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- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
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- How to get a grip like a gorilla
and forearms like Popeye,
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- We are giving away a Grip Strengthener.
- [Brad] Oh!
- So it fits right along with this video.
- Yes.
- And in fact Brad, why don't we go ahead
and show it right away.
So this is the Bob and Brad Grip Strengthener.
- Yes, it is, Bob.
- Just happens to be by the way.
This is a great device that you can use
for both a beginner, because I'm trying to show
beginner and advanced exercises with all these.
- Sure, you bet. - That's all.
But what the big thing is,
if you want big forearms,
you've gotta work on wrist flexion, extension,
and ulnar deviations and radial deviations.
You want to get 'em all, right?
- You were smooth with that Bob.
- I wasn't smooth with that at all.
(laughing)
But yeah, Brad's showing right there how you
can work on wrist flexion, you can flip around.
I'm going on the beginner version here,
I'm just doing one band.
- Yep.
- Whoops, it kind of popped up on me there.
I'll do two bands.
- yeah that's good.
- There we go.
Just do two bands here.
You're just doing two bands too.
- Well it's because it's a little easier
in these directions Bob,
but yeah it really is a nice,
actually it was invented by
a rock climber - Yeah.
friend of ours, 'cause he had no good way
to strengthen his grip for rock climbing,
which is pretty important, life altering.
- Yeah and this isn't like a, right exactly,
because it would affect your safety.
You can try to do these with a big heavy bar,
but the bar, once you get up
beyond a certain point,
no longer is giving much resistance.
- Right, and it's hard to take it with you
in your suitcase.
- Right, this thing,
I'm going to actually keep it at my desk.
- Sure.
- I had been doing it at home at night
and it just gave me too much
with my routine.
I want to just, when I take a break at work,
I'm going to go ahead
and rip of a set of 25 of these or so.
- He's going to rip 'em off.
- Yep that's right.
(laughing)
So anyway the Grip Strengthener,
sign up for it,
you can get one for free,
but if you win one, we'll reimburse you
if you bought one beforehand.
- Oh sure, yep.
- So you know I've just gotta give this fact,
do you know a silverback gorilla
can actually lift up to 1,800 pounds,
isn't that amazing?
That's a lot of weight.
- 1,800, I would like
to see that video (laughing).
- Yeah, that would be cool wouldn't it?
All right, next one Brad,
we're going to go and show you
some beginner ones for the wrist.
You can actually take,
if you're an average person
and you're not very strong,
or you're trying to get your strength
back up on your wrist, you can just take a plate.
- Sure.
- And you can just work on doing wrist
strengthening like this.
- I would use one of those plates like Corelle.
You drop 'em and they don't break.
- That's right.
- Cause I mean you've got a nice piece
of china that it looks like is your wife's
that you took off the wall.
- No I took this out of work here.
I don't know why they had it here.
- Oh, well, it could be it's a Mother's Day gift.
- Yeah I know it is.
I don't know where it came from,
but you can do extension
and you can do flexion.
You're also getting a little pincher strength.
- Right, yep.
- The thumb and the fingers are getting
a little bit of strength too.
- Right so.
- Now this obviously isn't that hard,
but maybe you've had surgery or something,
this could be very hard.
- Right, or you've got some arthritic hands
and you want to maintain your strength,
may be a good way to do it.
- Yep, you can even do a little bit of ulnar
and radial deviation with this too.
- Yep.
- But now, if you're more of a beefy guy,
you could go ahead and take a plate.
- Right.
- You know if you're one that works out,
you can go put your fingers on the smooth side,
and you can go ahead and work on,
now this is starting to work Brad.
- Right.
- If you're stronger than this,
get a 25-pound plate.
- And it does make a difference.
Can you flip it over Bob?
His fingers are straight.
- Right.
- And that does make a difference
on which muscles you're working.
- Oh (grunts) this is a little harder this way.
- Why look at those!
You have been working out haven't you Bob?
- Yeah (laughing) right.
- Wow you've got some definition
in those extensors.
- All right, by the way do you know
I'm going to give another gorilla statistic here.
Their grip is so strong, they can actually
crush an alligator.
Isn't that something?
I find that amazing.
- Why Bob? - All right Brad.
- Crush a 150 pound alligator, a 2,000 pound,
they just ...
- They're 500 pounds, the silverback,
they don't weigh 2,000 pounds.
- Alligator, I just saw a video on an alligator
that was called a great white or something.
He was 100 years old and he weighed a lot,
anyways, carry on.
- Let's show this next Brad.
