Strengthening Grip for Increased Weight Training

[gymBum]

yo whats up
I have seen many folks who are new to lifting overlooking and underestimating the benefits of increasing your grip strength.

Grip strength is not just some random strength that will help you with picking up objects and squeezing peoples' hands hard...

Increasing your grip strength can help you in other areas of weight training due to how much we use our hands / forearms when lifting.

• Chin ups are greatly affected by the strength of your grip as you must be able to hold onto the bar with your bodyweight pulling you down
• Wrist injuries are possible and more likely with a weaker grip, particular during exercises like heavy bench presses
• When training your grip, you will also add some mass to your forearms
• Exercises such as shrugs holding plates obviously requires you to grip the plate. You don't want to be putting the weight down in the middle of exercising your traps because your hands can't take it. Just as with this exercise, most free weight exercises require you gripping the weight and the more you strain about holding the weight, the less you are going to focus on your original lift.

what do you all think? any notable experiences?

john

[bronson]

Hey gymbum!I have always done an exercise about once a week,called wrist rolls.It helped with forearm and grip strength.For those not familiar with this exercise,Its a weight atached to a cable,attached to a bar or even a cut piece of a broom stick.You roll the weight up and down to failure.I do 3 sets to failure,then reverse rolls 3 sets to failure.Some call these wrist roll ups.Burns and strengthens.Try it!

[w0cyru01]

Yes
Rolling thunder
farmer's walks
Captain of Crush grippers
plate pinching
thickbar work

especially on deadlifting