Have you ever worked a job where you handed out change? Like a cashier? How about working in a drive thru?
I worked at Burger King. I remember handing out drinks, food, change, condiments, napkins, and I’m sure there are more things I can’t think of right now.
I also remember feeling the soft office worker hands and thinking that there’s something namby pamby about a guy with soft hands.
To consider yourself fit, you need to have a certain degree of strength. You’re ignoring a very elemental gift—life and a body—when you allow your body to become weak through disuse. It’s totally contrary to the human species’ physical roots.
Maybe our ‘health care system that we can’t afford’ is due to ignoring our elemental, physical nature. I’m certain that most obesity is.
One way to start developing your physical self is by training your hands with the Captains of Crush. Considering that we interact with almost every physical object primarily through our hands, maybe, just maybe, it might be a good to idea to develop them.
I know of no better way to develop hands than through kettlebell training and Iron Mind Captains of Crush Grippers. Here’s what having several pairs of these things on your desk will do for you:
- Give you and iron grip (Important for physical tasks like pounding nails, picking things up, cooking with iron cookware, shaking hands, arm wrestling and throttling would be muggers.)
- Develop and strengthen your forearms
- Develop and strengthen your shoulders
- Teach you how to contract all the muscles in your body to generate force (it takes a lot of force to close a gripper that requires 195 pounds of pressure)
You can strengthen your entire upper body by using hand grippers. Not run of the mill hand grippers though. Captains of Crush hand grippers.
If you play any kind of sports, you need hand strength. Baseball, softball, football, boxing, MMA, basketball—you need hand strength.
Hand strength is easy to develop with the Captains of Crush. If you squeeze these grippers 3-5 times per day, 5 days per week, for a month straight, your entire upper body will be stronger. Your stomach, your back, your lats, your shoulders, your biceps, triceps, forearms, AND your hands.
It sounds ridiculous. But give it a try. Go here: http://www.ironmind.com/ironmind/opencms/Main/captainsofcrush.html and get some grippers.
Figure out where you should start and buy that gripper. Then buy the next two above it. Put them on your desk. Squeeze them. 3-5 times per day. Some days go harder. Some days go lighter. Every fourth week do a little less than you’ve been doing to let your self recover. Then start over again and ramp it up.
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