Captains of Crush Hand Gripper - No. 1
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Manufacturer: IronMind Enterprises, Inc.Brand: IronMind
Model: 1251
Product features:
- The gold standard for building and testing grip strength
- From IronMind, for 20 years the world leader in grip strength and hand health
- Premium materials and precision manufacturing--precise, durable, and competition-grade
- Available in ten different strengths--giving you a perfect fit
- Designed and manufactured in the USA
Sports reviews of Captains of Crush Hand Gripper - No. 1
Customer Review: From Trainer to 2.5 in 5 months
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
In the summer of 2009, I bought a cheap plastic hand gripper out of curiosity and used it for a few months at work. It was slightly hard at first but only after a few weeks, I was doing tens and hundreds of reps each day. I had absolutely no hand grip training prior to using this cheap plastic hand gripper.
But one day, the metal spring snapped while I was on the 1,234,567th rep. I knew I was getting stronger but this was shocking because I just destoryed a piece of metal with my right hand!
In all seriousness, I felt like I needed a better hand gripper that doesn't break easily. I did some research and found out that companies made hand grippers with varying resistance. I came across Captains of Crush on Google search. They seemed like well built, tough looking hand grippers. I read some reviews and one person said that #1 usually stops a grown man cold. I scoffed and ordered #1 and #2 because I thought I had above average or at least average hand grip strength after using the cheap plastic hand gripper.
I was seriously wrong. #1 stopped me cold. I cried (my heart did). The first day I tried it, I got blisters on my middle, ring, and pinky fingers on both hands! And I couldn't even budge #2. Blisters were pretty bad and washing my face each morning was a painful reminder that I was still a newbie. It took me more than a week to recover. But while I was recovering, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to do normal exercises with just #1 and #2. So I ordered the Trainer which was rated at 100 lbs.
The Trainer helped me get stronger fast. I used it rigorously for a week and I was able to close #1 a few times with a break between each rep. I always did 3 sets of ten reps with the Trainer as a warm up and did 1 or 2 sets of several reps with #1. I could only close #1 with my dominant right hand but after a month of training, I could also do it on my left hand.
Only about a month after I first closed #1, I closed #2. It came as a surprise. I was showing CoC grippers to my friends and I felt like showing off even more. They couldn't close #1 and I had already shown them closing #1 so I thought even if I fail at closing #2, it wouldn't hurt my pride as much. I tried and closed it. When the metals touched, I thought I had #1 in my hand. But it sure was #2.
A few more months have passed. It was early December 2009 and I could do several reps with #2 with my right hand and barely one rep with my left hand. I got curious again. What's #3 like? I ordered one. It was hard. I skipped #1.5 because I closed #2 relatively fast but this time, I really felt like I needed #2.5 to help me gap the bridge.
#2.5 arrived today (1/12/2010). I opened the package and closed it on the first try. I could feel that it was tougher than #2 but not by much. But regardless, I think it will help me get to #3 faster because what matters is one hard rep not several less-than-maximum-effort reps. As of today, I'm about 1cm away from closing #3. But after #2 rated at 195 lbs (~200 lbs), that 1cm gap is huge. I think it would take me at least half a year to fully close #3. But I'll get there eventually. And I'll write another review for #3 on Amazon.com.
here's a summary of my progress:
cheap plastic hand gripper (a few months)
Trainer to #1 (a week)
#1 to #2 - one rep (1 month)
#2 - several reps (4~5 months)
#2.5 - a few reps with a break between each rep (5 months)
#3 - about 1cm to go!
#3.5 - probably light years away :-)
Captains of Crush
Guide - 60 lbs
Sport - 80 lbs
Trainer - 100 lbs
#1 - 140 lbs
#1.5 - 167.5 lbs
#2 - 195 lbs
#2.5 - 237.5 lbs
#3 - 280 lbs
#3.5 - 322.5 lbs
#4 - 365 lbs
Description of Captains of Crush Hand Gripper - No. 1
Known around the world as the gold standard for building and testing hand strength, Captains of Crush Grippers are the single most important grip strength tool you can choose--ready to produce the quickest gains in grip strength and hand health. Available in ten strengths, there is a model perfect for everyone from rehab patients to World's Strongest Man competitors. These are the grippers that changed the world--never before had anyone taken grippers so seriously and pushed their development so far. Along the way, many of the biggest names in the strength world have shaken hands with and embraced CoC Grippers. Anything else is just a gripper. If increasing your grip strength is your goal, the ideal situation is to have three different grippers: one for your warm-ups, one for your work sets, and one that is your challenge gripper. No. 1: if you've been training your grip already, start here; most strong guys cannot close the No. 1 the first time they try.Hand Strengtheners
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