New Grip Tool Question

[gagleard]

I only have 10 lb dumbbells and just string on weights off of the opposite side. It's only 3 1/4 inches across. Is this a fine tool for grip or shuold I be loking for something wider like a bigger dumb or a rock?

[DAN PRAYDIS]

I only have 10 lb dumbbells and just string on weights off of the opposite side. It's only 3 1/4 inches across. Is this a fine tool for grip or shuold I be loking for something wider like a bigger dumb or a rock?

anythings a good start just look in gallery pics and vids to see stuff to make wood blocks work good to .just last week i put a starter in my ford and the old one turned on the side feels like a 40lb blob good luck

[superfeemiman]

Is this for blockweight training? Are you just grabbing the face side of the dumbell head without cutting it off?

If you are: John Brookfield recommends not to because he says you could risk injury from it (because your wrist is in a bind). I don't know if that's true, but it was in his book. A better alternative if you just have weight plates would be to put them in a loading pin and pinch them like a blockweight. You can do this by putting a big plate (5-20 lbs.) smooth-side out on each side and putting 2.5's in the middle of them to make the width large like a blockweight, try to make the width at least 4 inches and it resembles a blockweight greatly. You can increase weight by either putting larger plates on the side or replacing a 2.5 with a 5 or something.

[gagleard]

Since the head of the 10 is really small (3 1/4), I pinch it across the top. Its the same way Bender pinches his blobs to train his ring and pinky finger on his website:

http://www.geocities.com/ltgodfrey/three.html

But on mine I hang the extra weight off of the other side of the dumbbell. I'll try and get a pic in my gallery soon. Thanks for the responses.

[superfeemiman]

Since the head of the 10 is really small (3 1/4), I pinch it across the top. Its the same way Bender pinches his blobs to train his ring and pinky finger on his website:

http://www.geocities.com/ltgodfrey/three.html

But on mine I hang the extra weight off of the other side of the dumbbell. I'll try and get a pic in my gallery soon. Thanks for the responses.

So the rest of the dumbbell was attached? That's what I'm talking about then. I wasn't talking about where you grab, but whether or not the rest of the dumbbell is attached.

I haven't trained that way, all I know about it is that Brookfield does not recommend it.