Rated at 182.5 lbs on the RCG. This is now the highest rated gripper I have closed.
Captain of Crush 3.5 Close
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The Pursuit Of Strength In All Its Forms
Rated at 182.5 lbs on the RCG. This is now the highest rated gripper I have closed.
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“The gains will stop coming in a year.”
Dude, that’s HORSEPOWER. Nice close.
that was a joke to you
Fantastic close Adam! That’s a beastly gripper man. And it felt as hard as the MM3 to me by the way. So you’re ready for that too.
Aaron C is sending me a 189 SE next month to try out. I am pretty excited.
Adam,
What is the RCG? Is Ironmind just way off in that they list the #3.5 as 322.5lbs?
Hey Steve.
RGC is a way of rating grippers by hanging weight off the END of the handle until the handles touch. That “pounds at close” number is the rating. It’s not a very perfect system, but slightly better than “Oh, this gripper feels a little harder than that one.”
Ironmind rated their grippers in a similar way, but hung the weight on the MIDDLE of the handle so it takes more weight to close the gripper. That’s the biggest difference. Other manufactures use torque ratings or “inch-pound” ratings or whatever they want.
Any gripper ratings from any source, RGC or directly from the manufacturer, should be taken with a grain of salt. They have some use, but are generally not comparable to each other. They might as well be names. Like instead of “HG300″ they could have called it “The Crippler.”
RGC ratings were meant to be comparable to each other, and they generally are, but do not tell the whole story. For example, two grippers could both rate at 150lbs, but maybe one has really wide spread. That gripper will feel harder in the hand even though they technically have the same rating.
Very good explanation.
I’ll add it makes training grippers a lot simpler to have a value applied to all brands.
Plus it shows you how much they vary in difficulty.