I’ve been playing with these hand grippers for the better part of a year, and can just about close the # 2 gripper, and the # 3 is just for laughs (as in it laughs at me). I’m a reasonably strong guy and can bench press around 290 but these hand grippers blow me away.
And then I look at videos of guys (and not huge guys either) doing this kind of thing(15 repeated closes with a # 3). It’s so depressing. I feel like a little girl looking at these videos.
astro honey, you need to get out more. What exactly is the point of having an uber-strong grip? It’s not like chicks go “Oooooh look at the hands on that dude! They’re totally ripped!”
All the better to CRUSH YOUR HEAD with!
Well, not until he can at least close the #2, for pete’s sake!
Now you’ve made me cry! <cries>
Be careful wiping your tears away with those ubermitts of yours. I wouldn’t want you to accidentally put out an eye…
They don’t call it “jerking off” for nothin’ :eek:
So you can lift bigger weights.
Speak for yourself dearie!
Oh right, and you’ve never played the weak and feeble maid who needs help opening the jar of pickle?
And then laughed as your gallant hero wrestles with the jar, turns purple and starts muttering about slippery hands?
No… I’ve played the “pissed that I can’t open the G*ddamn jar” woman, though. And I’m more likely to say “bah, it must’a been already tired!” when he opens it effortlessly.
As a labmate once put it: “I hate saying this… (lifts some stuck glassware up) I need a man here!”
You never actually see the skinny guy close them one-handed. The left hand obscures the view. Are you sure he is not using the left to assist the right? After he opens the grips, he never closes them again.
I only say “I need a strong guy” when at work - because at home I use either the handle of a spoon to break the vacuum, or a silicon hand grip. Voila, no effort. (As for stuck glassware, the trick is to use hot and cold water.)
That’s why men have muscles, and women have brains. 
In your case, it’s probably genetic disposition of muscles. But other than showing off, or going climbing, what do you need them for?
Well, if you develop a really strong grip, the muscles involved are in your forearms. This looks good if you’re reasonably muscular in general; if you’re a skinny dude with big forearms, the image of Popeye is unavoidable.
I use regular grippers to maintain hand strength for SCA fighting, but don’t know the poundage involved. The higher-level “Captains of Crush” grippers sound like they’re for fanatics.
I’m an old guy. Been there, done that on the <eyelash flutter> “Oh, could you do this?” thing. At work the favorite thing is a mechanical rest, which has to be lifted, and turned. I get asked all the time to do it. I generally do it with one finger. I flutter my eyelashes and say, “Not strong, just smart.”
Tris
Okay. You win.
But I will seek my revenge!
Crush! Crush!
Yarrr, I ran into that after I spent a couple summers as a deckhand on a salmon boat in Alaska. I’m a skinny guy, but I came back with Popeye arms from handling the nets, ropes and fish. It looked funny, but G.I. Joe had nothin’ on my kung fu grip.
