Newbie Gains

[Edrik]

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Ive been gaining some decent strength every time i do holds, probably just newbie gains.

Should I keep focusing on holds or change to reps and if so paralel or CCS reps? 

[Cannon]

6 minutes ago, Edrik said:

Should I keep focusing on holds or change to reps and if so paralel or CCS reps? 

Is the purpose of your training to close harder grippers? If yes, I personally think you should switch to reps. I do not think it's necessary to do CCS reps unless you're in a focused and specialized training push leading up to certification. Just do whatever width you find comfortable.

[kurtwpg]

As someone who is weak on wider sets, I'd tend to think there's some value in not necessarily doing CCS reps, but as wide as is comfortable, maybe 40-45 mm, without measuring all the time. I've found that my over-emphasis on parallel and deep sets has left me embarrassed about what I can do from reasonable width.

[Slipshod]

1 minute ago, kurtwpg said:

As someone who is weak on wider sets, I'd tend to think there's some value in not necessarily doing CCS reps, but as wide as is comfortable, maybe 40-45 mm, without measuring all the time. I've found that my over-emphasis on parallel and deep sets has left me embarrassed about what I can do from reasonable width.

Inverse for me, my barely sets and MMS are almost the same thing. I do also suggest the same thing though, doing reasonably wide sets is going to be the most useful in the long run. If you go for an IronMind cert then you can train slightly wider leading up to it.

[Luke Blackwell]

The good thing about training in the parallel range Is that it allows you to make good, consistent progress on closing heavy grippers. Also, once you close a gripper with a parallel set, you can work your way out by slowly using wider sets. 

Edited October 1 by Luke Blackwell

[king crusher]

When I started with grippers I did a well rounded amount of closes which definitely help me work through a full range of motion and get strong in all areas. I did tons of mms to micro reps and also did lots of no set closes plus I did holds usually on the last rep of a set. At work I used to do the 1 for reps until I hit 1,000 etc

[degradated]

I would personally start with sets using a wide spread gripper (to get accustomed to using your off-hand to set the gripper in place) and go from there.

Also some TNS with preferably a narrower spread could potentially help. 

Holds are about the last thing I would do, but I could still see some benefit from that. 

You will see the greatest gains using a gripper where you can only do 1-3 reps max (preceding with warm-up sets of course).

There are more experienced gripsters that can help you, but this is what has worked for me so far.