Blacksmith 30 mm Straight Handle Grip

Our 30 mm is the perfect companion for all your triceps, biceps and reverse flies.

Made of Solid Steel with a chrome finish and with an medium aggressive volcano knurl, you'll get a piece of art as well as a powerful training tool.

Slightly bigger diameter than a regular weightlifting bar (30 mm vs 28 mm), you'll get some benefits from a wider grip training (see below).

And the straight handle provides a neutral grip, optimal for wrist function.

Weighting at 1 kg says a lot about the Quality you get with our Blacksmith series : Craftmanship and attention to details.

BENEFITS OF GRIP TRAINING:

1. Your hand, grip and upper body strength will increase as well as your endurance. 
2. Training with fat grips or thick bars will increase the time under tension within the muscles and send repeated signals to the muscle tissue to contract. 
3. Eliminate Annoying Elbow Pain and Carpal Tunnel: by incorporating fat grip training, you will also benefit from having healthier elbow joints and eliminating common alignments such as golfer's elbow and tennis elbow. You will also reduce the symptoms or eliminate carpal tunnel entirely just by using fat grip implements.
4. Improve your grip strength without extra grip work: if you only have a limited time to train and want to get the most out of your training sessions then using thick grip bars will improve your grip strength without having to do extra grip training work.
5. Improving grip strength can increase overall pressing strength by up to 10%! When training with thicker grip dumbbells, your wrist extensors, and flexors will be switched on due to the fact that you physically have to squeeze the handle harder. This added stimulus will strengthen these muscles and improve the grip compared to using regular thin-grip dumbbells.
6. Get stronger faster by increasing neural drive: When using thick grips, you increase neural drive to the working muscles. Let’s take the chin-up exercise as an example. When performing chin-ups with fat grips versus thin grips, your grip has to work harder to hold onto the handles. When your grip is working harder, your brain has to send more signals to muscles in the forearms to switch on all the time while performing the overall movement of pulling yourself upwards. When there is more neural drive being applied, then you are able to improve your training due to the increased activation in the musculature. At first, the movement will be difficult but through training your strength will increase far beyond what you could normally achieve in that time frame by using thin grips. You can test this by switching to fat grips and then switching back to thin grips. You’ll notice right away. 

Technical Specs

• Material: Solid Steel
• Finish: Hard Chrome
• Knurling: Medium-aggressive volcano knurling
• Diameter: 30 mm
• Length: 22 cm
• Weight: 1 kg