Captains of Crush Hand Gripper - No. 1

At first I could only close the #1 gripper 1 time in each hand. After a month I can now close it 10 times in the right and 5 times in the left. It is very high quality and I recommend it for people who have some hand gripping experience. Most of my friends could not close it.

I've known about and these grippers since 1998. I've owned them for about eight years; although I have not used them consistently. I own the Guide, Sport, Training, and 1. I've used, limited though, "sporting goods store" grippers in the past, and didn't not find them difficult to use.

These grippers are an excellent hand strength builder, especially for doing things like pinching, grabbing, and overall strength. When I use to work out 4 days a week, I could only close the Trainer. I used a straps to hold heavier wieghts to do shrugs and olympic lifting training. When I trained with them, I found I could hold more wieght without the straps.

I wasn't really able to appreciate how difficult these grippers were, till I brought them to work, a pizzeria, so I could do a few sets here and there. Out of the four or five people who tried the trainer, only one person was able to close it completely. Most were in the half to three quarters. I've only been able to recently close the #1, with several sets a day of training using the Trainer and Sport; On the verge of over training.

As to the rough grip comment, it true they "can" be rough. It's just like the non slip grip portion of barbells and deadlift and bench bars, some bars for cable machines, and so forth. If you find those to hurt when you use them, these will irratate the hands as well. Unfortunately, it does take some time to get use to them. As to soft hands going away, two suggestions, 1) use a brimmice stone on the calluses, 2) use plenty of moisturizer thoughout the day; I prefer intensive healing. Of course, these should be used anyway because some lifts are know to rip off calluses.

A great product for anyone who is serious about weight training. Grip strength can be often overlooked but is essential to most of your pulling exercises.

Pros- Durable, convenient, a great challenge

Cons- None

I have owned this gripper for a few months now and i must say i am completely satisfied. It looks cool, is well built, and is very effective. When it first arrived a was not able to close it, but with months of training with this gripper alongside other forearms exercise, closing this gripper is a piece of cake. I think i am about ready to move on to No. 2. This definitely a great product. If you haven't really trained that much you may want to start with the trainer before purchasing the No. 1 just to prepare yourself.

The COC Grippers are fun to use, a challenge everytime and the results are second to none. The No.1 I would say is a challenge for most people, therefore a good place to start. The trainer may be good as well so you have one you can use to do higher reps for a warm-up and get the blood moving in your hands and forearms. If you're a weight lifter and want to ease off on using straps in your workouts this is the tool to have. If you can't close this crusher once when you first give it a go, don't fret, in just a few weeks you'll be squeezing out reps. Also, you can kiss your soft hands goodbye.