Grease the Groove Grip Training

Given that I like to participate in ultra length OCR races grip strength plays an important part in successfully achieving many of the obstacles.  While exercises that utilize grip, such as dead hangs, farmers carries, and others make frequent appearances in my lifting routines one of things that has started to become a habit is getting in some extra grip work in grease the groove style.  I like to keep a pair of Captains of Crush grippers at a difficulty that I can close 10-12 times on my desk when I work.  Every time I get up and come back to my desk I can give the grippers 4-5 quick squeezes with each hand and can easily get at least 5 or 6 such sets in each work day.  For me at least, grip strength seems to require more frequent training to make solid gains and this has been a great way to get some of that extra frequency in.  It’s also an exercise that is workplace friendly in that it’s unobtrusive and won’t make you work up a sweat.