OT:Captain Crush

Well, I can close the trainer... :rolleyes: . I picked up a #1 at the Blade show from the Emerson knives booth and I'm about 1/4" away from closing it. I'll be getting a trainer and a #2 next month after I get my paycheck. hoghead, I'm impressed. I couldn't even get the handles to move more than 1/2" on the #2, and the #3 handles barely flexed when I tried it. One of the reps at the Emerson table closed a #3 while I was there; it was impressive. That's my eventual goal; Emerson will even give you a free knife if you can close a #3 while at their table. If you can close a #4 you get a free handmade Emerson :eek: . So see bruise, there's a good knife related reason to have a gorilla grip :D . alphamaniv, you should do pretty good starting with a trainer. I had no trouble closing it the first time I tried, although it was an effort. I'm no wimp, but I've never seriously trained my grip before either.
 
Been working on building up my grip too, don't have those Captains Of Crush devices yet, using a hollow bar with a hole in the middle that I put a cable through and knotted it so it stays inside the tube, then on the other end, made a small steel plate, attached to the cable and slip that through a ten pound weight, cable is about 5' long, arms held out at about shoulder height, then start rolling the weight up to the bar, keeping the bar straight while doing this, then unroll the cable back down, do that three times without stopping makes my forearms really really really ache! I'm working towards doing it four times in a row and when I get there, up the weight to 15 pounds for three times...


and the purpose? no windpipes in my future but a solid grip is essential for about anything, if your life depended on something, your hands will probably be right in the forefront, so a strong secure grip can and will be important...for me at least!;)
G2
 
Gary, I have tried a device like you describe. I also used the "cheap" grippers and even the heaviest of those don't come close to the Captains of Crush ones. The Captains of Crush grippers are like working out compared to goofing off! That much of a difference.
Guess I want a free knife too! Those Emersons are nice folders.
PS, Try to read the Bible alot too! A strong body is wasted without a strong mind and spirit.
 
After reading most of the info on the webpage, I just have one thing to say. I never imagined so much could be said about something as simple as developing a strong grip.:p
 
Is that thing with the cable more for working the wrist than the actual grip? It seems that grip strength would be secondary in that excercise.

:confused:
 
I gained more control while shooting magnum handguns by working my hands with these things (not that I had a problem prior, this just help tighten my groups).

I can close #1 5 times, making it "click" the first 3 times. For a while, I was able to close it 11 times, but I put them down for a while and lost a lot. I need to pick up a #2 and start working with it.

The amazing part? I have skinny little arms. The thick part of my forearms are not much bigger than some people's wrists.

Gary's right, strong hands are important for more than peeling bananas and crushing windpipes (although the look on my enemies faces is priceless ;) ).

Chris
 
Originally posted by BruiseLeee
Is that thing with the cable more for working the wrist than the actual grip? It seems that grip strength would be secondary in that excercise.

:confused:

Bruise, my grip feels a lot stronger than before from using that, my forearm just below my elbow after three sets of three are very solid and tight from the work out, a friend of mine in the Navy had told me about this a long time ago, he was a UDT guy and ran a lot and had ONE heck of a grip, I asked him how he got that and he showed me what he had worked with, just recently taken it up again, a couple of years ago I could do two times with 20 pounds attached, brought it into work...sort of acted like it was nothing and had some people try it...lol...none could do it with that much weight and those that almost could had the bar flipping up and down like they were pumping for water, the bar should be kept as horizontal as possible and rely on your gripping both going up and then slowly going down, don't let gravity just pull the weight down. I don't own a gripper to compare the work outs to, maybe get one of those some day but for now this also makes your arms and shoulders work as well...
If you ever rock climb, you'd certainly appreciate a strong grip, did that a little and that's a tough sport! ;)
and yep Hoghead, reading that would be a good thing as well!
G2
 
Working hard, up to 4 consecutive trips up and down now, arms and grips are a lot stronger now but some time might want to check out one of those Captain's of Crush dealys to see how it relates to this type of continuous working of both wrist and forearms, here is a quick shot using my daughters inexpensive camera, the pipe is 1 1/2" inside opening, drilled one hole in the middle to insert the cable, drew the cable down and out the one end and knotted it so it won't slip back through the hole, the weight has a flat bar with a hole through it that the cable passes through, the flat bar then can slip through the hole in the weight...

Keeping the pipe as horizontal as possible with arms almost fully extended out, 4 times up and down with out stopping, then three sets of 3 times and a final set of 2, forearms feel like they will burst, and it makes it difficult to TYPE! ;)

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G2
 
Originally posted by Gary W. Graley
Working hard, up to 4 consecutive trips up and down now, arms and grips are a lot stronger now but some time might want to check out one of those Captain's of Crush dealys to see how it relates to this type of continuous working of both wrist and forearms, here is a quick shot using my daughters inexpensive camera, the pipe is 1 1/2" inside opening, drilled one hole in the middle to insert the cable, drew the cable down and out the one end and knotted it so it won't slip back through the hole, the weight has a flat bar with a hole through it that the cable passes through, the flat bar then can slip through the hole in the weight...

Keeping the pipe as horizontal as possible with arms almost fully extended out, 4 times up and down with out stopping, then three sets of 3 times and a final set of 2, forearms feel like they will burst, and it makes it difficult to TYPE! ;)

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G2

I'm still trying to find the article on this guy that supposedly had the world's strongest grip. He did a variation of this pipe and cable exercise with a phenomenal amount of weight. Thing is he did it out his two or three story apartment buiding fire escape all the way down to the ground, and all the way back up. Whew!!!
 
Originally posted by ichor
I'm still trying to find the article on this guy that supposedly had the world's strongest grip. He did a variation of this pipe and cable exercise with a phenomenal amount of weight. Thing is he did it out his two or three story apartment buiding fire escape all the way down to the ground, and all the way back up. Whew!!!

Whoa, glad I live on the ground floor! hehe

I'll stick with the cable and was going to add more weight but will weight until I can do the 4 reps with less effort!
G2
 
Originally posted by Gary W. Graley
Whoa, glad I live on the ground floor! hehe

I'll stick with the cable and was going to add more weight but will weight until I can do the 4 reps with less effort!
G2

I'm far from an expert, Gary, but I think you should go to 3 reps at more weight. When you can do 4, as easily as you're doing 4 now, raise the weight and go back to 3...........ad infinitum. Just my 2 cents.
 
I hope I don't bug anyone by dragging this back to the top, but I just wanted to let everyone know I closed my #1 today :D . I'm surprised by how quickly you can progress with these! I ordered a Trainer and the two grip training books by John Brookfield that Ironmind sells, they helped a lot. If anyone would be interested in doing a pass-around with the two books let me know. After I re-read them a few times I'll probably send them out to any who are interested. Depending on my progress I may be persuaded to include the trainer to give people a standard of comparison.
 
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