Strengthen Your Grip For Wrestling

Being a wrestler in High School, College or at International level; grip strength training needs to be an important of your workout. Being able to control your opponent because you have a stronger grip could be a decisive key to the outcome of your match. You can exercise your grip strength 2 or 3 times a week during the off season, but when you are competing you need to cut it back to just once in a while so you can maintain some strength. Below are a couple examples of the many workouts you can use.

Climbing robe is one of the best, it not only strengthens the forehand and arms but the shoulders as well. Even just grasping the rope and hanging till you drop will give results. If you could attach or tie a thick rope to something heavy and pull it hand over fist to you, you would also get an excellent forearm workout, just keep at it until your forearms are burning.

Using barbells and dumbbells with a thick bar is much better than using the standard type. You can make your regular bar thicker by wrapping a towel around the bar and taping it on. A thicker bar will give your grip more of a challenge. With this thicker grip on the dumbbells, do farmer walks where you carry two dumbbells at your side for some distance or till you can no longer hold them. This not only develops your forearms and hands but it also gives your hips a workout too.

There are many more exercises you can do from wrist rollers to pinch grip workouts. Do not continue to do the same exercises, do as many as you can so you prevent any imbalance in the muscle development.

Go to Grip Strength for more info on improving your grip strength for sports. Tim Archbold's interests are Fitness Training and Health.