Grip Endurance Training| OCR Preparation | Vermont Spartan Beast 2018

[@NoFate247]

How do you build that grip Strength and Endurance?

[@njsfer]

I am starting tomorrow after my fourth OCR race. Something was missing and I realized that it was grip strength... Can't wait to use your tips and go to my next race!

[@daleym4955]

farmers walks with fat grips

[@jjhorrynyc]

When I was a teenager, I had really good grip endurance and strength. LOL. Great video.

[@NoFate247]

@@jjhorrynyc LOL!!!!

[@Dusticron]

@@daleym4955 Alternatively, just work on a farm. Then you will get farmer strength.

[@michaelredding8992]

I have struggled to be able to train my grip effectively, I'm taking your advice to focus on finger strength, makes a lot of sense. Thank you

[@NoFate247]

Michael Redding I think you will be pleased with your pleased with your progress. Definitely let me know how it goes....what's your next race

[@michaelredding8992]

NoFate247 I'm getting ready for the super in Barrie MA. I have races almost every weekend in August. How do you keep training for the Killington beast but also allow for recovery before races?

[@jjjjjjj389]

Thanks for the tips! Just stumbled on your channel. Enjoying it so far!

[@NoFate247]

Glad you found me and hope it's helpful! Let me know if you have any OCR questions and maybe I can make a video for it (or just answer you outright)

[@NikolaTeslaEE]

Great video. I would add dead hangs for time. Try to increase your hang time, especially as you get closer to your race. Monkey bars at the playground too. Or build your own. Go back and forth until your hands/arms give out.

[@NoFate247]

Exactly

[@SandShark350]

Will walking a couple miles holding a 25 lb plate and switching hands every few min work?

[@NoFate247]

I'm sure that would help anyone's grip endurance!!!

[@ivangreenstein3693]

farmer carry with ketle bell , turkish getups and pullups in one workout?

[@NoFate247]

That'd do the trick I imagine. Farmers carrys are killer as well, especially with a KB handle

[@DERHOF2007]

Captains of Crush is not a company... That is what IRON MIND calls their gripper line up. Also in the short clip you showed of using the gripper you didn't do a single rep. The handles need to touch each other.

[@NoFate247]

Great points

[@vaagamundt4869]

Great video, thank you for this. Brilliant assessment of how to approach those grip obstacles. Something I have found to be extremely helpful on OCR's is getting 20' of small nylon rope and cutting it into short strands to make a Cat-o-nine tails with them. Create a loop by wrapping the upper section with electrical or gorilla tape that you can use to slide over pull-up bars for a tougher pull-up or dip bars for reverse rows. Because they move and are somewhat slippery really gives your hands a workout. Try to time yourself doing vertical dead hangs using them and your grip "endurance" will "strengthen" fast. Also, find a soccer goal at your local park or sports field, (this only works if the cross beam is square) and start at one end moving sideways to the opposite end using only your fingertips to hold you there (most of these you have little choice to do otherwise) when you get to one end try to go back the way you came, do this as many times as possible. You can use the same goal post to do burpee finger pull-ups too. do burpees but when you jump up latch onto the bar with your fingertips and pull yourself up, repeat that as many times as you can.

[@kellycrofts-johnson7285]

My primary method this last year has been doing dead hangs from various pullup bars and sometimes a climbing finger board.

[@NoFate247]

I like dead hangs and finger boards, they are harder than they look.

[@NikolaTeslaEE]

Please please … solve those Rubix Cubes.

[@NoFate247]

😂

[@barnacleboiii7181]

Dude you do realize your forearms are your fingers muscles right? There are no muscles in your fingers. Only tendons. Yes finger strength is forearm strength

[@coopertaft5542]

Tendons can be trained to be strong as well. Not at the same rate as muscles can, be they can be overloaded just like any other exercise

[@phuongly1932]

Thanks for the grip endurance tips. I will be training more seriously for my first Super and Beast. These exercises will come in handy.

[@NoFate247]

Thanks for the feed back! Let me know how they go

[@robertread6287]

Thanks so much for the tips. I'm preparing for my first TM. I hate seeing unsolved cubes in videos...

[@NoFate247]

Which TM are you doing? Def. come back and tell me how it went. Hopefully this vid gives you some good ideas on improving your grip!

[@robertread6287]

@@NoFate247 Sydney Australia. Recovering from a heart infection, so a TM in Nov is a perfect way to gauge my recovery

[@NoFate247]

I'd say you're recovered if you can bang out a TM! Well I want to hear how it goes, def. report back in after you demolish the thing.

[@smally8499234]

The military taught me a great exercise for grip strength, carrying a full (20kg) water jerry and walking for as long as possible. Rinse and repeat.

[@NoFate247]

That'll do it!!!

[@mattsully2238]

Weird question: with all the hanging training I've been doing, what tips do you have for dealing with hand callous rips?

[@NoFate247]

Keep them dry. If you have calluses file them down after a hot shower to keep them manageable

[@youtubecreators384]

I hear Spartans used to strengthen their grips by pulling weed with their bare hands.

[@NoFate247]

Must be similar to squeezing rice

[@youtubecreators384]

@@NoFate247 Is that how the samurais strenghtened their grips?

[@NoFate247]

Can't speak for Samurais. I know some rock climbers who've used that to come back from injury and it seemed to work well.

[@Dusticron]

Thanks dude, these are super essential to my goals. Keep these videos coming

[@NoFate247]

Glad it could help!

[@2815marionwood]

Straight dead hangs, first set 1 min long, rest 30 seconds and dead hang again, repeat again and again.

[@NoFate247]

Ruben Trigueros dead hangs are legit!!! Much harder than most tealize

[@quark4567]

This video was good so I looked at your channel. Dude all your other stuff looks like clickbait? What gives?

[@NoFate247]

How so, can you give an example

[@quark4567]

@@NoFate247The thumbnails at a glance looked a glitzier and more throwaway than I'd have expected - Pre workout Blaster Drink! Screech Dead! etc. I was just surprised, your very good grip vid had me expecting to see content more akin to AthleanX or Fitness faq. No disrespect intended good luck with it .

[@NoFate247]

Yeah, there isn't any click bait. If you watch the videos, the thumbnail and title and even description are all aligned with what the video is about. Screech dead is a video about not saving it for the trip back, the over-riding theme to my channel. So watch the videos and you'll see they aren't click bait

[@AquaLady153]

When you gonna put out another video like this?

[@NoFate247]

Probably soon....what were you looking for?