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Heavy Grips by Heavy Sports | 
| Brand: Heavy Sports
Category: Sports
Buy New: $14.95 - $25.26
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ASIN: B0007D5H8K
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Product Description
640784 Features: Developed for athletes who want to increase their grip strength to Heavy Grips were specifically designed to build superior hand strength Made in 50-pound increments from 100-pounds to 350-pounds so that you can train your grip similar to training any other bodypart to by increasing resistance The grips are made of cast aluminum with a knurling finish to provide an excellent grip Specifications: Material: aluminum
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Great gripper but 100# is too weak, get the set November 12, 2007
Douglas W. Schmale (East coast, USA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Five stars for quality and appearance. Good knurling. This is a very attractive and seemingly well built gripper. At "100#" though this is pretty weak. I have never trained my grip before and have popped my knuckles all my life. As most men go, my hands are not that strong for shaking and crushing. If you are interested in grip training than the odds are that you've done a fair amount of exercise otherwise and if that's the case, you can rep this thing outside of its range of usefulness. It is much easier than the workforce or pony brand spring clamp from home depot which are obviously not designed for grip training.
After buying this, getting it in the mail and seeing my wife close it a few times (she is no strong woman) I ordered the next three in line. At this point I have nearly enough invested in them to have bought the whole 1000-350 set outright with shipping. I that seems like too much money to spend and you are serious about starting grip training then SAVE UP! Regardless of what you may have read, these are good grippers. You can get six of these shipped for th price of three IM CoC gripppers and if hand strength is what you're after (not "I closed the #..." bragging rights) then buy the set. While you're waiting to accumulate the dough, do some finger curls, pinch holds and roller work to prepare yourself for the crush training to come.
One last thing, if you're looking for a single gripper and have never handled one before (a real one I mean) then it will be impossible to gauge your perfect starting gripper. I would suggest that if you are a man who dealifts, does pull-ups or any other heavy back exercise w/o wraps then the 200# would be the one to get. It may be too tough to close at first for some, but shouldn't take long. Do partials and negatives until you can. It's better to get a gripper that's a little too hard then one that's too easy. The 100# is too easy. Don't waste your time with anything less than the 200# unless you buy the set, then the 100 and 150 become EXCELLENT training tools to warm up and acclimate your hands to the loads that they will be responsible for crushing.
I hope that this helped someone and appologize for the length.
Start with this one May 13, 2008
Jesse (USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Last Christmas I made the mistake of getting the 200 lb one as my starter. I had no idea what these were like and how much resistance they really gave and I didn't want to get something I could easily do so I figured 200 would be a good bet. I was wrong. 200 was too much for me to start.
So I ordered the 150, and it is great. I do not recommend starting with the 100 if you are a guy. The 150 provides a good amount of resistance as a good starting gripper. But if I it was any less it would feel pretty weak. Since the difference between the 150 and the 200 feel VERY significant, I can't imagine how lame the 100 would be for a guy to start out with, as 150 feels just right.
Obviously, you won't get much use out of these things once you progress past them as they are non-adjustable, which is why it is important to make sure to get enough resistance. If you are someone who happens to know they have GOOD, ABOVE AVERAGE grip, then get the 200. Me-- I believe I have average to SLIGHTLY above average, and therefore the 150 works just perfect. The 200 was just too much to start with. I just got the 150 a week ago and figure I'll be ready for the 200 in about a month and a half or so.
excellent grip April 15, 2006
Zheng Cheng (Boston, MA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the best heavy grip series I've used.
I'm a college weightlifter and tennis player. My coach from both teams have strongly recoomended them to me. I'm really happy now, I can crush your hand right away.
Wrist Exerciser June 16, 2007
Rodney Stanfield
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great quality, a friend immediately bought the entire set.
tougher then expected... it's really strong July 21, 2008
Roman Hanchevici
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This grip is for advanced/ real strong people who have very strong hands already... Didn't expect it to be that strong. I would recommend this product to others.
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