DIY Hand Grip

Strong hands make powerful exercise possible. 

If you are lifting heavy weights its necessary that your hands, wrists and forearms can take the weight. Wrist wraps are often used to enlarge the grip on bars and handles. The grip force is rarely trained separately. Nevertheless it is important to do so, because strong hands make heavy work possible.

No more soft handshakes.

This hand grip can even improve your social and professional life, because a firm handshake gives a confident, strong impression with your friends and colleagues.

Just get your grip together and within an hour you can start to exercise.

Note for conversion to inch visit this site: http://www.linuxfocus.org/~guido/javascript/cm-inch-conversion.html

Materials needed:

• Wooden stick 24 mm thick
• Steel shaft 6 mm thick

Tools needed

• Vise
• Steel tube 25 mm thick
• Drill
• Drill bit 6 mm
• Hacksaw
• Wood wax

Measure 9 cm on the shaft .This is the point where the curl starts. Lock the steel shaft within the vise right-angled with the tube. Turn the steel shaft two and a half times round the tube to create a nice curl. This curl will act as a spring. Measure 9 cm from the end of the curl and cut  the rest of with a hacksaw.

Saw two pieces of the wooden stick each 10 cm long.

Drill a 5 cm hole in the top of each piece. Sand the pieces.

Wax the pieces with wood wax.

Insert the steel end pieces in the wooden pieces.

Note: it’s a tight  fit so I didn't use glue to hold them together.

Start working-out.

3 sets of 30 reps a day will give you a firm grip in no time.

Enjoy!