Pinch Grip Training

Here are a couple of recent pinch lifts I've been doing for training my grip strength.



First up is the 37kg Plate Pinch and Clean, the discs are some old one's I got made years ago and are about 33mm thick each.







Here's my 56 lb (25.4kg) Farm Weight Pinch from a couple of nights ago. My Dad had this weight in his shed for years and I've messed around with it for long enough. I've thrown it before when I was training for Highland Games and been trying to pinch it for about a month. The weight is 5 inches across so is quite a wide pinch (careful with pinches this wide, it's so easy to mess your thumb up which will take months to repair - BE WARNED!!!)







If you don't have any equipment to pinch then I suggest making this simple Pinch Grip Lever



On the subject of 56lb Weights - my last visit to Scotland inspired me to buy Gordon Dinnies book about Donald Dinnie. In the book it is talked about Donald Dinnie throwing the 56lb weight over 40 feet from a standing position. I cannot get my head around something like that. It took me a spin and a half to get it 34 and half feet.



In addition to this one of Donald's party tricks was to hold a 56lb weight in the palm of his hand at arms length (again wow!), he could even do this well into his 60's. Maybe one to try!



I hope to get up to Potarch again before too long to have another go at the Dinnie Stones