Advice On Planning My Next Training Cycle

[gm1swm]

I'm planning my next training cycle to build up to closing the IM 3.5.

With that, I'm wanting some advice on how to plan my progression with the grippers.

My plan is to do MMS or CCS reps every week with a gripper, gradually increasing each week. In other words, week one, I'll do CCS reps with the #3, the second week will consist of CCS reps or MMS reps with an MM1 or whatever the next RGC'ed gripper that follows it and so on.

It makes sense to treat grippers like a deadlift or bench press by gradually increasing the difficulty each week, but I just wanted some insight on whether or not this actually works.

[Chez]

I'm planning my next training cycle to build up to closing the IM 3.5.

With that, I'm wanting some advice on how to plan my progression with the grippers.

My plan is to do MMS or CCS reps every week with a gripper, gradually increasing each week. In other words, week one, I'll do CCS reps with the #3, the second week will consist of CCS reps or MMS reps with an MM1 or whatever the next RGC'ed gripper that follows it and so on.

It makes sense to treat grippers like a deadlift or bench press by gradually increasing the difficulty each week, but I just wanted some insight on whether or not this actually works.

Have you ever tried doing low rep gripper drop sets. I made a lot of progress by doing them. Start with the hardest gripper that you have that allows you to get 1-3 reps, then drop to the next hardest that allows you to get 1-3 reps and so on and so on. After 4 warm up sets, I would do 8-10 working drop sets. I improved really quickly on that routine. I'm planning another cycle like that as soon as World's Strongest Hands is over. I did this for a long time though and it took its toll and I had to stop because it is taxing on the hands and I started to see signs of tendinitis. Doing it for 1 or 2 months at a time should be okay.

[gm1swm]

This is exactly one of the ideas I had in mind, Chez...probably from looking at your training logs.

How did you know when to bump up to a more difficult gripper? I'd imagine you were getting 3 reps with your hardest gripper, which meant it was time to move up the next workout?

[Chez]

This is exactly one of the ideas I had in mind, Chez...probably from looking at your training logs.

How did you know when to bump up to a more difficult gripper? I'd imagine you were getting 3 reps with your hardest gripper, which meant it was time to move up the next workout?

Exactly, when I was getting more than 3 parallel reps, I knew the gripper was too easy. Its like power lifting for grippers. Getting only 1 rep is even better. Aaron C. also believes in a similar training method and he is MM5 so it worked for him as well. Its important to experiment with different programs but this might work for you.