Increase Grip Strength With Captains-of-Crush Grippers

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Buy Captains of Crush on Amazon - http://amzn.to/2mIoZex Read the full article here - http://www.builtlean.com/2015/03/10/captains-of-crush-grippers-review/ Learn how Captains-of-Crush Grippers can help you increase your grip strength fast and how increasing grip strength is one of the fastest ways to increase overall body strength. Transcripts: MARC: Hi! if you're watching for the first time I'm Marc Perry, the creator of BuiltLean, which is your simple, efficient and science-based guide to fitness. Did you know that increasing your grip strength is one of the fastest ways that you can increase your strength? And that lack of grip strength is associated with poor health? I'll speak with my friend Jason Kapnick who's a successful powerlifter. And he shared with me some words of wisdom I want to share with you today. First, you'll never be stronger than your hands. Second, if you can't hold it, you can't lift it. Which I think is pretty powerful actually. So, how do you increase your grip strength? Today I'm gonna be showing you a hand gripper I've been using, called Captains-of-Crush, which I believe can help you improve your grip, and over all body strength substantially. Captains-of-Crush grippers were made by IronMind in the early nineties as an alternative to the plastic grippers your dad probably had when you're growing up. They are made of aircraft grade aluminum, and the handles are knurled, which means that they feel like metal sandpaper to maximize grip. They come in eleven different options, although the most popular core grippers are number 1, number 2, number 3 and number 4 which ranged from a 140 pounds of pressure to close all the way to 365 pounds of pressure. And number 4 has only been closed by 5 people in the world. It's not exactly easy. So, which ones should you buy? I remind the makers of Captains-of-Crush recommends a practice gripper to warm up your hands that you can close, and then a goal gripper which is the gripper you're trying to close. For men, I recommend the trainer to start, and that's going to be your practice gripper, although in the beginning it might be tough to close, and then number 1 is going to be your goal gripper. Number one requires a 140 pounds pressure, and the trainer, let me actually show you right here, the trainer is a 100 pounds of pressure. You can see the T on the bottom and then you can all see the number 1 on the bottom which I have in my hand right here. Number 1. Now, if you're looking to really increase your grip strength to the next level you can go for number 2 which requires 200 pounds pressure For women, you can start out with the guide which is about 60 pounds of pressure and then move to the sport as your goal gripper which requires 80 pounds of pressure to close. I do wanna also mention that if you have soft hands and you wanna keep soft hands, this grip is definitely not for you, they are definitely be tough on your hands, so that is I hope a fair warning. Okay, how do you actually close them? We know which ones you wanna buy, so keep in mind there've literally been books written about grip strength and there's even a book written about how to close Captains-of-Crush grippers. I'm going to share to you just a few quick tips. The first is, where you hold the gripper in your hand is really important to help you close it properly. You want the right leverage so you wanna kinda start out the gripper a little bit higher than you'd imagine in your palm, and you don't want it to be too low on your hands. Also, you want your pinky to be very close to the bottom of the gripper. You don't want it to be too high up. You wanna get the most leverage. So you can actually use your other hand to kinda close it a little bit, get it in place, and then you can squeeze it all the way closed. And you can hold it for a second. The idea is you wanna close the metal handles completely together and touch them, that's a close. Second, in order to close these effectively, you just need to practice. The more you practice, the better you're going to be so I recommend doing let's just say 5 a couple of times a day. So you do 5 total closes with your right and then 5 closes with your left, and then you do it again later in the day, or you just do it once a day whatever works with your schedule but the more you practice just the full close, and just hold it and release the faster you're gonna increase your grip strength. Lastly, is to do forced closes and negatives, and so right here I'm gonna take up the number 3. Number 3 requires like 280 pounds of pressure to close, this is like strongman territory, but if I close it on my own as far as I can I'm gonna use my other hand as an assistant close it helps increase the tension in your hand and builds up the strength even faster.