The Gripper Guide

Recently, at my GUS blog, I wrote a piece  about grip training and the various aspects and methods of grip training. As a follow up to that I created a guide to torsion spring grippers. I have creatively called this the Gripper Guide.

Anyone that knows me will know that I LOVE my grippers and grip training. This guide was created out of my obsession for crushing grip strength and is designed for new and experienced ‘grippers’. If you’re interested in learning about grip strength and grip training you can check out my article If You Can’t Grip It You Can’t Rip It and if you want to bring your crushing grip to the next level, or even want to start using a gripper, check out my Gripper Guide.

Joe Weir

Have a Home Gym? Beware. Cheap Plates May be Irregular

Just heard from a trainee who is out of the country (his home country) so is working out at another gym.

He had missed a deficit deadlift attempt of 405 and he was disappointed since he felt he had it in the bag. Well that’s normal, of course. Missing lifts is normal I mean. And being disappointed.

But turns out it wasn’t 405 he missed. It was 415. For those of you not familiar with strength traning..yes, that is a huge difference.

In this instance it was because of the conversion of kilograms to pounds and some other things that I didn’t quite follow but it reminded me of something I should warn people about.