My progress with grip training is accelerating faster and faster now.
A year ago I offered the world the first taste of Gym Movement. I shot 5 youtube videos which totaled several thousand views.
The criticism came in fast.
“That won’t work”
“You’re just stretching”
“You still have to have a program”
“it’s just a warm up”
From there, things changed.
“Well…sure that works for beginners but what about advanced athletes?”
“well…it will slow down, those PRs won’t come forever”
Ok.
Am I to be considered an advanced grip athlete?
Repping out 300 lbs on the 2″ Vertical Bar
I continue to add weight, reps, and sets every time I put my hand on it.
I have now used the Gym Movement Protocol for over a year. PR every day for over 365 days. I heard at day 365 the gains may stop…they keep coming.
“You can’t work on several goals, it won’t work”
Ok.
I am making big progress on my Two hands Pinch, Grippers, V Bar, axle, pull ups, , snatch, plate curls with my strongergrip lever block, KB snatch, hand balancing, kettlebell juggling and pressing. All while losing fat and improving body comp each month.
You see, people make statements like those above because they are too ignorant to try out something different. They make claims like that because they have not improved in a long time. It’s easier to tell you how improving is not important than it is for them to live what they sell.
I will exceed my World Record of 331 in competition this next go of Worlds Strongest Hands on 16 Oct 2010.
I will improve my competition placing, and move up my Two Hand Pinch, Vulcan, as well as Axle DL.
I can do all of these things because I continue to follow my body, and I do not allow anyone else to control me.
I allow others to make suggestions, recommendations, and express their opinion.
I make all calls on reps, sets, weights, days on/days off, rest times…My body has to do the work, makes sense to allow it to show me the way.
You have a nervous system designed to run your body.
Why let someone else try to run your body?
No matter how skilled a coach is, they are not more qualified than you are to run your body.
The coach makes suggestions, they make recommendations, they provide new ideas– all to be tested.
This is what separates The Movement from everyone else. We are not always right. In fact when it comes to telling you how to run your shit we just want you to put things to the test and make your own call. If your training is fucking up your body I am not going to make you change it. In fact I may sit back to watch you destroy yourself, if you are not willing to listen to your body.
We coach people by asking questions, not giving answers.
We coach by offering options, not making demands.
We coach by education, not indoctrination.
Our goal is to elevate others to be our equals, not set up silly rank and file structures.
This month I am releasing two new products which will take your training farther than it ever has before.
I am going to teach you how to build strong hands.
The kind of hands that bend steel, rip decks of cards easily, shred phone books, and crush heavy grippers effortlessly.
Would you like to do this?
Do you need a new trainer?
Would you like to be coached by someone who is getting better daily, or some has-been who used to be good?
Do you want to learn from someone who is always learning new things, or the person who “knows it all”
Comment today and I will offer you 20% distance coaching right now.
I am fed up with people spending money on training and not getting the results they deserve.
Comment right now, and tell me what your goals are. I will show you how to get them faster, safer, and easier.
It is your time to experience results based training.
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My goal is to learn how to bend steel with bare hands or with minimal wraps. Not sure how to do it without destroying my hands. I don’t need anymore help with my glute problem, it’s getting fixed fast and furiously. So yeah, only the steel bending thing gives me trouble.
Those people who are stubborn and repeat the same mistakes over and over deserve no pity, no matter where they fail at. Including me!
How much bending are you doing now?
Maybe once per weel. because it tests well that infrequently.
*week
You can only make progress as fast as you can make progress. Just keep bending.
Tomas,
If once a week is testing well then once a week is what you need. I added 20lbs to my deadlift only doing it once every seven to ten days.
Find movements that will help build your bending strength and test those. Adam could tell you better than I could what that would be.
David and Gary, I’m aware of those points.
I’m waiting for my multi-functional strength tool that acts as a leveraging hammer for one part from Ryan Pitts.
Great, Johnny Cash. That’s a nice change from all the metal. Cash is the man.
Well, my goals are to become a good handbalancing starting with holding a free handstand for a minute.
Also, I’ve been practicing my kettlebell juggling and would like to get proficient with not only the 16kg, but the 24 as well.
Well on my way to both of these.
I also just want to look great nekkid.
Logan can give you good starting points and thing to test for hand balancing.
I’ve got a random addiction to wanting to tear cards. I was just using the over under technique for awhile as it was the one I could actually get a starting tear with, but recently I’ve been switching to the choke and peel after the initial tear and I seem to be a lot stronger with that method of tearing, now I just have to figure out how to start the tear in the choke and peel method and go from there.
The progress you see in yourself from the Gym Movement style of training is ridiculously self-motivating. Added 15lbs to my pinch deadlift today, sure that’s only 70lbs, (2x35s), but there was a time when I couldn’t even get that off the floor. I can’t wait to get 2x45s. It feels good to make progress, and even better to be associated with a group that is in the science of better.
I am looking forward to your products.
I find it hard at times balancing various modalities(increasing pullups,lifting heavier sand bags,improving grip to name a few) and making progress simultaneously without burning out.
Deadlift 3XBW (attacking that from both ends right now)
Plate Curl 35lbs (25)
Pick up my 30lb hex block (25lb block 27.5lb blob)
Close the COC2 (COC1.5)
Overhead Press 180lb (155lbs)
Pull-up +32kg (+28kg)
Bottoms-up Press 32kg (28kg right, 24kg left)
600lb Rack Pull (563lbs)
it’s been an interesting year Adam. thank you for asking the right questions.
As far as the value of your coaching. My wrists were jacked up from carrying my screaming newborn around all of the time. I just mentioned it to Adam in an e-mail one day and he responded with three suggestions. I tried them, tested them and was out of pain in less than an hour.
I got to see a rough cut of one of Adam’s upcoming products last week. One tip from that video and I went from barely being able to close the COC1 to closing the COC1.5 at will now.
Strong little fucker you are.
David,
Getting stronger and littler every day.
Gripping as a sport doesn’t interest me- my interest would be in flexible, fast hands and strong wrists for martial arts training (specific to classical Japanese weapons).
My immediate goal is fixing my screwed up tendons (the ones crossing the wrist from the thumb- de quevain’s tendonitis, or something like that), and then strengthening them so I can actually start to do workouts other than leg work (kb swings, bw push movements, pull movements, they all end up jacking my wrist more). The rest I can handle (was exploring and testing GM before my wrist went bad- it was from work, not training).
I will admit to occasionally (well, ok, far too often) being a lazy fucker when it comes to getting my ass moving, but I’m done with the pain and not being able to function well when I want and need to do so, and I’d prefer to not have to get shots cortisone derivatives or spend an extensive amount of time in PT.
I will say I have been floored by Dave D’s progress on his deadlift (and probably other lifts too). Whether it works for everyone, I can’t say, but it’s obvious that GM as a training method works really well for a lot of people.
My goals:
gain 20lbs of muscle *Over the next 9 months*
Bench 200lbs for atleast one rep by June next year
20+ chin ups in a row
Learn Hand Balancing
Improve my Sprinting Speed
Run Under a 12 minute 2 mile… Ideally by next august under 11 minutes
Seems reasonable. If you want to gain mass just frickin’ eat. Lots of good quality food. Combined with your bench and chin goal you will add slabs of meat quickly.
No tics for one month. It will happen in 2011.
And then some!