Okay, so I'll let y'all in on a secret here for incredible hand and arm strength. I found it out thanks to a Marine Drill Instructor buddy some 40 or so years ago. Guy was built like a bulldog with a 19-1/2" neck and 50+" chest, just plain powerful. It's so simple it's amazing but I absolutely guarantee you'll be shocked at the effectiveness. The bigger city you live in the better. You'll find out why.
If you don't subscribe already, run down to your closest news stand and grab a newspaper, a weekly edition. Take it home, plop down in a comfortable chair and read what you want, but if there's any good news I'd be surprised. When finished take a single sheet of newspaper by the corner WITH ONE HAND. Now all you have to do is crumple it up, USING ONLY ONE HAND, into a little ball that you can close your fist around. I rather doubt you can make it through page 2 unless you milk a large herd of cows every morning. Doing this daily with progressively more sheets as you gain strength will give you more hand, forearm and even upper arm and shoulder strength than you could ever imagine. It is the only exercise that works every single muscle and sinew in the entire hand and forearm. You can also raise arms to shoulder height to work more muscles.
By the time you're up to a Sunday edition of the LA Times, the whole blasted thing, you'll be able to easily tear telephone books in half without using the tricks to do it! Be careful, because at that point you can also easily break someone's hand when shaking! No, I'm not exaggerating. Back then I was still in the wild and crazy mode and my buddy and I would go hit the bars. I'm a slight build and he'd pick the biggest guys and bet them a $5'er that I could beat them arm wrestling. The other guy didn't have a chance because I would nearly break his hand with my grip before we even started. We made good money, NEVER LOST! My bud could squeeze a sealed beer can, before poptops, and blow the top out of it!
Try it out, you'll be very surprised.
The newspaper method does work. I began doing it about 50 years ago.
By the time I was 35 I could have gotten a job in a slaughterhouse strangling cows.
I had forearms like popeye. Just as well since I was a chief boatswains mate anyway.
Cool, thanks for the feedback on that! It really is amazing for how simple it is and as mentioned, it targets every single muscle in the whole forearm and hand, also upper arms and shoulders benefit if a person raises arms while doing it.
