Captains of Crush Grippers: What They Are and How to Close Them by Randall J. Strossen J.B. Kinney Nathan Holle

Author:Randall J. Strossen, J.B. Kinney, Nathan Holle [Randall J. Strossen, J.B. Kinney, Nathan Holle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sports & Outdoors
ISBN: 0926888129
Published: 2012-09-24T20:00:00+00:00

Overall strength, age, body weight, and hand size

While there are certain predictable patterns among different feats of strength, strength is very specific in ways that are not readily apparent to people who aren’t immersed in this stuff. Thus, someone might note little correlation between what one can wrist curl and how he or she performs on a gripper and conclude that hand strength is something of an enigma, or think that a cheating lift on a grip machine is a good predictor of what he can do with a gripper, which also isn’t the case. There is no mystery here: different muscles or the same muscles used in different ways lend themselves to different results.

Thus, while it seems counterintuitive, closing these grippers can be pretty independent of your overall strength. Since our earliest days, IronMind has dealt with the strongest men and women on the planet, and we have customers with ferocious levels of overall strength who would be at around the midpoint on our grippers. On the other hand, we also have customers who have closed our No. 3 Captains of Crush grippers who would love to be able to squat 300 x 20 and some who might not even be able to do an honest deep knee bend with 300 for a single (and yes, we mean 300 pounds, not kilos). Strength really is a lot more specific than most people would guess.

Similarly, the relationship of age, body weight, and hand size is often different from what might seem intuitively obvious. Generally, most people will do their best lifting in their twenties to maybe their early thirties, and everything else being equal, bigger and heavier people lift more than smaller, lighter people. “Fine,” you say, “but now tell me something I don’t already know.”

Fair enough.

How about the fact that grip strength seems to be very atypical in these two regards: age and body weight seem to have little bearing on one’s performance compared to the major lifts. Thus, considering our list of people certified for closing our No. 3 Captains of Crush gripper, as of this writing, we have someone as young as 14 (Mike Sanderson) making the grade, as well as someone as senior as Green Bay Packer great Gale Gillingham, who was 55 years old at the time he was certified. As far as body weight goes, Jeff Maddy probably set the high water mark at 518 pounds, and just as you would expect, we do have a bunch of big guys on the list, but would you have predicted that we also have someone who was less than 150 pounds? Satohisa Nakada only weighed about 137 pounds at the time he was certified.

“But how about hand size?” you ask. “I have small hands, so I can never succeed at closing your toughest grippers.”

“Not so,” we reply and we tell people that Richard Sorin once sent us a plaster cast of his hand(!), perhaps to emphasize what he has always said about how his hands are not unusually large, especially when you consider that he’s about 6' 5-1/2" tall.

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