Captains of Crush Hand Gripper - Trainer
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Description of Captains of Crush Hand Gripper - Trainer
Captains of Crush Grippers blazed new trails in the gripper world, taking what had been largely a cheap, imported plaything and turning it into a beautifully designed and crafted tool for serious strength athletes. Made in the USA and known worldwide, nothing else puts power in the palm of your hand like a Captains of Crush Gripper. Captains of Crush Hand Grippers come in ten strengths, so whether your grip strength sizes up as X-Small or 3X-Large; we have your perfect fit.Sports reviews of Captains of Crush Hand Gripper - Trainer
Customer Review: Great! Captains of Crush Trainer Gripper
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
For me, a product review starts with the purchasing experience. Being in Japan with the high shipping costs, I am cautious about ordering items that I cannot see first simply because a money-back guarantee for a $20 item that costs $15 to ship is not very useful or appealing to me.
So I sent an email asking about shipping charges and which models they would recommend. TEN hours later I received a clear, helpful response from Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D., President of IronMind. I placed my order on Aril 13th at 3 PM. I quickly received a confirmation of my order and was told they would ship the next day. I am in Japan and I received my Captains of Crush Grippers on the afternoon of April 19th!
How could it get better than that?? Well, it did! When I opened the parcel I was surprised by the quality of the Captains of Crush Grippers. They are a first class product. They are guaranteed for one year but based on the high quality, they will last MUCH longer than that. If I have any complaint it would be that they are hard to close! LOL. I strongly recommend the Captains of Crush Grippers with NO reservations. The customer service from IronMind was first class and the Captains of Crush Grippers are first class!
About the Trainer Gripper: It is a good place to start if you have not used grippers before. If you have not done gloveless weight training you may find it "hard" on your hands initially, but it is a great product. I bought the trainer model, adn the sport model as a warm up for the trainer and WILL buy a # 1 and #2 as I get stronger!
Customer Review: Gold Standard
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
This item is the gold standard for grip workout equipment.
I've always been an athlete, and a strong guy. I worked out the usual exercises that you see overdone in the gym, and I'd stack plate after plate onto the bar. The problem is, when I had to do heavy dynamic lifts, I was always worried about losing the bar because of my hand strength. I'd sit there and fiddle with my grip for what seemed like eternity - something my buddies called, 'stall time'.
Well, I made it through those younger years o.k., but now I'm getting older and I still workout, although it's not with silly amounts of weight. Being a little older I'm paying attention to the things I neglected when I was young (isn't that how it always is?). So lifting-wise I focused a little more on what we ignored when we were going for 'beach body'. I decided I wanted a decent grip - something that wouldn't fail me if I needed to hold on. I did my research and found these grippers: I'm done searching for equipment in this category.
These are the pieces you want. They're well-made, incrementally designed ("Trainer" on up), and they're a challenge. Go with the trainers if you have no significant athletic or lifting experience. If you're a little bit beefy (in a good way) you can start with the #1's and be o.k. Save some room for humble pie if you try to advance with these too quickly. The idea of working on the #3's and #4's is a distant dream for me.
FYI: The grips will rough-up your hands - but isn't that at least a little bit of a good thing?
Customer Review: Amazing gripper
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
This product is amazing. I first bought this gripper because I needed to use straps when I was hangcleaning weights for high school football(straps help you hold onto the bar). Once I started to get towards my max 245+ lbs. I could not hangclean this weight very successfully without straps because the bar would start to slip out of my hands. I was an All-state defensive end and could barely close this grip once. After some extensive training with this grip for a few weeks(a month or less) I could close this grip 10+ times. Now I can close the number 1 gripper 6+ times on a good day. Some of the strongest guys I know cannot even close the number 1 grip once! Do not buy this product if you don't want you grip strength to get extremely powerful! If you are looking for a quality gripper, do not buy anything but this product.
P.S. I am not an Iron Mind(the maker of thiss product) salesman. I simply am in love with their grippers. I have yet to try their other products.
Customer Review: Helloooo man-hands
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
With regular training, these hand grips will significantly increase grip strength. Although hanging grips are a little different from the grip that captains of crush grippers help train, I seem to be able to do more pull-ups too.
Like it's been said before, these things will give you man-hands...not just in terms of strength, but it will tear your hand up and make them much more rough if your hands aren't already torn up and callused. The pain of the callusing process is negligible and I personally got used to the texture of the grip just after a few days.
One thing I wanted to know before I decided to buy this was how big it was. After a bit of research, people were talking about it being too wide in certain cases and thus too difficult to close. When I spread out my fingers, the distance from the tip of my thumb to the tip of my pinky is about 8.5 inches, and I have no problem doing a no-set with the gripper.
Customer Review: Great Product, Not for Beginners
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
I knew this going in, but for those that do not, this is not your garden variety department store or big box athletics store gripper. This is for serious grip training. Even though I realized this, and though I had some experience with grippers and weight lifting before, I still could not close this more than 4 or 5 times in a row to start.
If you are new to grip training, consider getting a cheap gripper and/or use other methods to start and/or buy this knowing you may have to work up to even the lowest level of gripper that Captains of Crush offers. If you are a more advanced weight lifter, or have had past experience with grippers then this is where to start.
That aside, this is an all metal, beautifully constructed gripper. It will last and it will give your hands a serious workout for as long as you need it to. This is going to last longer than you are.