Tips For Neurogrips

Tips For Neurogrips

 

 

Here are some things to keep in mind when using Neurogrips.

 

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Neurogrips are not used alone like the traditional hand grip trainers, but are used with other pieces of fitness equipment, both standard and non-standard that can be gripped with your bare hands.  These include barbells, dumbells, cable attachments, therapy tubing, kettlebells, Indian Clubs, Persian Mil, sledgehammers, ropes, suspension trainers, sleds, etc....  

 

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Once you put on the Neurogrips, the finger webbing is used simply to keep the grips attached to your hands for comfort and for the convenience of decreasing the chance of losing them while moving from one exercise to the next.  As everyone's hand may be a different size, the Neurogrips only need to span the gripping area between the hand and the handle that you are attempting to grip in order to increase the thickness/diameter by approximately 1 inch. 

 

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Straight out of the packaging, Neurogrips may feel slightly stiff.  But as was stated above, they are not meant to be used alone like hand grippers.  You do not put them on and try to squeeze them in order to train your grip.  You put them on, then place your hands with the Neurogrips onto the handle of the fitness device that you are going to lift.  By doing this, Neurogrips will easily wrap around the handle, and you must "CRUSH" the Neurogrips on the handle to truly feel the grip benefits.  This is true functional grip training. 

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No open hand or false grip if you want to maximize your grip.   You will still be challenged with your grip, but you want to include your thumbs.

 

 For the full benefit, make sure you include your thumbs when gripping the device

  

Because Neurogrips are compressible, it allows you to adjust your grip throughout each repetition, particularly during explosive exercises like the kettlebell Snatch so that you can control the speed of the kettlebell as it moves around your wrist.  Just like bare hand training, once you place your hand on the handle, you may want to make adjustments to your hand until you feel comfortable enough to make the lift.  When using Neurogrips, you may want to make the same minor adjustments to the Neurogrips prior to crushing the handle and making the lift.  The more you train with the Neurogrips, the more they will contour to your hand and the less adjustments you will feel the need to make during your training.  They will become an extension of your hand. 

You can see in the following pictures, that although there is a specific "thumb" region of the Neurogrips, when gripping a particular device, your hand/thumbs may not exactly match up with that area of the Neurogrips.  This does not matter, as the Neurogrips encompass the entire handle of the device.  No matter where your thumb lies, you will be compressing a larger diameter/thickness handle. 

 

In the picture below, I exaggerate the position of my thumb to be completely off the "thumb section" of the Neurogrips.  But because the Neurogrips encompass the handle, I still must use my thumb to compress the larger diameter.  The grip challenge created by Neurogrips remains, no matter where the thumb is (unless you use a false or open hand grip) 

 

 

Like any other new training technique, you may initially want to slowly add Neurogrips into your program.  As is with anything, if you are not used to doing something, and you all of a sudden do it repetitively, you may feel sore.  I advise trying one set with Neurogrips and the next without them so that you can feel the difference.  You will notice that the set without Neurogrips is much easier than when using Neurogrips, and in time what was once a challenge to lift bare-handed, will seem much  easier.