Curved Finger Training And Parallel Holds

[Geralt]

Hey guys, I would like to share your thought on these two questions:

Recently I read an article on a forum about gripstrength. I read about someone who has a friend who is a rehad surgeon. This friends has, seen from his working experience, been training his handstrength with curved finger extensions. Training hands this way would greatly benefit building crushing handstrength more than training with conventional handgrippers. Maybe because you curl your fingers more this way? So it would more benificial to throw some thumbscrewbased excersises in

For more 'grasping' based movements. Anyone experience with this?

Second: I read on Mighty Joe's website that he did some parallel holds with heavy grippers in one trainingsession. I believe he did that with Paul Knight. In what way would that be benificial? I'm looking for some new excersices to train my CC set whith my #3.

Thanks guys.

Edited September 12, 2010 by Geralt

[Malice]

I don't know about your first question, sorry. As for parallel holds, I've been doing them for a little bit and I've found that they work pretty good for me. The reason I started doing them is because in WSH we use the Vulcan from a 20mm set and when I started working with that narrow of a set I was having trouble getting it in my hand correctly since my normal MMS set is a bit wider than 1". Once or twice a week I'll do 5-10 singles of just setting it to 20mm and holding it for around 5 seconds or so. It's really helped me a lot. You can do this with any set you want and I believe it'll help. It's kinda like an isometric I guess.

[Geralt]

Ok, well thanks, i'm going to incorporate them in my training!