macaz Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Has anyone noticed that for every pound a gripper is over your 1 rep max (1RM) you will be off about 1mm? I am in the 145# RGC range and am about 1cm off my 155# #3. When I could close a 140# gripper I was off of my 143# gripper by about 3mm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malice Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Interesting observation Rich. I've never really looked at it but I will now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khfm865 Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Strange that simply as the force required to close a tsg is not linear thus the relationship should be skewed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macaz Posted September 10, 2011 Author Share Posted September 10, 2011 Strange that simply as the force required to close a tsg is not linear thus the relationship should be skewed. Very true. Perhaps our crush is not linear as well. Pluss my observations are not spot on measurements, just estimates of distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightyjoe Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Strange that simply as the force required to close a tsg is not linear thus the relationship should be skewed. Correct! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubgeezer Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 I have been looking at it that way for years. For me, it is about double what yours are. One centimeter is more than 20 lbs off in my case. Seems like in David Horne's old "Iron Grip" magazine, Mikael S had an article on how he "calibrated" grippers, which were THE ratings system for 3 or 4 years for European contests, and he used a system using estimates and relationships as you described to come up with "2.96, 2.72" etc levels of rating grippers. The RGC replaced that, but estimating distances of closes is a great training tool for some of us. IronMind invented the "Key" as a way to gauge progress, as RS used to make fun of me and my estimates of how far off of a close I was. The fact that Rich and I have such radical differences in our numbers tells me that this may be more personal and individual than one might think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autolupus Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Some people are stronger in the sweep, some in the close. Some grippers have a more linear curve, some ramp right up at the close. All info helps but until a grippers closed it's not beaten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macaz Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 A lot of good points here. Thanks guys. I guess it would be a very individual thing and only for a small range too for instance according to my proposed theory I am a mere 75 pounds away from closing my 1500 pound T13. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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