Anybody have tips on improving grip strength? My hands are basically the most weak fragile thing on the planet...

Anybody have tips on improving grip strength? My hands are basically the most weak fragile thing on the planet. I do farmers walks and use ropes and such whenever possible, but I don't really see any improvement.

Standing rows work for me

Btw this might have been better in a QTDDTOT

Yeah I agree I just didn't see one and I am on mobile so I couldn't search catalog. Thanks for the tip though.

dildolift
pull-ups
also look into bouldering if you can, your wrist will scream and revolt in pain but it will all be worth it in the end

Grip strength takes a long while to build.

There's something else you have to think about. Of all of the things that you do but you don't see changing or getting better, grip strength is one of the most overlooked.

Your grip strength could be almost double what it was and you would probably never know because you use it so much and the changes in your day to day life are so minor.

WRAP ANY THICK CLOTH AROUND BARS (pullup, barbell, dumbell) FOR 1 OF YOUR SETS. DO IT FOR 3 DIFFERENT EXERCISES AND YOU'RE GOOD TO GO

>fragile
what are you italian?

Thanks, I will try all of this. All my gym bros I go with have callused manly hands and basically shit on me for having the hands of a small baby after all this time. I have the muscle for a pull up/chin up but my hands slip right off after 5-6

fingertip pushups
towel chinups
hanging from a bar

>I have the muscle for a pull up/chin up but my hands slip right off after 5-6
meaning you are not gripping properly
you sort of exist in the air, attached to the bar as if an apple to a tree, but you are not fighting the gravity, you are not gripping the bar with all your strength just so you can get that one last rep out.
Properly gripping the bar helps in almost any exercise - bench, ohp, pull-up, chin-up, barbell curls, you name it, as it allows, or I found it to allow me, to concentrate more strength into the movement and push more weight.

get a job in construction... brick layer, framing,

it probably does end up boiling down to me being retarded. I'll try tonight at the gym to grip differently/better and see how it goes.

Just go bouldering once a week and your hands will have calluses in no time.

One thing I know that helps with my pull-up is gripping it overhand, that is as in pic related.
But with chin-ups I do use the gripping thumb to, well, to grip the bar.

I have large hands. Does that affect gripping in lifts much?
Its useful for piano and a bitch for day to day babby objects.

forgot pic

BJJ

Heavy deadlift lockouts built my grip strength. I could do 700lb lockouts when I was only diddlying 450ish.

Ive never had grip be an issue though

I noticed that when I had to stop deadlifting because of a back injury, my grip strengt went down horribly.

When I started doing heavy ass Kroc rows, my grip strength came back.

Deadlifts and heavy Kroc Rows would be my advice. Because I did the Kroc Rows, my deadlifts went up to now that I can deadlift again.

use fat bars

makes gripoping easier

Good sleep is crucial.
Try pullups with either:

1. A towel or foam around the bar to make it thicker

2. Hang two towels from the bar, and grab the hanging bits like ropes to do your pullups

Another thing that made my grip go nuts is one handed/one armed pullups.
One handed are easier, grab the bar with one hand like you normally would.
Grip the wrist of that hand with your free hand.
Pull up.

Heavy deads, farmer's walks. Also, hookgrip

is dirty rice training a meme?

chinups
hammer curl

and ofc deadlifts

work all these in strenght and taste the progress

Start training Judo

I thank baste dog every day for my strong hand and forearm genes.

But I also think my stubborn refusal to use straps for anything else than shrugs has helped too.

Paused double overhand axle deadlifts (and using an axle in general)
Heavy farmer's walks, and I mean heavy. You need the actual implements (dbs are shit). What works for me is a few walks of ~20m, 1.25xbw per hand is a good standard to aim for

After doing chins, I do dead hangs. Just a pull up position, feet off the ground, and squeeze that bar like a motherfucker until your grip fails.

Only downside is that it makes you look like a retard who can't do pull ups as you're just hanging there with your arms shaking and spazzing while you try to keep your grip up.

also recommend this. it's still pretty cool if you think about it, teaches you to not give a fuck what other people think of you/you lose the urge to impress randoms

just squeeze the shit out of the bar on every excerise you do