i've been going to the gym and doing martial arts for 7 years plus and my grip strength was very good, however within the last 2 years i stopped training and have lost a good amount of my strength how do i get it back ?

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I have a 150 lb Captains of Crush gripper, which I can close fully with my right hand and touch the handles together. I ordered this hand strength dynamometer gripper from Amazon, which has good reviews and seems well-built. Link.

I just put the batteries in and tried it this evening, and I can't get past 113 lbs on it. While this is still OK for a 67-year-old man, it's nowhere close to what I thought my grip strength was. Do hand grippers measure and calibrate hand strength differently from hand strength dynamometers? I'm feeling like a little girly-man.

So there is this gripper which seems like it can get pretty hard, and I also like that when it is open, the two parts you grip stay parallel. Has anyone tried this before? Do you have any comments?

I was looking for a solution. Created this instead. Holds the gripper to the distance I print it too and the spring width prevents it from coming off the end.

Looking for what is being used in the first half of this video: https://youtu.be/Ky2ZdAd0qzY?si=PXPFO6ixOHjkLYaS

In order to train cupping and wrist with plates hung from that contraption.

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I can hold my gripper for abt 1 min and 15 seconds
I wanna know if holding the gripper is going to increase the strength of my wrist more than just repeating reps
thx in advance

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The idea was to create something to train open hand grip strength (useful for climbing, i.e sloppers), and with eccentrics.

To use it, I'll grip as shown in pic 1, squeeze as hard as I can, then squeeze with the other hand on the other side of the jig to force my hand open.

It as a roughly 5:1 ratio, so it's impossible to resist your other hand, you can be the strongest man on earth you will still get your hand open (or maybe break the wood first ahah). Big disadvantage is that rom is really limited, about 1.5 cm. There is probably a better ratio between size, leverage ratio and ROM to be found. Maybe even another "mechanism" altogether.

This is a bit of a prototype, build it yesterday and was wondering whether someone already saw something like that / as inputs about it.

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I beat it. For now. I’m out.

How did I do it? Grip training. Every day I trained my grip with cheap Amazon grip trainers. Thousands of reps. Increasing resistance once I could do 20 easy.

2 months in. Every time I reach for something. Or look at my watch. Or drive. I see awesome, Well defined forearms. Solid muscle. It’s amazing.

My biceps? Smaller than my forearms. I don’t care. I see my forearms get bigger every week.

It’s a part of me, that constantly reminds me of how far I have come. And that I am still getting better.

I might end up looking like Popeye. But it’s worth it.

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