Slipping

[oso]

My hands keep slipping off on my piece of wood. It's bothering me since i can't grip that well and hold anything without it slipping right out of my hands. Yes I do use Chalk, then i tried duct tape, don't have any grip tape, i tried putting alcohol on my hands to dry them, but i just keep slipping. what can i do to not slip???

[pdoire]

Use a lighter weight.

[oso]

though, i'd only be able to use about 25 pounds on it when i used to be able to use 60+. I can play around with the gym weights of two 25's and on this grip thing it's so moist i guess. i don't know i just don't feel like i'm getting a great workout using 25 pounds but i may be wrong?

[Mlstrass]

Grip tape, rough it up with sandpaper, textured paint........or get stronger!!!

[acorn]

I would use a big pipe clamp and hold the pipe portion. But thats just me. Would it not count that way?

- Aaron

[bunchofbananas]

I've always wondered if using lighter weight on slicker apparatus would produce the same effect as heavier weight on less slick and with chalk...

I guess if you have to squeeze to the same degree it can't be any different.

Any thoughts?

[oso]

This is something I've written on another board to see if they have any feedback towards it, it's the same general idea but in a hypothetical way - -

okay say you wanted to work primarily your grip off of farmers walks/holds with a 2" thick handle or something like that.

What would yield better results?

A heavy thick handled bar that has deep knurling (the knurling also not being a concern because of heavily callused hands) that would not have any slippage whatsoever but it would drop eventually out of the hands because the bar would be too heavy to hold for prolonged time

OR

A thick handled bar that has no knurling at all with a lighter weight that would drop because of the slipping out of the hands NOT because of how heavy it is.

Say you held both bars for 20 seconds long until they had to be dropped, which way would be best? (best as in getting stronger)

EDIT: Also, if you applied the same pressure to both bars, and both bars dropped at 20 seconds they would both be just about the same for strength gains wouldn't they?

[pdoire]

No, they wouldn't because friction is helping on the heavily knourled bar and it isn't as much on the non-knurled bar. You would be far stronger holding the same heavy weight on a non-knurled bar. The answer is train like the event you want to compete in or make progress in and in thickbar there are no knurled handles. Part of the "strength" is dealing with the slickness.

The #3 closers on the board would be far less if the gripper handles were slick with no knurling whatsoever.

[bunchofbananas]

But i think with that anology, atleast in my example, they would be weaker than number 3's to account for that... therefore making it just as hard to close as a knurled number three. However the thing that makes one hard is the poundage of the spring whereas the thing that makes the other one hard is the lack of grip on the non-knurled handles.