Originally Posted by smokinonthatKK
Isnt that just a fancy way to say "work your dorsiflexion muscles"?
highly unlikely that anybody needs grip strength
1) No, not necessarily at all. It's about how you train any muscle group at all if you're also an athlete.
2) Grip strength can be a limiting factor for training. Example- I can't deadlift a whole lot of weight without straps because if I had to rely on my own grip strength, I can't lift nearly as much as my back can handle. Taking grip strength out of the equation I can add well over 100 pounds to my deadlft to more adequately hit my back.
The point of the thread however isn't "Why should I train grip strength" it's "Hey, I'm training grip strength, and here's how", so I figured I'd give my academic opinion about why his method of training is sub-optimal by talking about what I've found to be true with training.
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YEAH!! DrHax gets it.
Makes it easier to do stuff you would be limited in otherwise. Also climbing becomes easier, as does just holding stuff in general, as an added bonus I can crush hands when shaking peoples hands, and if it ever came to it i guess i could dangle off the edge of a cliff for longer, however thats a different type of training more focused on endurance whereas this is for actually squeezing things.
BONUS if at some point I can close the captain of crush number 3 hand gripper, I get to be forever immortalized on their website as one of less than 200 people that can do so. At this rate though I don't see that happening soon.
furthermore: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/1...grip-strength/
Makes it easier to do stuff you would be limited in otherwise. Also climbing becomes easier, as does just holding stuff in general, as an added bonus I can crush hands when shaking peoples hands, and if it ever came to it i guess i could dangle off the edge of a cliff for longer, however thats a different type of training more focused on endurance whereas this is for actually squeezing things.
BONUS if at some point I can close the captain of crush number 3 hand gripper, I get to be forever immortalized on their website as one of less than 200 people that can do so. At this rate though I don't see that happening soon.
furthermore: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/1...grip-strength/
. Research has now shown that grip strength has proven to be a reliable indicator for quality of life at an older age. For instance, in 1999 a study concluded the following:
“Among healthy 45- to 68-year-old men, hand grip strength was highly predictive of functional limitations and disability 25 years later. Good muscle strength in midlife may protect people from old age disability by providing a greater safety margin above the threshold of disability.”
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