Hey Guys what's going on Chris Sajnog here founder of the new rules of
marksmanship and in this video I want to teach you how to use the captains of
crush grippers to help improve your grip strength now let's go ahead and get
started
all right so why is it important first off to even improve your grip strength
well when it comes to shooting pistols especially a lot of people tell you the
grip is the king of consistency and here's why if you were able to put your
pistol in a vice grip and crank it all the way down you could do anything you
want to that trigger and the bullets are all going to go through the same hole so
that's what we want to do for your grip strength so you can do the same thing
when you're shooting a pistol so to improve your grip strength one of the
best tools I've found is the captains of crush gripper and these are very
well-made they're not like the cheap grippers that I grew up with and saw as
a kid these are very good and they will last and that's why I highly recommend
you use these but one thing I do recommend doing before you start using
the gripper and this is each and every time is to warm up the muscles in your
hands for that I use the iron mind green egg I
just sit and squeeze this and usually my knuckles will crack and make lots of
noises I'll start to feel them get warmed up and I'll probably do this for
a couple minutes and the other thing that I use this green egg for is for
working on my trigger finger strength and also a lot of people I know have
problems like hitting their magazine release button so you can actually
practice working on the strength of your thumb so you can drop that mag a lot
easier and a lot faster and then it's time to move on to the grippers now the
grippers come in 11 different strengths so I have this one here that I use just
for warming up and then this is a number one and the number one is usually what I
trained with and if you are an adult male this would probably be the one that
I would recommend for you to start off with so what I do with mine is I keep
all of this in my car because there's lots of times that I'm just stuck in
traffic or on a long road trip and I Drive into the office everyday and
that's a great opportunity for one of my hands to obviously be on the wheel
and the other one to be getting some grip strength exercise in so after I
warm up for a little bit I usually will do 10 grips in one hand 10 grips in the
other and then I'll do grip and hold in both hands to do the grip you want to
make sure that your fingers are in the right place your pinkie should be right
about at the bottom of the gripper you don't want it up this high because that
would not allow you to get the leverage you need and even though the pinkie you
know poor little guy doesn't do too much work we don't want him hanging off
because we do want him to help out as much as he thinks he can that is how you
do it so again I will do 10 closes in one hand and then I will switch do 10
closes in the other hand and then I will do a grip and hold where I squeeze it
closed and then I just count to ten with a grip or closed like that I don't think
it's too important that you stick to that routine you can definitely come up
with your own maybe you could put them at your house and when you're watching
TV use them there so one last bonus tip that I want to throw out there for you
is it's very important to use any grip strength exercise or in the position
that you're going to need to use that so what do I mean well when you shoot a
pistol your arm is going to be out you want to exercise your muscles with your
arm out like that so when you're doing this make sure that your arm is straight
out and you can also do that with your wrist so anyways that's all I have for
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