So you can take a broom stick
or a BOOYAH Stik.
- Yeah booyah!
- Okay, anyway, what you can do is
you can work on it a lot of different ways
to work on your grip, - Sure.
- and your actually forearm strength.
You can do lever up like this,
which is working on,
I'm actually doing radial deviation with this.
- Right, and if you're starting out,
you don't have to have a BOOYAH Stik,
you can do this with a broom stick
- Right. - or something else.
If you're in the middle,
you know your wrist is very weak
after surgery, you would start here and
as you get stronger,
you simply work down the stick.
- Or you can go the other way.
- There ya go, yep.
- You go like this, you can work backwards.
The other one you can do
is you can actually do
forearm supination and pronation.
- Right, which is very functional.
You do that motion to open up a door,
you do that motion with a screwdriver,
there's all kinds of functional reasons
to do that motion.
- Now if you're the big beefy guy,
and you're going to do advanced,
you go ahead and take one
of the 45-pound weight bars.
- (laughing) Yeah.
- Then you're going to be working,
but again you're probably going to have to start
in the middle with that because,
that's going to be a lot of work.
- Right, right.
- I mean no matter which way you go,
that's going to be a lot of work.
- In our neighborhood growing up,
which our neighbors were spread out,
so within a few miles,
the thing was,
when you were in high school,
to take a sledgehammer with a 8-pound head
or 12-pound head, and hold it
and see if you could touch your nose
with the (laughing) sledge part there
and then go like that,
but I don't recommend anybody trying that.
- Lot of brain injury in that neighborhood
isn't there Brad?
- Well we had strong wrists Bob.
- All right, okay, well good for you.
All right next one is actually called
the book walk Brad.
I thought this was kind of interesting.
Again for a beginner,
you take kind of a heavier book like this,
and you're gonna walk your fingers
along the book like this.
So this one you can do at work,
you can just work.
- Probably works better with a hard cover
than a soft cover.
- Yeah, a hardcover and maybe even has
a little of a binder on it
you know you can work away longer.
- Right, and the thicker the book,
it might be a little easier,
but it's a little heavier,
so there's a lot of variable.
Nowadays books aren't as popular
with the Internet and cell phones,
so you probably have some extras.
- But you can try it with a plate too,
oh (grunting) that's a little harder.
- How many pound you got?
You got a 10-pound plate, yeah.
- Ten pounder, yeah so, the book walk.
The last one Brad, I found this interesting.
You know I used to do this
when I'd work on farms.
You go around carrying a bucket of feed
from one place to another.
- Wait, you worked on farms?
- Yes, I worked on farms.
You don't believe (laughs).
Why is Alex laughing at this?
(laughing]
- So.
- Farms as in plural, more than one farm.
- Well my grandpa had a farm,
for one thing,
and we did farm construction.
- Okay, okay, I'll give you a break.
- So, but you carry something and your gonna
to work on your grip, you want to carry
something quite heavy.
- Yep.
- This kind of has a double benefit Brad.
You don't realize this actually,
but this actually is working on your back.
- Sure.
- You're working isometrically to work
on your core strength.
- Right.
- That's the muscles you want to
strengthen with your back,
because that's how you want to protect it.
- But if you've got a back problem,
I would avoid this
because it might hurt your back.
- Right.
So you can walk along and you can see it's
just carrying this around. - Oh yeah.
- from appointment to appointment.
- That's a 30-pounder isn't it?
- Is it?
- Yeah, that's a lot of weight.
- Oh yeah, that's a fair amount of weight.
- So if you've got a five gallon bucket
full of feed, it's probably not,
I don't if that's 30 pounds or not.
- But if you're again just starting off,
and you want to work on your your grip strength,
you probably want to carry somebody's purse
or something like that,
but I've seen some women's purses that
weigh over 30 pounds.
(laughing)
- See this does not work,
well this is a kettlebell.
You would probably want a barbell.
I'm just comparing it
to the nice Grip Strengthener.
- Yeah so, we're just trying
to throw some ideas out there,
give you some examples of how you can go ahead
and work on strengthening.
You know gorillas again,
even though they weigh 550 pounds Brad,
- A gorilla does?
- Yeah, like the silverback?
- Yeah.
- They can swing from branch to branch.
Imagine trying to carry that amount of weight.
- Sure.
- And they do it effortlessly, so.
- Well their life depends on it!
- Yeah their life depends on it.
- They're up there 50, 100 feet
in a tree swinging around, it's amazing.
- Fascinating animals aren't they Brad?
- Yep the animal kingdom.
- All right, thanks everybody for watching.