Gripper Schedule

[Fist of Fury]

I've been using that method, also something similar to what Chez explains in the video mentioned earlier. I'm not on #3 and beyond level of strength but using these type of workouts took me from around 105 to where I'm at now, which is 130'ish level. I have now stagnated so I'm trying the "russian strength training program" now, which is really difficult to implement with grippers but I have the Silvis T-Rex and also the RB adjustable which makes it a lot easier. I'm currently on my second week, first three weeks you only work with the same weight (gripper in this case) but on the sixth (last) week you should do a "max" of 2x2 on the first day, it will be interesting to see if I feel stronger or weaker than before on that day...

In the past I've felt that I got weaker when not doing grippers every day, my PR closes has always been when I feel or think I'm the weakest

The problem for me was when I trained every day, doing many heavy closes during the whole day I got injured. Took about six months to heal. I'm not sure if it was because of overtraining or not but I do believe the heavy training at least played a part in it.

Lately I have found that I do very little progress, too little for me to be satisfied, so thats why I'm trying to train less to see if that works for me. The program I'm on right now is by no means a small amount of training, it's still a lot, just not as much as I did before.

I've also started to focus a lot on closing speed, really trying to click all grippers I'm closing.

This program has worked really good for me, I had that "max" day today and I actually felt like I have increased my strength more than 5 % already so instead of doing 2x2 with a CoC#2.5 as I planned I did a little more. I did 2x2 three times spread out during the day instead and did some good negatives with a CoC#3. Was around 13-14 mm from closing it with a wide set, before I'm only been able to get it to parallel. So big improvement already for me with this program.