As climbers, we all want more grip strength. Right?
Do you get the feeling that even though you’ve been doing a lot of climbing, your grip strength doesn’t seem to be improving the way you’d like it to?
“While gains in grip strength come quickly during your formative days, it’s not uncommon for grip strength to plateau after a few years of regular climbing.
While a steady diet of steep climbing (and getting pumped) will lead to continuing adaptive gains in grip endurance, most climbers discover that there’s little further change in grip strength. It’s a dilemma that leaves many passionate climbers perplexed and thinking: why doesn’t my grip strength improve despite all the climbing I’m doing?” -Eric Hörst
This article from Eric Hörst’s site, nicros.com, can help you improve your grip strength! He shares three exercises that, with the help of a weight vest or belt, create a hypergravity training effect for building grip strength.
As Eric says:
“The long-term benefits of such hypergravity training will be a new found über strength that, in returning to the rock at bodyweight, provides you with a crushing grip like never before! “
The exercises involve overweight bouldering, overweight fingerboarding, and overweight system boarding. He specifically describes the workouts involving each style of exercise, and their benefits.
Read the article in full by clicking below and start building your grip strength!
CLICK HERE: Nicros: 3 Exercises for a Crushing Grip!
(photo courtesy of nicros.com)
