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted August 9, 2005 Author Share Posted August 9, 2005 Yesterday I did warmups then: R: 1 set 2 hg250 closes, 2 almost closes 5 HG250 Singles with a couple minutes between hg200 set until failure L: Attempted to close the HG250 4 times, 3 HG250 negatives. HG200 set to failure Today I did shoulders and biceps today at the gym... only notable thing is I did a set of 8 reps with 60lb dumbells for concentration curls. I've never been able to bang out a set of the 60s before. I'm still waiting to get my hg300 back I should see my friend tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted August 12, 2005 Author Share Posted August 12, 2005 yesterday i saw there was a can of budweiser extra in the fridge so i decided i'd give it a little squeeze... I didn't think anything would happen, I put a hole in the side of the can from squeezing and decided I should stop and try this some other time with gloves. Seems like pretty soon i'll pop my first can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 I've been training about once every 4 or 5 days, nothing spectacular to speak of, yesterday I happened to be having a bad day so i focused that energy/anger at my gripper, with my right hand i closed and overcrushed my hg250 for about 30 seconds with my left hand i got it about 2 mm to close. 2 days ago i closed the hg250 6 times and almost got it closed 4 times with my right hand, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted September 12, 2005 Author Share Posted September 12, 2005 my school is having hand grip testing next monday so i'm kinda psyched about it to see how i do on their dynamometer compared to mine. So i figure i will train hard this tuesday night or wednesday and not do anything between then and monday so i'll be fresh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted September 19, 2005 Author Share Posted September 19, 2005 (edited) i did the grip test thing at school today, i got 67kg with my right and 58kg with my left. It was early in the morning, they had a spring dynamometer similar to the one i have. The person testing me accused me of cheating the first time i did it with my right hand, because they looked away for a second, the second time when i got 66kg while they were looking right at me they were surprised.... I guess not a lot of people have gotten decent scores there today. I did worse than i thought I would... I was hoping they would have a jamar style dyno so i could see what that is like. Edited September 19, 2005 by philthy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuTCH Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Nice one Philthy! you showed them who's boss! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdoire Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 You're a dyno...mometer!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted September 19, 2005 Author Share Posted September 19, 2005 Thanks guys So after I got home i started doing some grippers, so far today i've done hg150 x 10 R and L R 3 single hg300 attempts (best was maybe a hair better than parallel) L 5 single hg250 attempts (3 of them were close) R 5 x hg250 reps R 15 x hg200 reps R 3 neg attempts(cant even close it with 2 hands) hg300 L 4 x hg250 rep/attempts L 12 x hg200 reps L 4 sm neg hg250 Since that workout i've just been doing hg250 singles with my right hand and hg200 singles with my left 8 each so far, i want to get to like 15+ before the day is over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted September 26, 2005 Author Share Posted September 26, 2005 A few days ago i did a PR with the hg250 of 9 reps, I went to a wedding and was busy the last 2 days so i didn't do anything... just get trashed at the open bar so today i get home and try my hg250 to my surprised it felt really easy, so i did a 30 second overcrush... about 10 minutes later i did another 2 15 second overcrushes (with about 5 minutes between them) after the second one i decided to immediately go for reps, and i got 14reps a new PR!! I have to say i'm very surprised at my results today. With my left hand i tried it and came close to closing it like 3-4mm or so but i just couldn't get it, which is pretty typical of my left hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philthy Posted October 5, 2005 Author Share Posted October 5, 2005 Yesterday I brought my new heavy handles (2" diameter) to the gym and finally worked out with them. I did wrist curls with them 2 sets 10 x 15lbs R&L Wrist twists Inside to out 2 sets 10 x 15lbs R&L Outside to in 2 sets 10 x 15lbs R&L I took the weight off and hooked it up to a pulley 2 sets 5 x 100lbs R&L I put 2 45lbs plates(couldn't fit any more plates i need to buy/make a loading pin for it) on it and did a 1 hand deadlift and just held it 3 x hold to failure R&L Did 30grams of protein when i got home. Later at night I went back to the gym did leg exercises: 5 sets squats, 2 sets extensions, 2 sets curls. Then did 40 minutes of cardio. When I came home I did contrast baths and 60grams of protein Today my forarms are pretty sore, much sorer than they've been in a long time just from gripping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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