Your Favorite Exercise

[Vise]

i was just wondering what everyone's favorite exercise for improving your grip strength. this is, or course, excluding the simple exercise of the closing of a gipper, but not excluding strap holds, collar closes, extended handle closes, etc. i say this to avoid the stupid " uh, a gripper" posts. also when i say favorite i mean most productive exercise, for the two don't always correlate (i.e. i hate dl but they make me strong like bull). thanks

[EricMilfeld]

I think deadlifts with a medium- thick bar are very productive, though I don't much care for training thick bar.

Edited April 11, 2004 by EricMilfeld

[Sean Dockery]

I gotta say my favorite exercise for grip strength is blockweights. Wait a minute, that would be favorite implement....favorite exercise is blockweight deadlifts.

[jad]

plate curls or wrist plate curls

[HAMMERHEAD]

Tossup between Block Weights and no set negatives on the Gripinator.

-HH

[odin]

Blockweight deadlifts, forced reps, and negatives.

[Rekx]

this month my favorite has been strap holds.

[vince]

thick bar dead lifts

[JasonL]

4 finger deadlift lockouts. Using eagle loops use all the fingers of each hand, 3 or whatever and deadlift it using a barebell.

JasonL

[OldGuy]

wristroller

[Sybersnott]

Grip machines like the G-Rex or the NYB or even the painful SW.

[DoDa]

Strap holds have to rank high if not #1!

[Sybersnott]

Strap holds have to rank high if not #1!

They never did work for me. Steve Weiner (3Crusher) asked me to do them and I did... but I didn't get anything out of them. A short time later I learned about negatives and I started making the gains I was looking for. I also did work on the Secret Weapon and that made me gain my grip strength more than anything else. Strapholds are great and they have worked for a bunch of guys - I say find out what works best for you and stick with it; you'll experiment a bit, but that's o.k. - grip training is a journey and getting to your goal is half the fun!!!

[foggymountainmuscle]

I would say clean and jerks, or clean and presses with any impliment with a tough or ackward grip. Plates, thickbars, hubs, blockweights, even leverage bars come to mind. Taking something you can barely lift off the ground and putting up over your head is just cool. I'm a pretty good O lifter if I were to say, and a tough grip just makes for a sadistic challenge.

[gotenmyoou]

Block weight deadlifts.

[Ray Hansford]

I only train with grippers at the moment, but my favourite exercise is a static hold for 15-20 secs.

[f1perez]

Used to be negative crushes with a gripper. Now that I recently made some block weights I have to say the farmers walk with a pair of hex dumbell block weights.

[imodnar_]

one finger lifts

[Guest Hakfupai]

Peruvian Cocaine Grip

[Guest gripmaster316]

Negs, overcrushes. Thick wrist roller.

[Matt76]

Negative crushes and overcrushes with a filed gripper you know the kind that brings tears to your eyes b/c you're crushing the almightly hell out of the thing and you're trying to make it turn into dust

[Jeff Parker]

The farmers walk with my 1and5/8 handles are the toughest grip work I've ever done. only 4 sets of 200 ft make it so I can hardly even open my hand!

[FbaLLPlaya_53]

Sqauts.

[VeGripper]

Quarter deadlifts and static holds. Overloading up to around 70-80% more than I can deadlift off the floor makes for some harsh work on the hands. Hold it until it feels like your flesh will tear off and you'll never need to think about straps again!

[Chuckie B.]

Block weight deadlifts for two hand max singles, reps, timed holds, high pulls.