Hand Grippers

Farmer’s carry. Dumbbell or barbell shrugs. Lat pulldowns. Deadlifts. For a lot of people, the limiting factor for these and other lifts is their grip strength, meaning the muscles in their wrists and forearms tap out before the target muscles in their lats, traps, and elsewhere.

The solution to this dilemma is hand grippers.

Coming in a range of strengths, hand grippers are most commonly nothing more than a torsion spring with plastic or metal handles that you place in your palm and squeeze together against the resistance until they touch. Once the handles are in contact with one another, release and repeat the movement.

Simple!

The regular use of hand grippers, or grip strengtheners as they’re also known by, will improve many of your lifts but you should also notice improvement in the performance of everyday activities, such as grabbing groceries, walking the dog, opening pickle jars, carrying luggage, and pimp-slapping hoes who come up short with your money because they have yet to learn that Gator don’t play no shit.¹

Glossary: barbell, deadlift, dumbbell, lats, muscle, traps

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Monster Longe

Monster Longe is a personal trainer in San Diego. He has been lifting weights for +25 years and training clients in the gym and online for about half of that time. When not working with clients or making content that's easy to read, understand, and apply to everyday life, he enjoys long walks and leaving buildings crushed and entire city blocks decimated in his wake.

Hand Grippers

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