Increase Your Grip Strength to Improve Performance

I came across a guy who couldn’t manage to life heavy while doing deadlift and blamed it on loosing the weight due to bad grip. Well, of course I could make out.

How many times has your grip given out long before your strength in exercises, like heavy shrugs, deadlifts, etc?

By the way, this is how you can improve your Grip strength.

I strengthen the muscles involved with grip strength. I do heavy forearm curls and forearm reverse curls. I use a fat bar for shrugs, upright rows, and curls. I use an old fashioned gripper and just squeeze the heck out of it. I also do a lot of timed holds with dumbbells or whatever is awkward to hold and blow my grip up like that. I do competitive holds with my training partners. Who can hold on the longest? Basically, I use anything I think will help my grip get stronger.

The timed holds of dumbbells are an excellent grip builder. Try using a fatter bar also.