Jacked up shoulders is the second thing I thought of. Wonder why it helped your shoulders? Any ideas?Originally Posted by Paul Sharp
Oh, my first thought was "don't piss off Paul."
Edit just realized that may not be you. But I still wouldn't want to piss you off.
Last edited by MGW; 11-22-2016 at 09:03 PM.
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I've read that farmer's walks are great for messed up shoulders. Maybe there's something to the action of resisting against a load vs actively working the shoulder? Farmer's and Turkish get ups do seem to help my shoulder and neither is really a "shoulder exercise" per se.
For tennis elbow-like stuff I got great results using a Therabar. You can google it, but basically you hold it in the messed up hand, twist it with the other hand, and release the tension with the messed up one. Sort of the reverse of twisting a motorcycle throttle.
Has anyone used something like Fat Gripz? Gym doesn't have fat bars but I wonder if those might be worth a try just to mix things up.
That's not me, I'm pretty easy going. Eric is a little more..., excitable?
I think the action of stretching and strengthening is what helped. I'm not 100% on that, but one of the things I picked up from the Donnie Thompson guys was to do more hanging from chinning bars to help my shoulders and that has really helped. Their thoughts are it is a combination of stretching and strengthening that's happening when we hang from the bar.
"There is magic in misery. You need to constantly fail. Always bite off more than you can chew, put yourself in situations where you don't succeed then really analyze why you didn't succeed." - Dean Karnazes www.sbgillinois.com
All the individual gear and methods work here. I have tried many of them, especially those connected with progressive resistance. IMHO, for those who "only" want to work on proper hand strength for shooting, I have found nothing to increase what I call tensile grip strength (critical for shooting - again, IMHO) - better than the Gripmaster, which I had started a thread about recently. It's particularly good for not making the small hand/finger joints inflamed, something very important for me as I have pretty significant osteoarthritis.
Holding Drills are quite effective in building grip strength and endurance.
I can close a 2 with either hand. I think COC grippers ok for occasionally measuring grip strength, and in hindsight are a pretty bad idea for grip strength training.
Grip force fat grips are great for grip training. Loosely wrapping an old T shirt around a bar will work too.
http://www.roguefitness.com/grip4orce
Edited: Grip4orce for pulling, Fatgripz for pressing. If you plan on benching and can only afford one get Fatgripz.
Wrist rollers are often overlooked, but are good for working the flexors and extensors.
Gada mace training is great for the grip and shoulders. I use a Kabuki Stength Shoulderok, but that's a lot of coin and DIY stuff will work well too.
Overhead carries, waiter carries, and combination suitcase/waiter carries, will work the grip and help build stability throughout the body and probably be more useful for developing the body for recoil management than exercises that focus on just grip strength.
Last edited by txdpd; 11-24-2016 at 11:37 AM.
Whether you think you can or you can't, you're probably right.
Great link - thanks for posting it.
#2 with each hand but I've gotten away from CoC lately. It's becoming too easy to overdo it.
I can close a #2 both left & right handed. I have two cousins that are Mash Monster #5 certified beasties.
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You find these work well? I have developed some tennis elbow that I would like to make go away. I row a lot so my grip strength is already pretty good and despite what some think good technique actually stretches the arms rather than over uses them.
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