One of the things I like to do is get my hands on some of the pieces of equipment out there and go over them, looking at their Pro’s, Con’s, advantages, disadvantages, etc, and shooting review videos. Over the course of the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to review several cool pieces and I have several more to do once I get the time.

For now, I want to post them here in case you missed them when I uploaded them originally, plus I will add in a few more details about each one.

Fat Gripz Extreme

I know you have heard of Fat Gripz. You can’t go onto a site with Google AdWords and not see them advertise these days. However, you may not have seen that FG also is coming out with an extension of their product line called “Extremes” that are even larger in diameter, making them an even bigger challenge for your Grip Strength.

Wrist Developer

I recently got comments on my YouTube channel asking what the cool piece of equipment was we were using in one of the contests. It is the Wrist Developer from World of Grip. Their design is being overhauled and I hope to be getting more of them in for re-sale in time for the holidays. Leave a comment below if you are interested in picking one up.

Hand Yoga

From the Manus company, this is a piece designed specifically for training the extensor muscles. This is very similar to another piece on the market, but this one works MUCH better than the other one. I was happy to see it function properly, but with its strength level, it is just too light for me. I will stick with my #84 Rubber Bands.

There are still more reviews to come. Companies contact me quite often. The next piece I will shoot is called the Perform RX Ball Security System. Pretty cool stuff, this is a piece of strapping that attaches directly to a football or basketball and allows you to train for grip strength using sport-specific equipment in similar fashion to the way the equipment is used on the field & court.

That is coming soon. For now, make sure to subscribe to my channel and don’t forget to sign up for email updates.

All the best in your training.

Jedd

One of the things I like to do is get my hands on some of the pieces of equipment out there and go over them, looking at their Pro’s, Con’s, advantages, disadvantages, etc, and shooting review videos. Over the course of the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to review several cool pieces and I have several more to do once I get the time.
For now, I want to post them here in case you missed them when I uploaded them originally, plus I will add in a few more details about each one.

Fat Gripz Extreme

I know you have heard of Fat Gripz. You can’t go onto a site with Google AdWords and not see them advertise these days. However, you may not have seen that FG also is coming out with an extension of their product line called “Extremes” that are even larger in diameter, making them an even bigger challenge for your Grip Strength.

Wrist Developer

I recently got comments on my YouTube channel asking what the cool piece of equipment was we were using in one of the contests. It is the Wrist Developer from World of Grip. Their design is being overhauled and I hope to be getting more of them in for re-sale in time for the holidays. Leave a comment below if you are interested in picking one up.

Hand Yoga

From the Manus company, this is a piece designed specifically for training the extensor muscles. This is very similar to another piece on the market, but this one works MUCH better than the other one. I was happy to see it function properly, but with its strength level, it is just too light for me. I will stick with my #84 Rubber Bands.
There are still more reviews to come. Companies contact me quite often. The next piece I will shoot is called the Perform RX Ball Security System. Pretty cool stuff, this is a piece of strapping that attaches directly to a football or basketball and allows you to train for grip strength using sport-specific equipment in similar fashion to the way the equipment is used on the field & court.
That is coming soon. For now, make sure to subscribe to my channel and don’t forget to sign up for email updates.
All the best in your training.
Jedd

DIESELS!

Variety and Convenience.

These are two things I am always looking for in my training.

Having Variety allows me to constantly be challenging myself in the gym with new and different pieces of equipment. This keeps the gains coming and the PR’s piling up.

Convenience is very important to me because I have limited space for training and don’t want to waste time setting stuff up and breaking stuff down. I want to get in, get the work done, and be able to get out of the gym and enjoy my time with my family.

Maybe you are like that too?

Well, I’ve got a buddy named Ryan Pitts. Maybe you have heard of him. He runs a company called Stronger Grip Enterprises.

Ryan has put out a brand new grip training equipment system, called the Modular Grip System.

The Modular Grip System is a training equipment kit with loading pins and interchangeable parts.

