Grip Strength Pictures

HeangKoing,

The 5.10-5.11 climbing grades equate to 6 or 7 French.

US grading goes from 5.0 - 5.15, so I'm not an expert yet.

However, I had more protection than the one piece for 100
feet. English grading takes into account both the difficulty
and the "danger" factor, while US ratings give dangerous
climbs a rating of "R" (probable injury from fall, even when
available protection points are used) or "X" (probable death
from fall even when available protection is used). These
ratings are used in addition to the numerical difficulty grade.

Lee

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Impressive indeed! For how long have you been lifting weights, Lee?

Notice his face in the first pic is the same color as the gripinator! ;)

Looks good Lee! I'd take your challange but i dont think i could lift a 150 lb dumbell with both hands, let alone walk around with two!

-doug-

I'm really glad I have the week off during the holidays so I can
come here and stir up trouble. I've missed it.

Celtic,

I started lifting weights on Thanksgiving. (Oh, yeah, 33 years
ago)

Doug,

But if you pick up two, you're balanced! And do you know
how hard it is to get a good color match between face and
equipment? I have another very pale Gripanator for after the
puking....... :-)

As far as the challenge goes, just get out there and work hard
as often as possible. It doesn't matter where you are now,
but rather where you are tomorrow.

Lee

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hahaha. word. My days of challenges are over my friend. Competition beckons, and it takes up all of my free training time prepairing for those. I might take a pic of the ol' forearms tomorrow for the kids though.

-doug-

That Farmer's Walk pic is pure motivation!
Thanks for sharing the pic and the great articles, Lee!
(thanks to the fish for posting the pics, as well)

Wow!!! Thats about all I can say..lol :)

Lee,

Who's PDA? I am not familar with company.

PDA is Piedmont Design Associates. Go to :

www.fractionalplates.com

They're currently making up helmets based on the old
design like the one I've described here.

I will be putting up more grip training photos on the web, and
hope that Scrapper will make them available here for you
guys. I'm going to show some cheaper "home-made" stuff,
as well as some more "toys".

Happy Holidays, everybody!

Lee

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Jimmy23,

Great work! Keep challenging yourself and you'll be toting
200# per hand before you know it!

Lee

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"However, I had more protection than the one piece for 100 feet. English grading takes into account both the difficulty and the "danger" factor, while US ratings give dangerous climbs a rating of "R" (probable injury from fall, even when available protection points are used) or "X" (probable death from fall even when available protection is used). These ratings are used in addition to the numerical difficulty grade."

Nice info.

Lee A man that farmers walk is bad ass! Your face is really red!

I manage to deadlift with one arm holding on to the bar 319lbs :D. It is the lift of the quarter for me in England. I'll probably get a video of me doing it and hopefully doing 324.5lbs on Wednesday. Or may even 330lbs. Hook grip and my thumb felt as if it was going to rip off.

A friend can deadlift 396lbs but only manage 286lbs with one arm.

I love my grip strength from rock climbing. I wonder how I stack against those machines you use. You'd probably be better then me though :(

Koing

Not sure how it compares to others. I've seen some bad ass guys in the gym but no one does a single arm deadlift as it isn't exactly normal.

Can't wait to train on Wednesday. Not trained since Sat and missed 2 weeks over xmas period due to being on holiday.

Saw a mma type of gym in CA where my uncle lives. Thought that was cool. They had some weights over. He lives in the Bellflower region of LA I think....

Koing

HeangKoing,

It's not a competition between you and me, or anybody else.
We want to be better than we were yesterday.

You sound very strong, so relax your ego and keep working
out!

The Farmer's Walk challenge is meant to get guys out there
with some motivation to train.

Lee

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