Increase Your Grip Strength Now!
These work outs are designed specifically to really improve your grip strength. They're deceptively simple, but with sufficient weight and determination they'll challenge your abilities and develop you a crushing grip.
So, let's get started!
- Farmer's Walk -
That one really is easy. You choose up two dumbbells, heavy ones that you could barely keep, and hold them provided you can while walking together. That's it. Simple, extremely brutal on your forearms, and great for improving your grip strength. I know because my typing is difficult right now because my forearms are sore. For a bonus challenge you can try shrugs while doing the farmer's walk!
- Wrist Roller -
The wrist roller is a very common piece of exercise equipment you may have seen. It's basically a tube or rod having a rope or chain attached to the center of it. You hang a weight from the rope (or chain) after which, making use of your forearms, find yourself the rope till the load reaches the very best. After which slowly, with control, you allow the weight down.
Again, nothing real fancy - just something that's simple and brutally effective. Holding both hands down low, around hip altitude together with your arms extend downward, and finding yourself the load with only your wrists and forearms is the approach to take. Also, make sure that you do this exercise together with your palms up with them facing down. This will insure even forearm development.
- Wrist Cast -
This option are exciting if you have an iron rod, or short barbell, or long & heavy sledgehammer, or sword, or 4x4 with a handle, or something like that long and high. Grab the rod in a single hand at one end and, only moving your wrist, 'cast' another end of the rod forward. Kind of like casting the end of the fly fishing rod forward, but only making use of your wrist. Then, again only using your wrist, bring the tip back.
This really is much like pounding nails with only your forearm, with only a heavy hammer. And no nails. And absolutely nothing to nail in. However the movement is similar. If you do any sport that involves that wrist casting movement, this will help you enormously.
- Weight Throw and Catch -
All of this one requires is something compact and heavy, like a bag of lead shot, the end of the dumbbell, a lump of metal, or perhaps a heavy rock. Something heavy that you can grip in one hand.
Holding it close to your body in one hand, toss up and catch it close to the other side of your body with your other hand. Then toss it back to your top notch. After which, just keep tossing it back and forth.
if you wish to allow it to be tougher you can aquire a heavier weight. Or just toss the weight higher, so that it takes more effort to throw and to catch. This creates your gripping speed, that is helpful for many sports.
Improving your grip strength takes hard work, much like anything else of value in life. With these exercises you can start your grip training. If you need other great ideas for exercises or weight training info, for your hands or the remainder of your body, simply click on the links below.
So, let's get started!
- Farmer's Walk -
That one really is easy. You choose up two dumbbells, heavy ones that you could barely keep, and hold them provided you can while walking together. That's it. Simple, extremely brutal on your forearms, and great for improving your grip strength. I know because my typing is difficult right now because my forearms are sore. For a bonus challenge you can try shrugs while doing the farmer's walk!
- Wrist Roller -
The wrist roller is a very common piece of exercise equipment you may have seen. It's basically a tube or rod having a rope or chain attached to the center of it. You hang a weight from the rope (or chain) after which, making use of your forearms, find yourself the rope till the load reaches the very best. After which slowly, with control, you allow the weight down.
Again, nothing real fancy - just something that's simple and brutally effective. Holding both hands down low, around hip altitude together with your arms extend downward, and finding yourself the load with only your wrists and forearms is the approach to take. Also, make sure that you do this exercise together with your palms up with them facing down. This will insure even forearm development.
- Wrist Cast -
This option are exciting if you have an iron rod, or short barbell, or long & heavy sledgehammer, or sword, or 4x4 with a handle, or something like that long and high. Grab the rod in a single hand at one end and, only moving your wrist, 'cast' another end of the rod forward. Kind of like casting the end of the fly fishing rod forward, but only making use of your wrist. Then, again only using your wrist, bring the tip back.
This really is much like pounding nails with only your forearm, with only a heavy hammer. And no nails. And absolutely nothing to nail in. However the movement is similar. If you do any sport that involves that wrist casting movement, this will help you enormously.
- Weight Throw and Catch -
All of this one requires is something compact and heavy, like a bag of lead shot, the end of the dumbbell, a lump of metal, or perhaps a heavy rock. Something heavy that you can grip in one hand.
Holding it close to your body in one hand, toss up and catch it close to the other side of your body with your other hand. Then toss it back to your top notch. After which, just keep tossing it back and forth.
if you wish to allow it to be tougher you can aquire a heavier weight. Or just toss the weight higher, so that it takes more effort to throw and to catch. This creates your gripping speed, that is helpful for many sports.
Improving your grip strength takes hard work, much like anything else of value in life. With these exercises you can start your grip training. If you need other great ideas for exercises or weight training info, for your hands or the remainder of your body, simply click on the links below.