With regards to strength training, building a solid grip is conceivably one of the most neglected areas. In fact, it is no more trained in most cases. It pays a huge benefits to other areas of fitness and its strength if such a little bit of grip exercise could be attempted. For beginners, poor hands grip is an immensely constraining variable with regards to other exercises for example, deadlifts, pull ups, thrusts, lines, bench and so on. Thus, when your hand grip strength gets enhanced, it enables you to go with other lifting exercises.
Since, it's impossible that you will ever have strong hands without a strong body, yet there are lots of strong bodies without strong hands. So, it is important to have a strong hands along with the strong body. Also it is very simple to do this exercise. Just hold your hand out in front of you and make a fist. Now squeeze your fist as hard as you can and you should feel all the muscles in your arm and even your core tighten up as well.
Furthermore, there are several types of grip exercises that all train different muscle groups. Here, we will go over the most basic types of these exercises:
- Crush Grip: Crushing is the action of closing your hand around something and squeezing. This would be what you do every time you hold onto a dumbbell.
- Pinch Grip: Pinching is the action of holding onto an object and squeezing with just your fingertips and not letting it drop. It can also be the act of pinching something together with just your fingertips.
- Supporting Crush Grip: This is the act of supporting an object with a crush grip where you support most of the load with your fingers. Common examples are carrying a dumbbell, deadlifting or even carrying your grocery bags by the handle.
- Open Crush Grip: this is when you are using a crush grip but your fingers don’t quite touch or overlap. Fat bar or awkward object holds are great to train open crush grip. The real life carry over here would be an easier time opening jars (among other things) when your fingers are spread open. Having a strong open crush grip really comes in handy!
- Hand Extension: This technically isn’t a grip exercise in every sense of the word but it trains from the synergistic muscles to the ones you use for grip. This keeps a healthy muscle balance in your hands and wrists, which aids in preventing injury and overuse of those muscle groups. They will also help your actual grip strength improve!