The World's Best Hand & Grip Strength Training Instruction
Here's the Real Scoop on Ligament Strength and the Hands
Many of
the Oldtime
Strength authors concentrated specifically of the tendon strength of
their hands.
Here's a great passage from one of the best known of the old time
strength
writers, George Jowett:
"...You may wonder how your wrist will become improved by any forearm
practice , so
before we go any further, lat me enlighten you upon the fact that the
muscles all
taper off into ligaments. The weaker the muscles, the more stringy and
thin are
these cables. The stronger and bulkier they build up, the thicker the
ligaments
become. As these ropes of connection taper off at the wrist, it is
only a
natural condition that the wrist size should be increased.
When I commenced heavy exercise, I had only a seven inch wrist, just
an average
size as I have said, but to-day my wrist measures every bit of eight an
a half
inches... The sinews that have massed upon the wrist are very heavy..."
That was published back waaaaaaaay back in 1926.
Here's a more recent passage by an interesting fellow named Mike Brown:
"... [John Y] Smith's hands looked like iron claws. Years of one handed
deadlifting
with thick handled barbells had so thickened Smith's finger tendons in
the palm
of his hand that those same tendons stood out like the webbing on a
duck's feet... "
I can say from experience that both of these men speak the truth.
Years of exercising the way I do has thickened my wrist sinews as
George Jowett
talks about and I also have the "webbing" effect on the back of my
hands that
Mike Brown talks about. In my opinion, you can train your grip and
ignore the
ligament development...but not for long. At some point you don't want
the cable to
be weaker than the crane. Know what I mean Vern?
