r/GripTraining

Hi Everyone,

Pardon the ignorance but this is a concept I never understood and I'm not exactly sure how to even phrase the question. I know deadlifts are 'support grip' and grippers are 'crushing grip'. To me, a deadlift is trying to force the hand and fingers to open - is this not the same thing that a gripper is doing?

I understand they wouldn't be 1:1, but how come grippers are regarded as having zero carry over to deadlift strength? You are training your hand to close against a force, especially if you are closing the gripper and holding it shut, which is similar to your hand resisting the force of the barbell and keeping the hand shut.

Hello, I had a handgrip test for a job where I had to score at least 36kg on a digital dynamometer, I managed to only do 32kg, in 2 weeks I can have another try at it to pass. As a disclamer I don't do any gym just a lot of cardio.

I bought a handgrip from Decathlon that goes up to 40kgs and managed to squeeze the 40kgs 3-4 times when fully rested, the difference with the dynamometer is that it was made of 2 little rectangular blocks some millimeters from each other that I had to squeeze. Now it could be I was tired during the test, but I would assume the 40kgs of the Decathlon handgrip aren't the same as a digital dynamometer.

I started training every day with the handgrip until I can't squeeze the 32kgs setting a bunch of times anymore, I don't really have any pain or strain on hand/arm and only feel slightly sore in my wrist in the morning (same sensation as when training muscles).

I'm wondering if there's something else I can add to improve my chances at passing the day of the test? I was wondering if I should also integrate with pull-ups or dead hangs (or some other exercise), I can do about 8 pull ups in a row but don't want to get more fatigued than I should if it's no use for what I'm training for.
Thanks if u can help

Hey all! Sorry if there's still a mega thread or guide but I didn't see one. I usually do some pullups here and there, maybe 10 - 15, but I've recently fell in love with deadhangs just for my spine and the grip aspect. I usually can get about a minute 30 before it really fucking burns and I drop, should I swap to one hand soon? what do you guys think would be the best way to improve from here.

Thanks :D

I plan to train everyother day for general strength and hypertrophy. I have an A and B day and want to add 1 forearm/grip exercise at the end of each - this will work well as I have a day of rest inbetween each training day. I'm currently doing dead hangs at the end of one and farmer's carries at the end of the other, in addition to pulling exercises on both so thought this is enough to develop my grip strength and forearms over time (atleast until a certain point where I'll need to do wirst curls and reverse curls), but from the community info discovered I'll be lacking in progressing crushing and pinch strength. On top of that, apparently both farmer's carries and dead hangs train support grip, so I'd be better off replacing one with a different type of grip exercise.

My question is, if I do weighted dead hangs progressing in weight over time (add weight to each set once it reaches 1min hang time), will that be enough to progress crushing grip over time too? I know I will need to isolate pinch strength. This way I could end one session with pinch grip and the other with support/crush. If this is not possible (i.e I can't progress crush and support with one movement) I'll look into ending one session with pinch, the other with support, and train crush at home with grippers. I'm also doing rice buckets for rehabilitation, as I've had forearm/wrist pain in the past.

Was thinking on getting into grip strength training but don't know the best equipment to do so. I think i was some sort of pinch blocks with loading pins and definitely a Bruce lee grip machine (Vice grip trainer) if yall have any suggestions on this equipment please let me know!