Look at these guys. Just go look. Walk into any gym at 5:30 PM. Rows of grown men sit on benches. They stare blankly into mirrors. They look like broken umbrellas. What are they doing? They are doing the wrist curl. It is a total joke. A complete waste of your gym time. They move […]
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Look at the deadlift platforms in any corporate gym today. It makes me want to rip my hair out. Some guy stands there. He has a whole pathetic ritual. First, he dumps half a pound of white chalk on his hands. He claps them together like a little ballerina. Dust goes everywhere. People are coughing. […]
Go into any MMA gym today. Or a climbing gym. You see this everywhere. Some guy is standing over a bucket of rice. He shoves his hands way down inside. He starts twisting his wrists. He wiggles his fingers like a weirdo. He looks like a guy in a bad martial arts movie. He’s trying […]
This is the story of a massive mistake. You have probably made it for years. You sit at your desk right now. You are squeezing a little piece of coiled metal. You honestly think you are building real power. You aren’t. You’re just playing with a plastic toy. The hand gripper is basically a monument […]
Every piece of gear in grip training is optional except one. You can bend without chalk. Without a belt, without shoes, without a gym, without a training partner. You cannot bend without wraps, not safely, not repeatedly, and not for more than about one session before your hands make the decision for you. And yet […]
You’ve watched the videos. Someone wraps a bar, sets their hands, and folds a piece of steel that a hydraulic press would respect. Part of you wants to try it. The other part is doing math on your wrists. That hesitation is fair. It’s also mostly aimed at the wrong thing. The injuries people imagine […]
You bent the last one. You’ve been training. Your forearms are visibly bigger than they were three months ago. And this bar will not move. Not “moves a little.” Not “almost.” It sits there, dead, like you’re squeezing a fence post. Here’s what’s actually happening: most stalled bends are not a strength problem. They’re one […]
Some kid in the 70s saw a guy on TV tear a deck of cards in half. Him and his brothers thought that looked fun, so they drove to a store, bought a deck, and got back in the car. He was in the driver’s seat when his brother handed it to him. He tore […]
In 1955 there was a 62-year-old man working the back of a Dodge truck at a farmers market in Pennsylvania, selling homeopathic soap and lotions to the locals. Between sales pitches he’d bend horseshoes, snap chains across his chest, and bite nails clean in half. Then he’d dare somebody in the crowd to bend a […]
The guy who built IronMind once called a certain style of steel bending “practicing for crucifixion.” He wasn’t being nice about it. There was a whole argument in the grip world about whether that grip made a hard certification too easy. He was talking about a body position that removes all your leverage and dumps […]