Grip Routine Help Needed!

[ChimpGrip]

I want to start really training for a stronger grip all around. As I've stated before, I've done deadlifts and curls with a 3 1/2 inch thick barbell, plate pinches, and sometimes put towels around the grip to make it more difficult

How can I have a routine that trains every aspect of grip? A workout routine that has a grip day that includes training with grippers, thick bars and plate pinches, how would I create this? Or is this overtraining?

[Guest Squat More]

Read the grip well and all the questions there, then read more threads here, no such cookie cutter program exists that targets every aspect of grip and if it did, it for sure wouldn't work for everyone anyhow. Even the program I have written for specialization on the Rolling Thunder may not work for every single person out there exactly as I wrote it due to volume and frequency but the basic idea of the program (reps and volume) will apply to almost every single person. Stephen Ruby has said while he doesn't follow the program I wrote up as I wrote it, the meat and potatoes of it's philosophy (high reps) has really helped raise his rolling thunder lifts.

The best advice anyone can give you is to learn your body, how you respond to certain training, the intensity, the frequency, the volume etc, get strong ALL OVER (SQUAT!) - don't be the 145 pound guy who complains about having a hard time gaining strength when a strong gust of wind could blow you away. Focus on different aspects of grip at one time (grippers, thickbar, pinch, levering, ets) with different goals for various lengths of time, trying to do everything at once, let along at once IN the same session and gain strength at everything at once is kinda tough for most people. It is possible to maintain strength in certain areas while focusing on others and raising them. Say a few months of gripper training with some light thickbar or pinch work, then a few months of serious pinch or serious thickbar training with grippers done for reps and maintain strength levels. Something like that... it is up to you to figure it out, it is up to you to find out how your body responds to the training and the movements etc. Advice can only be given to a certain point until you have to think for yourself.

My .02

[Mephistopholes]

Well, don't put em all on the same day. Do one or two at the end of each workout; I wouldn't recommend having an all out "grip day" where you try to do everything.

[climber511]

Squat More gave some good advice. Build the base - Build the base - Build the base! Everyone wants to rush the job and just like in building a house - a rush job is never as good as taking one's time and doing it right. First build your body to a respectable strength level "for an athlete". - you may already have done this - I have no idea of course. Do Power Forearms and finger curls for a solid 3 to 4 months done as written (brutally hard) or use David Horne's beginner program for a similar time period. Forget grippers, fat bars, and pretty much all things "Grip" except this. Have you noticed that all the mechanics, farmers, Strongman competitors etc all come into grip and start at a much higher level than all the office worker types? All the "toys" we employ are great but people are forgetting to just get strong and bulletproof first. Tendons and ligaments adapt slower. One big problem with grip is that there is no feedback like with a heavy dead lift or C&J - those lifts hurt when they get heavy and you know when you have really pushed the limits (during and afterwords) - things like grippers, pinch etc don't offer the same kind of feed back so its easier to overdo and cause injury on the grip toys. I know it's a tough thing to do but taking the long view will take you a lot further.

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Edited November 29, 2013 by climber511

[CANCRUSHER]

As other said:your grip routine should be based on strength routine.

Deadlift,squat,bench,oh press,rows this is the base.

EAT a lot and if you are skinny i suggest only 2 big meals per day.

[ChimpGrip]

Thanks for the advice guys. I have a lot of work to do

[Guest Squat More]

Slow and steady wins the race, man. *points at his signature*