Proper Savage Hand Strength Tools

The strength that really matters is hand strength. If you can't hold it, you can't lift it. There is an old saying: "lifting weights will get you very good at carrying bags of groceries."

There is some serious truth to that. If you only use barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, and machines with standard sized handles, your body will look - and be - very strong. But in order to utilize the majority of that strength in real life, you are going to need to strengthen your hands to the point that they can hold the amounts of weight that the rest of your body can lift, but while clasping variously shaped and sized objects.

The traditional strongmen of old always trained with thick handled bars as their primary hand strengthening method. The reason is that when the fingers can warp all the way around the bar, the fingers and thumb are not having to work very hard to remain closed over the bar. 

However, if you use a fat handled dumbbell, barbell, etc, your fingers are not able to warp all the way around it. Thus they have to maintain a high degree of contractile tension throughout the entire exercise, thereby strengthening themselves tremendously so that you are able to lift many thick and oddly shaped objects in real life. 

The other primary method of strengthening the hands favored by the strongmen of old was the pinch grip. The pinch grip is the key to bringing the thumb strength up to the level of the fingers' strength. 

Since we only have one thumb per four fingers, in order to clasp anything in real life that doesn't allow the fingers to wrap around at all, the thumb has to carry its share of the load single handedly, no pun intended. 

Thus the pinch grip has a tremendous ability to revolutionize your functional hand strength. And thereby massively increase your genuinely functional real life strength. When your pinch grip gets stronger, you quickly notice nearly every physical pursuit in your life rapidly getting easier. 

You effortlessly pick up odd shaped objects that used to require serious effort. You toss things around with one hand that used to require the full strength of both of your hands. You shake another man's hand and suddenly notice the odd sensation that his hand feels very fragile and vulnerable in yours, and you realize that if you wanted to, you could crush it.

Here at Proper Savage, we believe in the same two primary hand strengthening tools that the strongmen of old used: fat handles and pinch grip. 

Our Pinch Gripper's are the first and only truly convenient way to train pinch grip using the equipment that you already have. You can slap them on a set of dumbbells in less than one second, perform your set, and then pop them right off and walk over to the cable machine and slap them right on to the handles on that and perform your set, moving seamlessly about the room, training your hands strength in the most superior way, but with not inconvenience of long setup times for each exercise.