I’ve upped my grip strength training of late after my 4th place in David Horne’s ‘Britain’s Strongest Hands’
I learnt a shed load of stuff doing these comps (my first grip comps ever actually) and have seriously enjoyed the progress I seem to have made in a short period. I do’nt think any of the progress was anything magic, just me adjusting to new things and the usual fast progress you often make when doing new stuff.
Most of all I enjoyed David’s Grip Topz and the 2 Hands Pinch work.
With my background in heavy kettlebelling especially BUP’s I have found the move over into grip fairly easy and not too harsh (I have been doing some grip training for a few years I must add) on my mitts.
The most fearsome of all grip/hand strength events I encountered was the Wrist developer, I have had one for a few years now and only really started using it properly for the BSH comps, I managed to do a full bend on level 9 Gold Spring. If I enter the WSH this is something I will spend some time training due to how harsh it seems to be on your forearm muscles.
Here are a couple of videos of some recent grip training
24kg Hub Lift using the Griptopz Shallow Hub (I did 18.4kg in the comp using 3 fingers – over the last couple of weeks I worked out how to do this properly)
90kg 2 Hands Pinch
With the 2HP I did 94 kg (with 64mm) in the comp and last week did 98kg in training, aim is to break 100kg before end of the year.
To round off here’s a video I put together about Kettlebell Training for Grip Strength, I figured I’ve been building a hand strength with kettlebells for a long time indirectly so got many of the exercises I do with them in one place
On a closing note, it has been a great experience doing grip competition (plenty more to come) and to meet David Horne (Grip legend) has been awesome as he is a fantastic ambassador for the sport of grip (as well as a proper allround great bloke with no end of information and help for everyone) and I’m sure he will inspire many more people to take up this superb sport.
