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Hands and Grip

February 26th, 2007 | Category: Training

 

In the past, I’ve written about the importance of hand/grip training.

Training The Hands 

As a young fighter, I suffered through countless hand injuries, including (but not limited to) three fractured hands, a broken arm, and ligament damage to my right wrist.  I was young and ignorant to the importance of hand training. 

If it were not for my injuries, I would probably still be fighting.  There is a good chance that I would have never started my strength and conditioning business.  Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, as I truly do love my job.  At the time however, it was very difficult to swallow.  I would not wish my past injuries on any aspiring fighter.  There is nothing worse than wanting to fight, but being forced out of action by chronic injury. 

For those reading this entry, please learn from my mistakes.  Take the time to train your hands.  Don’t react to injuries, stay ahead of the game with a proactive approach to training.

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For a detailed site dedicated to hand training, check out the link below.  I recently came across this site and it is loaded with useful ideas.

Be sure to browse through the various links contained within the top toolbar:

http://www.gripfaq.com

Ross

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5 Comments so far

  1. Mike February 27th, 2007 12:59 pm

    Ross,

    Gripfaq.com is a great site, good call. Especially the section on hand health. Scott is incredibly knowledgeable. I have personally gone to him many times for tips, not so much for boxing, but even for managing hand care working a computer job.

  2. Scott Styles February 27th, 2007 3:32 pm

    I appreciate the link and kind words. The site is a work in progress that will grow as I learn.

    If anyone is aware of a grip related training site I don’t have listed, shoot me an email at gripfaq at stylesdevelops dot com and I will take a look at it and see about adding the site to the community or stores sections.

    Thanks,
    Scott

  3. Administrator February 27th, 2007 3:37 pm

    Awesome, glad that you’ve stopped by!

    Ross

  4. Anvil or Hammer February 27th, 2007 3:39 pm

    […] Scott Styles and his many year labour of love gripfaq.com have been discovered. Ross Enamait featured Scott’s site in his blog as a great resource on hand health. Ross is very popular and his fame if growing so this is a great thing for Gripfaq and hand strength. […]

  5. pugnaciousboxer February 27th, 2007 10:07 pm

    Also, be sure to work your rotator cuffs… Trust me on that.

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