IN THE NICHE sport of competitive gripping (yes, you read that right), few feats are as impressive as the double-plate pinch hold with two old-school York Barbell 45-pound plates. Plate pinching ...

If the only time you pick up a weight plate is to put it on a barbell, you’re doing it wrong, says Men’s Health Fitness Director BJ Gaddour. Weight plates are fantastic strength tools in and of ...

We’ve worked our crush grip with grippers and our support grip with hangs and deadlift holds. Now it’s time for another type of grip strength: the pinch grip. A strong pinch grip will help you hold ...

LOS ANGELES – Hitting a blur is supposed to be the hardest task in professional sports, and so the notion of amplifying the degree of difficulty is hard to fathom. Yet pinch-hitting does just that, ...