Captains of crush

Been working on them all day when I have a minute to spare and my hands are already pretty sore.

I do a lot of farmers walks and my grip is the weak link. Hopefully this will help.

And do not do this. When you train with heavy duty grippers (Captains of Crush, GHP, Baraban, etc) you need to treat it as if you’re doing a weight workout.

Meaning you do a certain number of sets and reps and that’s your workout. You don’t close these all day. Unlike cheap store-bought grippers, these give real resistance and you need to recover. If I were you I would do one gripper workout per week and work on building your overall body strength in the gym. Unless you’re a freak, you’re not going to hit the monster grippers (if that’s your goal) one day without overall body strength.

On your gripper days, eat and prepare as if you’re going to weight train. And treat recovery the same. Furthermore, minimize heavy use of your hands outside gripper work and gym training.

Keep in mind grippers train just one form of Grip - Crush Grip. There’s also pinch and thick bar.

Yes. I can close the 2, 3/4’s of the way

I'm finding that my difficulty in closing the last fraction of an inch is leverage, not strength. I feel like it would be easy if I could bear down on it. I've been watching videos but maybe I'm still not doing it right.

Point taken about overdoing it. I bet you could injure yourself if not careful. A little surprising, I wasn't very sore at all today.

I also do dumbbell vertical carry with 90 degrees at the elbows and forearms parallel to the floor. Add that to the farmer walks. Good stuff.

They’ve been around since the 90’s. I like GHP grippers just as much. Check out Cannon PowerWorks

I keep a trainer at my desk and a .5 in my truck. I use them while I'm in traffic or on the office phone. Idk if they've made me that much stronger but it's kind of therapeutic.