Josh did more in the One Hand Deadlift than David Arquette and Charlie Sheen could probably do in the Two Man Deadlift last week, pulling 405-lbs to a legal height over the knee.

Freakin’ awesome, bro, and another win in the books.

This week’s challenge is the Sledge Hammer Deadlift

Here are the quality specs I want to see for this lift this week.

1. Must use a 6-lb (or heavier) Sledge Hammer / Post Mall, etc to perform the feat.

2. Must measure the handle of the device on video and show the 25-inch mark. Put a piece of tape on the handle at the 25-inch point. You must grasp the handle of the device behind this marker – no contact with the marker during the lift is permitted.

Lift to upright position and return to the floor without knocking off the coin.

3. The Hammer/Mall/Etc must start in a flat position on the floor with a coin on top of it (coin can not be taped or glued to the device – it must be free to slide/bounce/etc)

Tape at 25-inches. Hand must remain behind this mark on the handle. If you want to go from the end, that is more challenging.

4. The athlete must grip behind the 25-inch mark and deadlift the sledge hammer to the full standing position, pause momentarily, and then return the sledge hammer under control to the floor. Upon completion of the lift, the coin must remain on the head of the leverage device. Bouncing is permitted as long as the coin does not fall off.

Check it out in action below…

Click the following link to share this video: Sledge Hammer Training for Stronger Wrists

Video Submission Guidelines

Once you have shot your video, then all you have to do is email me the link to the video, or send it to me through the YouTube messaging system (here’s my channel), Hit me at Facebook, etc.

Make sure the information in the Title, Description, and Tags follows this criteria:

       Title: “DieselCrew.com Grip Strength Challenge – Sledge Hammer Deadlift”
       Description: http://www.dieselcrew.com Sledge Hammer Deadlift
       Tags: Grip Strength, Grip Training, Hand Strength, Hand Strength Training, Strong Wrists

Please make sure your video is submitted to me by Friday, May 6, at 8 PM EST to be sure your video gets posted here on my site.

Scoring

The winner will be decided by me this week using a very simple system, which I will divulge when all submissions have been sent in…

All the best in your training,

Jedd

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• Sledge Hammer Finger Walking
• Most Popular Videos of 2011 – Part 2
• Slim Lever Submissions
• Making Hard Feats Look Easy – The Inch Dumbbell

Week 4 – Hammer Levering

Hello Diesels!

The time has come to vote for Week 4′s Submissions, but before you get to the videos, read what one of the participants sent me this week.

I hope this shows some of you are hedging on submitting videos that you should keep on trying because when you do finally hit the feat, it is so freakin’ awesome!!!

“Just so you know I’m having a blast with this idea of yours. There have been a couple times I didn’t think I could do the challenge since I never trained grip, but I practice up all week, work on technique and so far have made great progress in the lifts you’ve picked. Hopefully they keep going up, so I can be a grip jedi like some of you other guys.”

Darrin Shallman

Mark Hrko

Mary Anne McKeague

Josh McIntyre

Derek Girven

Paul Tompkins

Matt Hunt

Mike Rojas

Thanks for voting everybody!

Jedd

Similar Posts:

• Diesel Grip Feat Challenge – Week 1 Submissions
• Diesel Grip Strength Challenge – Week 2 Submissions
• Diesel Grip Strength Challenge – Week 3 Submissions
• Slim Lever Submissions
• Grip Strength Challenge Week 9

A couple weeks back I blogged about how I was going to start taping my workouts and posting them to YouTube so that I could get help from you all and so that I could spread the word about Grip and Strongman training.

If you missed that post, you can read about it here: ===> Training my Ass off in my Garage – Fire Walk with Me. I have had a lot of fun putting these together and my workouts have just gotten better and better.

So I had to let you all know that I was able to accomplish something HUGE in my Grip training last night.

For the first time ever, I was able to lever my 16-lb hammer, free standing, from the vertical position, down to my face, and back up again. I did it very strictly, meaning I didn’t bounce it around or anything. My hand dropped a bit which makes it easier, but I was very happy to be able to get it back to the vertical position, regardless.

Sledge hammer levering is great for strengthening the wrists for nail bending and card tearing.

I must warn you, levering a heavy sledge hammer is not a walk in the park. Dominating a lighter hammer for multiple can make you think you are ready to jump up a couple pounds, but once that hammer head starts moving downward, it can feel totally different.

If you try sledge levering, watch your lips. The moment that hammer gets near parallel, it starts picking up speed in hurry, and you can’t just call time out and stop it.

The Hardest Block Weight I Ever Saw

I was also able to get some good work in on my GIGANTIC half 115-lb block weight.

If you’re not familiar with block weights, the most common type is half of a dumbbell, Block weights are great for hand strength because they force you to generate strength in an open hand position, training you to engage your finger tips and your palm.

Anyway, back to the half 115-lb hex block weight.

In like 2004, a very strong grip dude named Shane Larson from North Dakota sent out 3 of these half 115-lb block weights. He sent them to 3 of the top block weight lifters at the time – Sean Dockery, Heath Sexton, and me.

These half 115′s are freakin’ HUGE, my friends!  The slope on these things is over 7 inches across, meaning from the end of one side slope to the end of the opposite side slope is over 7 inches.  I have a hard time even getting a purchase on the vertical sides of this hunk of iron and my hands are pretty damn big.

I’ve had this thing for 5 years and have only broken it off the ground a handful of times and I was able to do more than that last night.

In fact, nobody in the world has ever lifted one of these block weights to a full deadlift!

So check this video out.

This one is my bench workout and my Grip stuff.

This one is just my grip stuff – it’s the same video, just I auto-started it after all the bench footage.

Right at the end of the video is when I start ramping it up for this killer half 115-lb block weight. Wait for it, it’s worth it.

-Jedd-Similar Posts:

• Levering a Giant Hammer
• This Week’s Challenge – Sledge Hammer Deadlift
• Diesel Grip Strength Challenge – Week 3 Results & Week 4 Feat
• Grip Strength Training – Block Weight Lifting
• Isometric Hammer Work for Bending Success