This means that it will allow you to train various aspects of grip strength with a small collection of tools.

The MGS, as it is called, comes with two loading pins and various plug-in style handles which attach to these loading pins. Let’s run down the handles that come within the system:

1. Two Hand Pinch (normally $59)
This is a steel implement that attaches to the loading pin and allows you to train open hand strength and thumb strength, two very important aspects of grip which have carryover to all sorts of athletic activities and sports.

2. Plateau Buster Handle (normally $149)
This is another steel implement that is used to train true support strength. The handle is about 1 inch in diameter, meaning just about everybody will be able to wrap their hand completely around it and strengthen the grip for deadlifts and other pulling movements.

3. A 2 3/8-inch Vertical Bar
This device allows you to train in an ulnar deviated open hand position. You’ve probably seen vertical bar training before, but if not, think gripping a giant office
water bottle by the neck, or trying to pull a 2 and 3/8 inch thick horseshoe stake out of the ground. This joint orientation is also very similar to pulling on a long rope. Awesome for serious hand strength.

4. Thick Burger Grip
This is pretty much a new device for me, but it is very similar to block weight training. The Burger Grip is pill-shaped. Imagine lifting a giant aspirin tablet.
Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

If you’re looking for a good set of equipment that is going to last you a long time, then this could very well be perfect for you.

I own all kinds of Ryan Pitt’s Stronger Grip equipment and it is all top notch.

In terms of workmanship, much of Ryan’s equipment BLOWS AWAY his competitors in terms of quality and aesthetics, plus they are built to last.

Looking at the new design, I think this version of the Plateau Buster will be even better than the first version for dynamic training such as swings, because the plates will be loaded vertically instead of horizontally.

I still use mine to this day for heavy two-handed swings because I can actually get both hands on the handle fully, something most people are unable to do with kettlebells.

I hope Ryan puts up records lists for this equipment. I know it is always fun to see how much you can pull on new pieces of equipment, but when there are public listings available on sites like his, it makes it even more fun and allows you to challenge yourself for years down the road as well.

So, make sure you check out the Modular Grip System from Stronger Grip. Right now it is just $199 for the whole package. That is less than the regular total for the Plateau Buster and Two Hand Pinch handle.

If you get the MGS right now, you will essentially get the Vertical Bar and Burger Grip handles for free.

Enjoy and all the best in your training,

Jedd

P.S. Ryan has indicated that he is working on other prototypes that will be coming out later as additional plug-in handles for the Modular Grip System. So that means even more goodies to come!

I am starting to enjoy doing reviews of grip training equipment as well as other forms of training equipment. Sometimes when I do the review I think of brand new ways to use the equipment in my training that I hadn’t thought of before.

One piece of equipment I enjoyed reviewing a lot was Pop’s Grip Machine, from Sorinex. This is because a good friend of mine, and someone whom I respect very greatly, Richard Sorin, personally wrote me and invited me to review it.

Of course, I could not wait to check this thing out, because I have seen a lot of the equipment that Sorinex produces, and even beyond Grip Gear, they make some of the highest quality equipment that is available.

I recently got the opportunity to shoot my review video of Pop’s Grip Machine and I was not disappointed. As always, they have taken the normal guillotine-style grip machine and innovated it, making it even more challenging and effective.

See what I mean in this video:

If you would like to find out more about this awesome piece of equipment, then check out Sorinex.

For more of my Grip Equipment Review Videos, check out my Equipment Review Playlist on YouTube, and be sure to subscribe.

