Sunday - 11/30

7AM - Snow and Ice on the way

Many pullups with Iron Gym and other crap.

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinching - w/ chains + PlateMates
Left - PDA Blobette Pinching
Brookfield stick levering.

Call me fucking nuts, I think, I'm ordering the new Rolling Thunder.

Saturday - 11/29

7AM

Many pullups. This Iron Gym is turning into the buy of the year.

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinching w/ PlateMates
Left - PDA Blobette pinching

Hands pumped during the pullups. Left was completely fatigued with the blobette.

And now for some James Henderson Bench Pressing. 495x6 600x3

Thursday - 11/27

Merry Thanksgiving

Went into work at 4AM to futz with something.

8AM

Many pullups
Other stuff

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinching +PlateMates
Left - PDA Blobette Pinching
Levering

Tuesday - 11/25

5AM

Usual warmups.
Many pullups

Grip Training

Right - Plate pinching +Platemates
Left - PDA Blobette pinching.
Brookfield stick lever work

Sore from weekend. Moved through this quickly.
Cellar cold. Plates "stung".

Sunday - 11/23

7AM

Many pullups
and other stuff.

Grip Training
Right - Plate Pinching - Chains + Platemates
Left - PDA Blobette
Levering
45 degree hypers

Saturday - 11/22

7AM
Fucking too cold to hit the hypers in the garage.

Many pullups with "Iron-Gym".

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinching + PlateMates
Left - PDA Blobette pinching
Brookfield stick lever work.

The Iron Gym, surprisingly, works pretty well. I picked it up for 30 bucks at Dick's Sporting Goods. Be sure to use it in a strong doorway. I'm about 230 pounds, and feel confident with it.

Thursday - 11/20

Worked too many fucking hours this week.

5AM

Been using the Iron-Gym doorway chin bar all week.

Grip Training - Moved quick, too fatigued from work and lack of sleep.

Right - Plate pinching
Left - PDA Blobette pinching
Lever work
Dragged too much fucking garbage to the curb, in the snow.

Tuesday - 11/18

Snow!
45 degree hypers/Reverse Hypers
Doing pullups nearly every day.

Grip Training
Sore from the weekend

Backed off, short rests.

Right - Plate pinching
Left - PDA Blobette pinching
Brookfield leverage stick

Sunday - 11/16

7AM

45 Degree Hypers
Reverse Hypers

Shoulder work

Grip Training

Right - Plate pinching - w/chains & PlateMates
Left - PDA Blobette Pinching

PLATE PINCH TIP

Our local Home Depot has a variety of chains up to 3/8 inch. Any of them
will easily fit through the hole on an Olympic plate. Depending on what you
use you should be able to get multiple chains through the hole. This makes for grate micro
loading. For fatter chains, simply get some strong epoxy coated magnets, then attach your
5/8 inch chain pices to each side of the plate. These MAGNETS work great. The magnets should be placed right at the hole overlapping a bit on the empty space. This will make removing them easy.

Why the chains? Many of you may have discovered that is it easier to pinch objects off the
ground with 2 hands, then let go and hold/pinch the implement fairly confidently. But breaking the object off the ground with the single hand is a ball buster. The chains will allow you to work on breaking the object from the ground, then quickly get heavier as you approach lockout. This works.

Saturday - 11/15

7AM - Rain
45 Degree Hypers
Reverse Hypers

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinching
Left - PDA Blobette Pinching
Brief. Lower arms sore. Everything felt "big".

A Pretty Good Gripper Close Instructional Video

This cat looks to to be a member of our beloved grip forum.
He closes a Heavy Grips 350 in the video. Which Is much more than we see
the "Fictional Hand" people ever do in their incessant SPAM emails. ;)

Lee Hayward

Thursday - 11/13

5AM - Fucking Rain.

45 Degree Hypers
Reverse Hypers

Shoulder work

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinching w/ chains
Left - PDA Blobette Pinching
Levering

Best ever base strength with PDA Blobette. Still a bit sore though.

What is it with these "Old Time Strongman" practitioners who have to constantly remind us how when they tear a fucking phonebook, they do it the "hard way", then their tear looks just like any other tear?

Tuesday 11/11 - Veterans Day

530AM - 45 Degree Hypers -> Reverse Hypers
Fucking cold out.

Grip Training
Right - Plate Pinching
Left - PDA Blobette Pinching
Leveraging
Backed off, sore from the weekend. Plates "stinging" cold.

Image from the History Channel

Sunday - 11/9

7AM

45 Degree Hypers
Reverse Hypers

Weight workout

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinching w/ Chains. Using 5/8" chain magenttically attached to each plate.
Left - PDA Blobette Pinching

Leverage work as usual to keep elbows partially healthy.

Saturday - 11/8

6AM

45 Degree Hypers
Reverse Hypers

Grip Training - Been a tad sore all week.

Right - Plate Pinching - with chains + PlateMates
Left - PDA Blobette

Breezed through.

Thursday - 11/6

5AM

45 degree hypers - Reverse Hypers
Shoulder work. As you may have noticed, we will no longer be posting any details
of workouts that are not grip specific. We have not slacked off. This is a fucking
GRIP blog.

Grip Training

Right - Plate pinching with chains attached.
Left - PDA Blobette Pinching

Medium workout. Still a bit sore.

How is it that certain legends keep digging up York 50 blobs that weigh nearly 54 pounds and
are "wider" than the ones the rest of the us poor grip fucks have?

Tuesday - 11/4

5AM - Double Fuck Daylight Savings Time.

45 Degree Hypers
Reverse Hypers

Grip Training

Sore from weekend. Strength off by 10%. Backed off and coasted.

Sunday - 11/2

Fuck Daylight Savings Time

7AM
45 degree Hypers/Reverse Hypers

Shoulder work

Grip Training

Right - Plate Pinching w/ chains + PlateMates
Left - PDA Blobette Pinching

Plate rotations
Leverage work

Fingertips all calloused.

Saturday - 11/1

530AM

45 degree hypers, reverse hypers

Grip Training

Right - Plate pinching w/ chains through holes + PlateMates
Left - PDA Blobette Pinching

Plate rotations or as some call them "Around The Worlds"

Who else is getting weary of the pseudo intellectual "bending is not about grip" arguments
perpetuating our beloved grip forum. ;)