Coming to the end of my grip strength

[lyorn]

I'm doing the NRoLfW program, and there are some leg exercises there that require holding a dumbbell in each hand. With today's weight I found that I have difficulties holding the dumbbells (not helped by the grips on the dumbbells being made for larger hands than mine), because my grip strength is not up to my leg strength. It has increased, but not as much as needed.

Anyone has had that happen, too? Any tips?

Comments

[xenacryst]

While not specifically grip strength, I think it helps with general wrist and hand strength: get a small (5 pound or so) hand weight and sit leaning forward with your elbows and part of your forearm on your legs. Hold your hand palm down with the hand weight in it and then drop your wrist down. Bring it back up as high as you can without lifting your arm, and then down again. Then, turn your hand over and do the same thing, curling your wrist up as high as you can with the weight in it. I also sometimes turn my arm on its side and and do the same kind of motion (which in this orientation is sort of like the wrist-only part of ringing a hand bell). I've been finding that these are increasing my wrist, forearm, and hand strength a fair amount over the last few months.

[lyorn]

That might be a use for the purple dumbbells that I have lying around... Thank you!

[rydra_wong]

Ooh, yes. If you have little dumbbells lying around that you now feel scornful about, they're good for wrist curls and also for rotator cuff exercises.