Can You Strengthen Your Grip Without Weights?
Dear Friend,
The only way most people know to strengthen
their grip involves weights or some type of
hand gripper.
You'll find people doing wrist curls and reverse wrist
curls. These are nice for giving your forearms a
good pump, but do almost nothing to strengthen your
grip. Almost nothing functional in those movements.
Hand grippers come a lot closer and there are many
a person can use to develop tremendous grip strength -
yet there are still many ways to develop a great grip
without using anything but your two hands and your
mind.
Fingertip pushups help a lot. As you get good at doing
pushups on all five digits, just gradually reduce the number
being used until you're like the Shaolin monks who can do
a one-finger handstand.
My friend, John Wood, teaches a lot of isometrics for your
hands as well as fingertip pushups. And John should know as
he closed the #3 Captains of Crush Gripper when he was 15.
No small feat by any stretch. John will be teaching his grip
strengthening system at my Shaolin Fitness Seminar December
3-4, so if you want to learn, be sure to enroll. We have a couple
spots left, then we're sold out - so if you want in, go here.
In addition to fingertip pushups and isometrics, there are a lot of
other equipment free exercises you can do for your grip. In my
course on How to Eliminate Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Pain Within
30 Days - I show some basic tendon and ligament strengthening
exercises that are rooted in Chinese Kung Fu.
One of my favorites is the simple act of spreading your fingers
as wide as you can, then making a super tight fist. If you open
wide and hold for a count, then close tight for a count, and do
50 concentration reps this way - I can guarantee your grip
strength will improve ... and quickly, too.
One of the other powerful ways to build grip strength is via
rope climbing. Doesn't matter how you climb that rope, just
having to grip and pull builds legendary hand strength.
Ed Baran, who co-authored The Secret Power of Handstand Training
with me some years ago is going to be teaching at my bootcamp as
well, and he's going to blow people away with what he reveals on
chin-ups, pullups and rope climbing.
Not long ago I saw some Chinese acrobats climbing up silk ropes.
Very thin, very silk ropes. I wouldn't even call them ropes - they're
just pieces of silk hanging from the ceiling. Now just imagine how
friggin strong your grip has to be in order to do that.
So the moral of the story: Although gadgets are great for developing
a powerful grip - just using your own hands can do wonders for you,
too.
Just think, next time you're caught in traffic, instead of complaining or
spending your time listening to bubble-gum music, you can crank out
as set of 50 finger spreaders/fist clinchers.
Best,
P.S. If also interested in the grip strengthening possibilities in my
Carpal Tunnel program, simply go here.
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