how to improve grip?

[hassan]

my grip is weak.i cannt lift more than 170 lbs.how to improve grip cause it is affecting my deadlifts?

[Xecutioner]

I've always wondered the same thing myself. However, I figgured that through the constant use of weights that are heavy to me, it would improve on it's own. I would always try to hold on longer than I did the last time I was having an issue with a particular exercise and it's paying off.

[davie]

More forearm work.
OR
Buy sum 'grippers' unlike forearm work that works your grip secondary, grippers work ur grip directly and hit the forearm muscles secondary.

davie

[trulytoned]

straps, chaulk

[bald]

switch hands once in a while

[Geo]

straps

you're stupid

[UGMT]

heavy dumbbell shrugs

[UGMT]

almost frgt and heavy farmers walks that should build some strength up

[g0ddang]

i agree with others. juss keep at it. your grip will improve on its own.
what i do sometimes is one week i'd DL with both palms facing inside to improve my grip, and then use alternate hand grips the next week to get them heavy DL's in..

[XS]

1. Train your grip/forearms 3 x week directly.  Chalk
2. NEVER EVER USE STRAPS AGAIN!!!!!!!   Chalk
3. Dead hangs at the end of every workout for 2 full months.  Max hangtime till your fingers peel off the bar. Back-off to Leg and Back day only.  Chalk
4. Chalk
5. Did I mention train your grip often?  Chalk

Seriously - keep a good quality gripper in your car, under your bed, in your back-pack for school and one in your Scooby-Doo lunchbox. Chalk

Go talk to a brick layer about forearms and grip strength. High frequency - High Intensity - Did i mention chalk?

Xs

[XS]

This is too good not to bump.

[XS]

ONE MORE TIME!!!!!! 

Last time promise.....

[Overload]

1. Train your grip/forearms 3 x week directly.  Chalk
2. NEVER EVER USE STRAPS AGAIN!!!!!!!   Chalk
3. Dead hangs at the end of every workout for 2 full months.  Max hangtime till your fingers peel off the bar. Back-off to Leg and Back day only.  Chalk
4. Chalk
5. Did I mention train your grip often?  Chalk

Seriously - keep a good quality gripper in your car, under your bed, in your back-pack for school and one in your Scooby-Doo lunchbox. Chalk

Go talk to a brick layer about forearms and grip strength. High frequency - High Intensity - Did i mention chalk?

Xs

Bump...good stuff.

my grip strength increased fast once i ditched the straps and added farmers walks. chaulk is your best friend on back day, alternate your grip on deadlifts and NEVER use straps or gloves.

i have a gripper in my car and on my coffee table at home. my girl thinks i'm crazy when at every commercial break i see how many reps i can do with the grippers. sometimes i see how long i can hold it shut.

my friend has never lifted weights in his life and he has insane grip strength and huge forearms...he's a commercial electrician who uses his hands all day to pull large wire and bend all kinds of wire and metal with hand tools.

 

[big E]

pinch holds with plates 3x 60 seconds
pinch hold curls 3x 8-12 reps
hangs on a chin up bar with db 3x 30-60 seconds
rope pull ups 3x 8-12 use db for extra weight.

I do this routine alot for mine and it helps me greatly in Wrestling/ bjj/mma

[BG27]

Ivanko Super gripper.

[robmeister]

squeeze a pink rubber ball, or tennis ball until it hurts! or, just do what i do sometimes...have a guy you think is about the same strength as you shake hands with you, and squueze the shit out of his hand until you f'in crush it!

[JOHN MATRIX]

get grippers.
or just hold a heavy dumbell for as long as you can.
or pinch a plate as long as you can.

[Deadpool]

what happens when you don't switch hands:

[Bear03]

This is too good not to bump.

Agreed.  Chalk also has the benefit of being the most hardcore-looking thing in the gym, when you got a little blood and chalk on your hands/shins/thighs, etc.  I think your best bit of advice was to avoid straps and train grip really often.

[KSA]

Grip tools at www.ironmind.com

[bmacsys]

Ivanko Super gripper.

Captains of Crush.

[Oliver Klaushof]

my grip is weak.i cannt lift more than 170 lbs.how to improve grip cause it is affecting my deadlifts?

haha

[bmacsys]

my grip is weak.i cannt lift more than 170 lbs.how to improve grip cause it is affecting my deadlifts?

You can't deadlift more than 170 lbs. because the bar pulls out of your hands?

[JUSTJAXX]

some of my suggestions have been mentioned already but are worth stating again:

do your deadlifts with an overhand grip

do deadlift holds inside a rack, til failure

do reverse barbell curls and wrist curls with a towel wrapped around the bar (or sponges), making for a thicker bar and to provide some grip resistance

do wrist curls with the bar going down to your fingertips

take advantage of the various other methods out there, dyna-flex gyro ball, gripmaster, wrist roller, grippers, even squeezing a tennis or racquetball works

and yeah, STOP USING STRAPS