One of my top goals for 2011 is to certify on the Captain of Crush 3.5 gripper. This requires me to close a brand new out of the package 3.5 with a credit card set in front of a selected judging official.
There is no room for error. You must completely OWN the gripper before attempting certification if you want success. Every miss takes a heavy toll.
My strategy will be the same as my preparation when I certified on the #3 Captain of Crush last year.
There are many things I do differently than other grip athletes, and of the more interesting ones is my reliance on high volume and high frequency training.
My weekly volume has dramatically increased over the last few months. A notable example- on Saturday I did 437 reps with level 12 on the vulcan in 20 minutes, old best was 323 in 19. My highest levels are seeing many more reps now. Here are a few videos.
Level 15 for 15 reps
Level 16 for 6 reps
Level 17 for 10 reps
I am enjoying both increased maximum strength, more endurance, a better set technique, and much more muscle tissue through this practice.
Naturally every set is tested, to include type of gripper, resistance, stance, and rest times as demonstrated in Grip and Rip 2.1.
Are you interested in adding grip training to your program but don’t know where to start? Pick up Industrial Strength Grip Vol 1 today and learn how to add this killer advantage to your program.
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Good stuff, man. I’ve been rocking light gripper work lately and it is paying off.
I thought back about you saying something along the lines of not being in the right state enough to train 1-2RM loads consistently (all aside if it tests well).
My technique/set is improving and volume is feeling better and better. Since the reps are higher it is giving me more opportunity to test stances as well. Right foot in an anterior position and a few degrees laterally is testing better than a standard stance lately.
Very cool.
Adam,
So you are saying that the hands and grip work don’t follow their own set of physiologic rules? You mean overload via volume works for them too? Ah crap….. hahha.
Keep up the great work!
Rock on
Mike T Nelson PhD(c)
Madness, I know! For some reason the grip community is Extremely confused on how to do this, but they will wait to act. My recommendation doesn’t mean shit unless I close #4 or something like that…
Haha, Most tend to only look at the end result and then when someone achieves that, it goes up again.
You don’t know grip until you can close a 2, 3, 3.5 and now it is a 4.
The key factors to look at are 1) what are their goals 2) the RATE of progress towards their goals since everyone starts at a different point.
If someone has not made progress towards their main goal in several months, that is not a good sign; even if they are are already “strong’.
Keep up the great work Adam! People are slowly starting to listen.
Rock on
Mike T Nelson PhD(c)
Stop guessing and start testing, here is how to do it
http://www.extremehumanperformance.com/home.php
Adam do you have any tips for starting to work in this direction. In the past I did a ton of reps on a #2 level gripper when trying to close the #3 and it didn’t help me much so I was obviously doing something wrong. Does the high volume stuff work best if your doing at least 1 heavy gripper workout per week? I guess I’m confused on how to implement the higher reps for gripper stuff. Thanks in advance