Life of a Student

So recently, I’ve taken a couple of proactive steps toward increasing my overall back strength. I recognized that grip strength was a limiting factor in my back training - during pullups, my grip was giving out far before my back did.

Solution: The Captains of Crush Trainer Gripper

I ordered this gripper thinking that it would be easy (given my few years of resistance training). It was anything but that. My first experience with it involved not being able to close the gripper even one time with my left hand, and only being able to close it 4 times in my right hand.

Now, I’m up to 8 to 9 reps on the my right hand, and I can bang out 4 reps with my left hand. My pullup ability has increased accordingly - I can now do 21 straight, as opposed to 15-16 before (with my grip failing at the end).

In a later post, I will talk about the other step I took that greatly increased my ability to do consecutive pullups.

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