All the best in your training,

Jedd

I am starting to enjoy doing reviews of grip training equipment as well as other forms of training equipment. Sometimes when I do the review I think of brand new ways to use the equipment in my training that I hadn’t thought of before.
One piece of equipment I enjoyed reviewing a lot was Pop’s Grip Machine, from Sorinex. This is because a good friend of mine, and someone whom I respect very greatly, Richard Sorin, personally wrote me and invited me to review it.
Of course, I could not wait to check this thing out, because I have seen a lot of the equipment that Sorinex produces, and even beyond Grip Gear, they make some of the highest quality equipment that is available.
I recently got the opportunity to shoot my review video of Pop’s Grip Machine and I was not disappointed. As always, they have taken the normal guillotine-style grip machine and innovated it, making it even more challenging and effective.
See what I mean in this video:

If you would like to find out more about this awesome piece of equipment, then check out Sorinex.
For more of my Grip Equipment Review Videos, check out my Equipment Review Playlist on YouTube, and be sure to subscribe.
All the best in your training,
Jedd

I am working on some awesome things that we will be soon announcing. In fact, these are some of the biggest things I have ever worked on.

Working on these projects has been taking up a lot of my time recently, so I have not had the chances to sit down and write as much as I like.

However, I have had the time to do some more equipment reviews. Below are some videos I did on some of the excellent grip training equipment from Rogue Fitness.

Take note, Rogue is always expanding their equipment selection, so this is not all that they offer, but I must say I like the way they are going because some of this equipment is similar to the training we have been doing at Diesel Crew for years.

Rogue Fitness Equipment Review 1 – Straps, Carabiners, Grandfather Clock

I am about two degrees short of being a horder. It is probably best to call me a disorganized pack rat. For years, I had a couple of sets of straps in my gym that I use for attaching to things when carabiners didn’t fit, such as Rolling Thunder handles onto my pull-up bar. I lost those things so many times it isn’t even funny. Rogue has developed their own special system that accommodates for this, as shown above. Also, their grandfather clock is just like the vertical bar handles we trained with for years back in the mid-2000’s. This type of hand positioning gives you a great added variety to your grip training.

The handles I am referring to are in the Diesel Video below. We used to do a lot of brainstorming back in the day on equipment that we could sell, but because we had no way to mass-produce stuff, we never acted on any of our ideas. It is good to see them being put out there for the masses to enjoy. I think other companies have produced similar handles as well.

Go to 2:35 to see the handles I am referring to.

Rogue Fitness Equipment Review 2 – Dog Bone, Globe

Look, I am going to say it right now – I love both of these pieces of equipment. My right wrist was pretty messed up when I was doing these and each rep felt like my hand was going to pop off, but the combination of coolness and challenge level with these two implements is awesome. The open hand positioning combined with gross forearm recruitment is intense with these two implements.

Also, if you own Advanced Forearm Training for Baseball, you’ll see the resemblance between the Globe and the Orb Pull-ups in my manual. Rogue was using their heads though and made the Globe light-weight while still being large and challenging to hold.

In the past, I have used my 95-lb Kettlebell. What a pain in the ass neck that is to hang – especially when you can’t find your rigging straps like I referenced above.

I hope Mike Rankin from Drexel sees this video, as I put in a reference to the Spider Monkey, just for his benefit.

Rogue Fitness Equipment Review 3 – Cannon Balls, Pinch Block, Bipolar Training

In the video above I show some of the other gear using some basic and more advanced drills. In the video above, I tried to give you some out-of-the-box ways to use this gear, instead of just the same old lift-it-up-and-hold-it types of lifts. The Rogue gear allows you to do a lot of different things with it, and if you use your head you can probably come up with some of your own creative ways to torture yourself.

Well, I hope this info has been helpful both as a way to familiarize yourself with some of Rogue’s catalog as well as some ways you can train your grip that are different from the same old conventional means.

Any questions, leave a comment below, otherwise, you can check out the rest of Rogue’s catalog here: Rogue Fitness.

Jedd

P.S. I have been asked by some to do equipment reviews of other equipment, and I am reaching out to the companies to see if they will work with me. Feel free to leave a comment below if there is anything you’d like me to look into for you.

P.P.S. I also have a very cool new piece of equipment from Sorinex that I am extremely excited about. I will hopefully get that video up next week, so make sure to sign up for updates through my newsletter below: