For a few weeks I had been doing a rep or a handful of reps with my Heavy Grips just before laying down, and sometimes upon waking or at other times as the mood struck me.
Greasing the groove with them as it was on my mind.
The 150lb gripper is easy for reps with either hand, and I was getting within a millimeter of closing the 200lb one with my right hand.
I was even getting further and further with the 200lb in the left hand. From barely moving to past halfway closed.
I hadn’t done a rep in around a week or two, though I had done some bar hangs a few days ago, and got a really good forearm pump from skin the cats and fat bar pullups a few days before that.
Now 9/26 it was with using a good set with the opposite hand mind you, but on my right hand I closed it then came within a millimeter on the second and third reps. A set of close to three, from what was a one rep or nearly so not so long ago.
High Frequency → Time Off → Progress
↑ Science and…Truth.
For the right hand I did start negatives with the 250lb gripper, a step past the present “goal”, but that was ridiculously fast in opening, and what I was doing that I felt was working was doing sets of reps with the 150lb gripper as slowly as possible with both hands, and progressively failing further and further with the 200 and 250.
I’ve had these for years, and only now have I started to train on them and make progress.
Remember – High Frequency → Time Off → Progress