Toughening up the hands for grippers

[BCBS23]

When I toughened up my weak wrists and forearms I did a program of 6 days a week for 4 weeks.

I did 4 sets of 25 reps with light weight every day but Sunday

It did the trick, my forearms and wrist strenght is much much better

Would a similar aproach be ok for grippers?

 

 

[Slipshod]

You use your hands everyday to grip things, it also pretty much exclusively puts strain on the flexors, and it is easy to get muscular imbalances leading to tendon pains. At 25 reps a set you aren't really training for strength though so you are unlikely to do to much damage.

Your tendons need a lot more time to strengthen than your muscles, on the positive side tendon healing actually does require some movement as tendons do not directly have blood vessels supplying them unlike muscles.

Start with twice weekly, see how your recovery looks and how your hands feel. If it's okay then every other day etc etc. Also make sure you do targeted extensor work as well.

[BCBS23]

Thanks for the reply

l will start with twice a week and do some Rice bucket training for extensions

 

[Fist of Fury]

Training grippers six days per week as a beginner is not a good idea.

Keep going with your wrist training routine but do it four days a week and do grippers three days a week. Spread it out so that you train seven days a week. That's abetter approach. If you train grippers that much if you're a beginner you will most likely end up getting hurt and at minimum you will get problems with your skin.

[Blacksmith513]

it worked before because of newb gains probably. 

what are your goals... to get better at grippers?  why do you want to toughen your hands for grippers to close a 3?, beat your buddy in a handshake competition?

 

either way no need to train grippers every day. get on a good program stay disciplined and you will get stronger

[BCBS23]

Thans guys, I will add wrist training to the mix

So twice a week grippers and twice a week wrist training

And I will see how I feel in a couple of weeks and maybe adjust the schedule

[BCBS23]

So things are going well, recovery is no problem. I will keep doing grip(also includes TTK and Finger Curls) twice a week and wrist twice a week.

I have one question: when doing TTK, Grippers or Finger Curls is it worth it to go slow on the eccentric part?

Helped me very much with my forearms(I have some wrist instability), so was wondering if it would help with grip