David Horne’s Vulcan Hand Gripper – An Essential Tool for Building Grip Strength

This is a guest post by Bestcovery.com fitness equipment expert and grip strength training enthusiast Jeff Wilson.

Up until Just a few short years ago the only experience I had with grip specific training involved playing around with some plastic handled hand grippers that you can buy at most sporting goods stores.  Even among the heartiest of these grippers, there wasn’t a whole lot of resistance and I didn’t see much way that using them on a regular basis would be of much benefit to my strength training at all.

I didn’t give a whole lot of thought to grip training beyond those cheap plastic grippers until I accidentally stumbled upon the Diesel Crew website and subsequently the GripBoard grip strength forum.  It was through those two websites that I was introduced to “real” hand grippers like the Captains of Crush grippers from IronMind.  After finding this devoted group of individuals and high quality training equipment, grip specific training became somewhat of an addiction for me.

After loading up on dozens of CoCs, BBs, RBs and HGs I thought I’d never need another tool to build grip strength – and I was probably right, then I stumbled upon David Horne’s website.  Horne is an arm wrestling and grip strength legend and he’d developed what appeared to be the ultimate tool for developing crush strength – the Vulcan Hand Gripper.

The Vulcan was a bit more expensive than the torsion grippers that I’d been using, but it had a unique advantage over them as well – it was completely adjustable.  Horne’s Vulcan effectively replaced every single gripper that I had in my collection, plus added dozens of additional levels of resistance that I didn’t have, allowing me to experiment with maximum effort single rep training or with high volume, high rep training all with the very same piece of equipment.

Horne’s Vulcan is rock solid and very well built and after hundreds of workouts and thousands of reps it is still every bit as fluid and functional as the day it arrived at my door.  Of course, I still have an affinity for torsion grippers and still use them on a regular basis, but I can honestly say that if I had found David Horne’s Vulcan before I went on my torsion gripper shopping spree I’d have far less grip equipment to store but I believe that I’d be every bit as strong in the grip department.

If you are into grip training and need a highly versatile tool or if you are planning on getting into grip training and want to start out at the top of the food chain in terms of equipment – invest in this gripper, you will not be disappointed.