ChimpGrip Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 How can one effectively develop "torque" strength (I don't know what else to call it) What I mean by this, is unscrewing bolts out of a wall or off a machine, unscrewing it out of anything using just your fingers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvance Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Check out John Brookfields grip tips in the IM site. I think he has one where you spin plates by the hub... Or just get creative and make your own movements Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electron Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Mighty Atom is said to have been able to unscrew a car's lug nuts using his finger strength. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Pizzo Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Personally I would buy a really good torque wrench and tighten bolts to a low amount of torque to start and practice unscrewing them with my hand. Then when a certain amount of torque becomes easy I would turn up the torque wrench and keep increasing torque like that. Increasing resistance would be fairly easy to track with a torque wrench. Good luck man. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
climber511 Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 It would be fairly easy to make up something to train this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChimpGrip Posted May 17, 2014 Author Share Posted May 17, 2014 Personally I would buy a really good torque wrench and tighten bolts to a low amount of torque to start and practice unscrewing them with my hand. Then when a certain amount of torque becomes easy I would turn up the torque wrench and keep increasing torque like that. Increasing resistance would be fairly easy to track with a torque wrench. Good luck man. Should they be screwed into a piece of plywood? Thank you very much for the input! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Pizzo Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Should they be screwed into a piece of plywood? Thank you very much for the input! You could try, but each time you tighten it and loosen it it will degrade the wood until you can no longer tighten it in the hole, and this will happen fairly quickly if you are doing sets of screwing and unscrewing. I think you need to find something with a machine screw in it I.E. steel screws or bolts and use that. I don't know what kind of stuff you have access to, but ideally I would use a bolt big enough that feels comfortable in your hand that is screwed into steel and tightened with the torque wrench to whatever level you can work out with. Just the thoughts off the top of my head...feel free to experiment and come back to the thread to let us know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
climber511 Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 A down and dirty progressive way to do this if you own a Power Rack. Say you have a rack with holes for a 1" pin.- buy a longish 1" bolt and using a piece of small rope, tie a timber hitch around it with a length hanging down with a loop in the end. Stick the bolt into the rack hole, clip it to a loading pin and simply grab the bolt head and twist away. Wrap the other way as well and you have a way to do progressive loading of what you are talking about 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJ Livesey Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 2x4 + wood screws + Philips head = wrist and hand torque. Screw them. Unscrew them. Screw them. Unscrew them. Repeat until you can't move. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Pizzo Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 i have removed and installed many tough bolts and nuts by hand over the years. i have not noticed any additional strength other than a little bit of callous. your fingers are only going to be able to handle so much resistance before the hardware begins to remove flesh. based of dealing with tons of hardware, id say once you get to a nut or bolt torqued to about 25-30 ft lbs, your fingertips will split.. so i guess, techically, you could be stronger than my advertised poundage, but it wouldnt be with bare hands. These sound like very wise words...it might not be worth training this feat bare handed if your just gonna ruin your fingers man. But don't let me discourage you if you really want this. I'd just play it safe and go slowly with the amount of torque you start working with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king crusher Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Mighty Atom is said to have been able to unscrew a car's lug nuts using his finger strength. Lmao I'm sorry but this made me laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImpGrip Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 would this be similar to the strength when switch gripping a deadlift because you need to create torque to prevent the bar from rolling out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJ Livesey Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 would this be similar to the strength when switch gripping a deadlift because you need to create torque to prevent the bar from rolling out Wut? If what you're saying is the same movement as tightening a bolt or screw, then yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king crusher Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 would this be similar to the strength when switch gripping a deadlift because you need to create torque to prevent the bar from rolling out Wut? If what you're saying is the same movement as tightening a bolt or screw, then yes. he's not EJ. He's talking about hand position on a conventional dead lift. Alternating grip. One hand over the other under. That is supporting grip where as loosing a bolt would be a ton of finger strength as well as hand and wrist. And forearm. But I'd say fingers would be the first to fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJ Livesey Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 would this be similar to the strength when switch gripping a deadlift because you need to create torque to prevent the bar from rolling out Wut? If what you're saying is the same movement as tightening a bolt or screw, then yes. he's not EJ. He's talking about hand position on a conventional dead lift. Alternating grip. One hand over the other under. That is supporting grip where as loosing a bolt would be a ton of finger strength as well as hand and wrist. And forearm. But I'd say fingers would be the first to fail. Gotcha, it wasn't coherent enough for me. The over/under grip, now it makes sense. Thanks King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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