and Strength in General
IronMind.com: The best web site for purchasing the best hand-strength training tools, to include the IronMind grippers, the Rolling Thunder, and the "Bag-o-Nails". It is also the place for (The Grip Guru) John Brookfield's two books, The Mastery of Hand Strength, and The Grip Masters Manual. You can also find Brookfields "Grip tip of the month", only at IronMind. They also publish and sell "MILO", and outstanding weightlifting and strength training journal with every thing from armwrestling, strongman, highland games, hand strength training, to olympic lifting.
Robert Baraban Grippers: The highest quality, highest diversity, highly specalized grippers on the market. If you are a grip fanatic and love grippers, your life is not complete with out a set of RB grippers. Simply the Best. Brass, steel, black chromium, silver chrome, even gold plated handles. Quality engraving, altered handle width, and 5 strengths to suit the persuit of the IronMind #3. Also, check out the infamous WT. Again, simply the best. (more info here)
Weight Lifters Warehouse: A source for NINE different strengths of Beef Builder grippers, and many other grip and strength tools. These grippers give you the much needed variety that IronMind fails to do. Over all, a great site with some great grippers.
Heavy Grips: A cheap gripper. Some are perfect, some are substandard. For the price, you really can't compain. You can also reset them at home with a vice and crazy-glue.
The Lemely Gripper: It's a joke. Dangerous, but a fun novelty.
Tom Black's Big Steel Page: This is an awsome site where I first learned about nail bending. A personal favorite, and Highly recomended. Great photos and great articles by an incredible bender and a truly strong man. Check out the "wrench" photos... Wow.
Strongman's Steel Bending Page: Another great introduction to bending and hand strength training by another acomplished bender. The best part is two incredible tables that rank nail, bolt, and steel bending "weights". These tables alone make this site a "must visit" for any aspiring bender.
www.dieselcrew.com A site about the strength world and grip run by two strong dudes who have a large focus on feats of strength.
Amaury Macaire's Page: Yea, it's in french, but there are some good videos and pics.
Alan McCabe's Page: More grip feats.
Aptdwler's Fightraining: A great source for more grip stuff and homemade grip equipment.
Steve McGranahan's Page: One of the worlds best benders and a truly strong man.
Jackle's Gym: Home of one of the planets strongest humans, and someday perhaps the strongest hands, Wade Gillingham. There are some mindblowing videos of him casualy performing feats of strength that mortal man could train a life time to accomplish. "Wade can lift 'the blob' with the same effort the average guy takes to lift the morning paper".
Testosterone Magazine , WestSide Barbell and Elite Fitness Systems: Great info on the Westside style of lifting. Yea, there's a deal of steroid info, but ignore that garbage unless you value strength and size over health, morality, and iron-game ethics. Focus on their powerlifting articles, and you too will learn every thing you've done wrong with squatting and the bench press, and will learn the secrets to being a truly powerful man. Don't do drugs.
Dennis Rogers: Pound for pound, perhaps the strongest man who ever lived? A well done site with some creepy feats of strength by an amazing man.
Strongman Grip Training: Here's a detailed description of grip training.
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