Picking up two dumbbells and walking around might not appear to be anything special. It looks too easy. No challenge at all, maybe some cardio and working your grip a little bit. But once you start taking ... Continue Reading
3 Kettlebell Exercises for an Iron Grip
Whether you know it or not, your forearm and grip strength say a lot about you. Grip strength is a quick way to evaluate how much full body strength one possesses. If you have the hand strength of a ... Continue Reading
How Grip Strength Defines You
Grip strength keeps popping up in fitness-related headlines. Why? Because it is so fundamental to daily function and it has been shown to be a clear indicator of cardiovascular health and mortality. Plus, ... Continue Reading
Do You Need Extra Grip Work?
Anyone who has ever trained in judo or Brazilian jiu jitsu for any length of time will know this simple truth – if you can’t hang onto your opponent, you can’t control them. Grip is a large part of any ... Continue Reading
Love Handles Grip Training System (Product Review)
Love Handles are the brainchild of industrial designer Chris Corrigan and his company Warcry WODtech. As a practitioner of strongman, powerlifting, and CrossFit training, Chris felt a need for a better ... Continue Reading
Fixing the Flip Side of Grip Strength Issues: Tight Extensors
This is part two to last month’s post on Un-Clawing Your Paw and Other Impediments to Grip Strength. I’m back with another video from my colleague Lillee Chandra who is now helping us to take a look at the ... Continue Reading
Grip Strength for Lifters, Climbers, and Fighters
Grip strength is crucial to almost all athletes, and especially to strength training. If the hands cannot grip a heavy object, the body thinks it cannot lift the heavy object. And if the body cannot lift ... Continue Reading
Un-Clawing Your Paw and Other Impediments to Grip Strength
Grip strength is an issue that can plague many an athlete, and Breaking Muscle has covered how to regain strength in your grip when the issue is straight-up weakness (with articles by many of the smart and ... Continue Reading
10 Articles and Videos to Help You Get to Grips with Grip Strength
Grip strength is fundamental to picking things up off the floor. If you can't grip it, you can't lift it. This is why the wiser powerlifters and strongmen pay such attention to strengthening their grip. ... Continue Reading
More Insight Into Developing Grip Strength: Your Hand Digits
Grip strength has been addressed previously on Breaking Muscle, and I hope you have gleaned something positive from those discussions. This time we'll take closer look at this topic with particular ... Continue Reading
Get a Grip: 3 Ways to Grip a Deadlift and How to Get Your Grip Stronger
The deadlift has long been touted as the King of Lifts. Whether you agree with that or not, it’s easy to see why it has gained such a reputation. For most, the deadlift is the lift for which you ... Continue Reading
Product Review: Versa Gripps
Building strength is tough enough. Trying to gain strength when your hands or grip are the limiting factor, however, can be simply too frustrating to manage. Versa Gripps have developed a product with your ... Continue Reading
