How To Train Your Grip Strength

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

You ever think about how much you use your hands when you train? Think about it. When you are using a barbell, a kettlebell, the pull up rig, or a pair of rings, your grip strength is playing a huge role in your strength, how long you can perform the movement, and the level of movement capacity you have. More importantly, it is typically the first thing to give out.

In this week's show, we caught up with Andy Galpin and Kenny Kane at CrossFit LA to talk about how you can step up your game when it comes to grip strength. We dive into wrist mobility, gymnastics drills, and why you need to be training your grip in different positions.

Example: the 2015 CrossFit Games Pegboard challenge. Some of the strongest athletes in the world are throwing massive weight overhead, doing gnarly metcons, and performing kipping pullups for days ...but as soon as they are required to turn their hand position 90 degrees, their grip strength goes to shit. You can bet that the games athletes who fell apart in that event are going to be spending some time training their grip strength. You should too, and a great place to start is with this episode.

Enjoy the show,

Mike

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0:00.0	Right so as I go I can improve my aerodynamic performance or something.
0:02.7	Well let's look at the hand position.
0:04.3	You're out of place, you're leaking 10%.
0:06.5	Now we just fix one thing and all of a sudden it gets fixed.
0:09.2	Or my shoulder always bothers me when I do this movement.
0:11.5	Or why is my neck always hurt when I do these?
0:13.7	Well we can actually fix it because the entire chain is out of position
0:16.5	because we haven't started with the right finger placement.
0:30.4	好不好
0:49.9	You got to start removing iron ...
0:53.0	We knew that dance.
0:56.2	We knew that dance.
0:57.0	We knew that dance.
0:57.7	We knew that dance.
0:58.7	We knew that dance.
0:59.7	We knew that dance.
1:00.7	We knew that dance.
1:01.7	All those years of dance finally paid off for this cut.
1:03.9	Totally.
1:04.9	We need some physicality to the show.
1:06.9	We do.
1:07.8	Yeah.
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