Hand Strength Differences

[Guest indi]

i think its safe to say that most people perform better with grippers in their right hand, with the left lagging behind a little. just wondering if any of you train either hand with different volume to allow the lagging hand to catch up, or both the same.

*was bored so i figured id start a topic or something*

[Chris H Laing]

I'm actually interested in this too. I'm trying to bring my weak hand up to the same strength as my strong hand also.

For now I just do as many reps as i can on my hardest gripper with my weak hand, and then do the same with my strong, so they do the same amount of reps.

[Benedikt Farsmann]

I'm actually interested in this too. I'm trying to bring my weak hand up to the same strength as my strong hand also.

For now I just do as many reps as i can on my hardest gripper with my weak hand, and then do the same with my strong, so they do the same amount of reps.

Me too. Training that way won't bring your stronger hand to its maximum but I prefer my hands to be equally strong.

[eltorrente]

I'm actually interested in this too. I'm trying to bring my weak hand up to the same strength as my strong hand also.

For now I just do as many reps as i can on my hardest gripper with my weak hand, and then do the same with my strong, so they do the same amount of reps.

Yeah, this is what I've been doing also.

I've seen many people post their poundages/reps on various exercises, and their strong arm/hand has more weight lifted. I don't want to go down that road, myself. When I pinch grip, use grippers, dumbell exercises, or whatever - I go with my left hand first, and duplicate it with my right hand. I figure that, no matter what, I'm still increasing strength on both hands - just the right hand is going slower. I'm not going for any records, or specific numbers, necessarily - those will come with time - but I just don't like that my left is so much weaker than my right.

My left will probably never be exactly the same strength, but it'll be close at least.

[Pancake Sprawl]

i have a unique problem. my right hand's thumb webbing was sliced open, so now my right hand's width spread is much larger then my left hand's one. my right hand gets a better set with grippers, can grasp more easily a thickbar and blob, but is weak in pinch do to the increased ROM. the interesting thing is, even though i get a better grip with my right hand, my left hand is still stronger in everything but grippers (it was also stronger in grippers when i first got them though).

btw, i'm left handed.

[lloyd80s]

I can close a hard #3 with my right hand.................but only a #2 with my left

[Guest indi]

the interesting thing is, even though i get a better grip with my right hand, my left hand is still stronger in everything but grippers (it was also stronger in grippers when i first got them though).

btw, i'm left handed.

similar to myself. with my right hand, grippers are dominated compared to my left. but wen it comes to wide pinches, especially the blobette, the left hand reigns supreme. i just find the blobette to be VERY comfortable in the left hand, even whe its just getting a grip whilst its on the floor, whereas the right hand never feels the same. *shrugs*

[mbcx6pmw]

I'm left handed and find the right does marginally better on torsion grippers, but the left is better on the Vulcan and ISG. I always try to train both equally, they are close enough that I can use the same weight / gripper on everything, but if one gets more reps / a longer hold so be it.

[meelhama]

Torsion springs are wound such that when the gripper rests in the left hand, the handle sits in the fingers about a 1/2 away from the center line. For lack of a better term, when you hold a gripper in your right hand, it naturally posts-up better and deeper in your fingers. Using torsion grippers lefty is like setting a gripper 1/2 inch wider in your right hand.

[Magnus]

I do just the opposite. Instead of bringing my right down to to my left hand's level (on grippers, anyway, because my left is stronger at pinch and RT),

I force my left up to my right hand's level. I.e, if I do 6 reps on the #3 during with my right hand during a workout, and 3 reps with my left hand, I force

another 3 reps out to match my right hand. They're both getting 100%, then.

[gothrik]

I find on heavy grippers my left easily crushes my right hands max. However when I do rep days my left is burning really bad to do the rights "kinda hurts" level of reps. I am left handed.

My right pinches better.

I always train them equal reps.

[BroodingMoon]

Personally my LH is weaker across the board but I train both hands equally, usually lefty first.

However, the weaker you are the easier it is to progress because it gets exponentially harder, so the weaker hand will get more out of your training than the stronger one. So if you train both hands 100% then in the long run your hand strength will balance out. I choose not to do it that way out of preference because it is easier to keep track of your workouts if you keep both hands the same.

The day I close the #3 RH'd I want to close it LH'd as well.