Grippers?

[Dave Bourgeois]

I was looking into some grippers, and I was looking at the captions of crush grippers. I read a few people who say not to skip to # 2 and get the # 1, and that there is only a handfull of people who can close the #3 and 4.

I have a heavy gripper from APT, and is rated at 150, its seems easy, i can do many reps with both hands. the COC start out I think at 140lbs. is there something wrong with mine, I dont see myself have super strong grip.?

[Jonathan Creason]

My HG 150 is way easier than my COC #1, probably easier than most trainers I've touched. Don't know if this will help you or not with your decision.

[Dane Kelley]

the HG grippers are weak compared to the COC i skipped the #1 but if i were you i would get the #1 and the #2

[Dave Bourgeois]

So is the HG not a true 150lb gripper? Thanks for the tips.

[Brendan Merchant]

I've always wondered about how the HG compare to COC.

I have a set of HG grippers I bought a couple of years ago going up to either a HG400 or 500.

Anyone have any ideas how they compare? I can close the HG300 but that's about my limit just now.

[Jonathan Creason]

Typically the HG 300 falls somewhere between the IM 2 and 3. Ranges tend to vary quite a bit, but on average are somewhere around the midpoint.

[Scott Kaiser]

Johnathon is right I have a HG300 that I can close for 15 full reps but I can only close a coc#3 once from a very deep set I also have the coc#2.5 that I can close for 8 The #3 is gonna close very soon!

[RyanWilson]

I have the HG400 that my friend won in some contest at T-Mag a while back, and I found it to be fairly harder than the IM#2 but much easier than the #3. I was able to close it fairly consistently after a week or two of practice (the giant handles were the only really tricky part to get used to), but the overall difficulty was, if I could come up with a mid-point guess, a 2.7 on the IM scale of grippers (I've never closed the #3, but come within 1-2mm of making it). So, don't bother thinking that the ratings on the HGs are a real indicator of true poundage needed to close them because, like so many other things, those numbers are way inflated.

[Brandon R.]

Heres a list of gripper rankings from the gripboard. Going by this list, I would say for you to get a Trainer, 1, and a 1.5. Go join grippermania and the gripboard for grip training.

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IM Guide 60 lbs

RB70

IM Sport 80 lbs

HG100

.225 BB Beginner 100 lbs

HG150

.225 COC T 100 lbs

RB130N

RB100

RB160N

RB130

RB180N

.235 BB Advanced 140 lbs

.235 COC #1 140 lbs

HG200

.241 COC 2004 #1 153 lbs

PDA243

.250 COC 2006 #1.5 168 lbs

.250 BB Super Advanced 173 lbs

GM1 cert gripper

RB210N

HG250

RB160

.260 BB Master 195 lbs

.260 COC #2 195 lbs

RB180

RB240N

PDA262

RB260N

.273 COC 2006 #2.5 238 lbs

HG300

.275 BB Super Master 255 lbs

GM2 cert Gripper

RB210

HG400

.281 BB Grand Master 280 lbs

.281 COC #3 280 lbs

.277 RB240

.283 COC 2005 #3 290 lbs

GM3 cert gripper

RB300N

HG350

.277 RB260

.295 spring, 1/4" mount, 2.75 width MMG1 * 306 lbs

.295 spring, 3/16" mount, 2.75 width MMG2 * 315 lbs

.295 BB Elite 320 lbs

.294 COC 2006 #3.5 323 lbs

RB330N

.306 spring, 1/4" mount, 2.75 width MMG3 * 335 lbs

.295 RB300

.306 spring, 3/16” mount, 2.75 width MMG4 * 345 lbs

.306 BB Super Elite 345 lbs

.312 BB Grand Elite 365 lbs

RB330

.312 COC #4 365 lbs

.353 HG500

RB365

.331 BB Pro 430 lbs

.345 BB World Class 470 lbs

.353? BB Galaxy 565 lbs

.362 BB Super Galaxy

.375 BB Grand Galaxy

RBWT

[Scott Kaiser]

thanks for that list brandon it has inspired me to have a grippers only training session tonight
gonna have to watch a certain seen from rocky one then crank up some coal chamber and close that darn #3

[jay lyttle]

ironminds are the best, i've tried some others that were pretty good but again ironminds #1 [a little bias, i was the 7th man to close the #3's]

[Wes Peart]

I like Beef Builders the best. The knurling and consistency IMO is better. But they are more $. I'd say start with a #2 IM, and just do negs on it if you can't close it first off.

[RyanWilson]

The list of gripper strengths is pretty comprehensive, but like anything else, take it with a grain of sald since every gripper can vary even from the companies that claim perfect precision.

I've got 2 PDA SOS262 grippers - the brand that claims they're all going to be perfectly identical. One can be slammed shut easily as being just slightly harder than the IM#2s I've used, the other is close to my IM #3s and I've only closed it a few times. So much for perfect accuracy....

Anyway, have fun with grippers, but don't sweat their strengths in listings too much or you'll drive yourself mad. You may eventually close one IM #3 and be stopped cold by another, so just pick a gripper, work to close it, and move on to the next one!

[Brian Brouwer]

thats a neat list, but Im not sure what all the numbers stand for, such as the ones with the decimal in front of them.

edit-nevermind, looks like it is the spring diameter

[ClayEdgin]

This is one of the reasons I started disliking grippers. They're all very inconsistent, although they're better today than they were 4 years ago when I got my first ones. It's like buying a dozen 45lb plates from different makers and they all vary by 5 pounds in either direction.

[RyanWilson]

This is one of the reasons I started disliking grippers. They're all very inconsistent, although they're better today than they were 4 years ago when I got my first ones.

C'mon, we all know the real reason is that they just didn't make a gripper you couldn't close, so of course it was going to get boring for you! :D

[ClayEdgin]

Ha! There were too many I couldn't close!

[Brendan Merchant]

Thanks for that