If you secretly wonder whether you could actually handle yourself in a real confrontation…If people comment on your physique but your handshake is forgettable…Then this 19th-century strongman secret exercise called steel bending will completely transform how you think about functional grip strength and forearm development.
Chris Rider says he grew up in a small town outside York, Pennsylvania, about 45 [...]
In 1998 a grip guy from Bean Station, Tennessee named Joe Kinney picked up a [...]
You bought a CoC set two years ago. Closed the Trainer the first night. Knocked [...]
Early in the 1900s, an English strongman named Thomas Inch had a dumbbell cast that [...]
Three minutes into a roll. Your forearms feel like sand has been poured into them. [...]
The box is on your kitchen table. You’re about to spend the next month figuring [...]
Most home gyms look the same when you walk in. Rogue rack against the back [...]
During World War I, a Russian soldier named Alexander Zass got captured by the Austrians. [...]
You hit lockout on a heavy single. Back solid. Hips stacked. Bar at the hips. [...]
In 1895, in Boston, a French-Canadian named Louis Cyr got under a platform with 18 [...]
Walk into any serious lifter’s gym bag and you’ll find one of two things in [...]
You walk into your garage. There’s a 7-inch piece of solid steel on the workbench. [...]
In 1992, a magazine feature on the world’s top grip men profiled a guy named [...]
The weak handshake is the cliché. The reality is broader and more concerning. If your [...]
In 1955 there was a 62-year-old man working the back of a Dodge truck at [...]
Some kid in the 70s saw a guy on TV tear a deck of cards [...]
Twelve bars. From accessible to unhinged. The bottom rung is a 190-LBS bar that 95% [...]
Captains of Crush is the OG. Randy Strossen launched the line in 1990 and the [...]
Every piece of gear in grip training is optional except one. You can bend without [...]
Steve Justa spent almost his whole life in Harvard, Nebraska, a farm town most people [...]
“If you want a handshake that makes other men question their masculinity, pick up short [...]
Forget the gym for grip work. Most commercial gyms have terrible grip equipment. A few [...]
At the 1980 World’s Strongest Man, one of the events was bending a steel bar. [...]
You bent the last one. You’ve been training. Your forearms are visibly bigger than they [...]
In the early 1950s, an Australian named John Landy ran the mile in 4:02. Then [...]
Around 1900, a German circus strongman named Arthur Saxon was one of the strongest men [...]
Picture a guy at Coney Island in 1928. Five-foot-four. Polish accent. Skinny by any modern [...]
You finish a heavy back day. Forearms feel inflated. Veins popping. Muscles full of cement. [...]
The “60 kg standard” comes from clinical research. Specifically the kind of research where they [...]
The pain shows up on the outside of your elbow first. Sharp twinge when you [...]
You’ve watched the videos. Someone wraps a bar, sets their hands, and folds a piece [...]
Dustin Poirier described what losing to Islam Makhachev’s grip actually felt like: “When he gets [...]
Hang from a pull-up bar. Don’t pull up. Don’t kip. Just hang. See how long [...]
Two guys take their shirts off at the gym. Guy A has visibly developed forearms. [...]
The guy who built IronMind once called a certain style of steel bending “practicing for [...]
