Fat Gripz Pro – Thick Grips For Increased Muscle Fiber Activation (Winner Of 3 Men’s Health Magazine Awards)

Like a lot of powerlifters/bodybuilders, my gym bag is loaded with personal “essentials” that play an integral part of my workout regimen (knee sleeves, wraps, chalk, bar clamps, bands, etc.). I’m always open-minded to adding new gadgets that may supplement my workouts and decided to buy a pair of FAT GRIPZ. I am impressed with the results I’ve experienced since incorporating these grips and I find a way to implement them into every workout.WHAT THEY ARE:FAT GRIPZ are cylinders made of a rubber-like compound that are meant to be placed around a bar to provide a wider grip surface for enhancing grip/forearm strength. A lengthwise slit on the grips make it easy to add/remove the grips from bar. FAT GRIPZ fit snuggly around most Olympic bars, but I find them working well with thinner bars, certain dumbbells, ropes, pulley attachments and certain stationary machines (Hammer, Smith, Cybex, etc.).WHY I LOVE MY FAT GRIPZ:- What I like best about the FAT GRIPZ is that they add versatility to most any exercise that involves a bar-like gripping platform. Easy to attach and remove, I bring them with me through the entire workout to add dimension to and existing exercise or create new exercises. Using them for standard lifts like bench press, deadlifts and shrugs adds a notable dynamic to the lifts in terms of difficulty and muscle engagement.- Portability … you can bring them to every exercise with the same convenience of a water bottle or lifting belt.- Durable construction and safe to use. FAT GRIPZ are solid and well-made. I can literally see these grips lasting my entire lifting-life. The rubber-like compound offers a solid gripping surface that not only eliminates the need for chalk, but adds a better grip to older bars with worn knurling. Of course, any gym exercise involves an element of danger, especially when weights are involved. FAT GRIPZ are safe … when used properly and with a degree of common sense. Users should know the dynamics of push/pull exercises to determine which way the slit is facing (toward the palms for pulling exercises and away from the palms for pushing exercises) to avoid the grips from popping off … or knowing when NOT to use the grips.- The grips can enhance most any workout, regardless of your lifting “category”: powerlifting, bodybuilding, Crossfit, Olympic lifting, strongman, etc. It doesn’t take long to yield noticeable results. No, I’m not talking about Mr. Olympia forearms showing-up after a few weeks, but more the subtle creep of increasing hand grip/pinch grip strength and a noticeable increase in stabilization when handling Olympic Bar presses (flat/incline/decline and military presses).FAT GRIPZ take some time to get used to in the beginning … and you likely won’t be able to load as much weight to many exercised. As someone who could deadlift over 600 lbs. in competition, simply pulling 315 off the floor with FAT GRIPZ was not easy because my grip was confined to a pinch hold that made it hard to hold the bar for any extended period. Pushing exercises are much easier, but the wide grip will challenge your wrist/forearm stabilization … I’ll use the grips for reps, but not for a max press.EXERCISES THAT I FOUND USEFUL FOR FAT GRIPZ:- Olympic Bar: flat/incline/decline bench press (for reps, not max), J.M. presses, close grip, military press, deadlifts and shrugs, curls.- Dumbbells: not all dumbbells will accommodate FAT GRIPZ, but pretty much any dumbbell exercise will work (using common-sense, of course)- Odd bars: I find the FAT GRIPZ working well with specialty bars that are thinner than standard Olympic Bars. Yes, the grips may rotate on an inert bar, but should not rotate when the exercise starts (the resistance of the weight will keep the grips in place).- Cable machines: I find the grips fitting a myriad of cable attachments and if the grips fit the attachment, they can be used for a variety of exercises from rows, pull downs, curls and extensions.- Free standing machines: I can apply the grips to most any of my gym’s plethora of Hammer Strength, Cybex and Smith machines.- Pull-up bars and anything else the grips fit … I’ll try it.No other gym tool I’ve used have the versatility of the FAT GRIPZ. This is one of the best products for working out I’ve ever owned. A final word of advice: Start out with the standard (blue) FAT GRIPZ before “graduating” to the EXTREME (orange) FAT GRIPZ (unless your hands are abnormally large). These grips should be challenging enough, the orange grips are a big step up in difficulty.

I ordered these on Prime day and saved a few additional dollars. I just finished my first arm workout with them and I was impressed. I've worked out off and on for 25 years. Religiously for about 10 years and then sporadically after marriage and my career took up more of my time.I can't remember when I had a better biceps pump after a workout. Fat gripz challenged my arms in a completely different way than what I am used to. Some free and hopefully helpful advice and my thoughts on some of the reviews and comments I've read here. First, a few people have used the term "snake oil" to describe this product implying that it is fraudulent. I believe continued use of these will give you very good results. I've been lifting long enough to be able to tell if something will work for me fairly quickly. That being said - in lifting like most all things in life positive results do not come overnight. You have to consistently put in the time and effort. Aside from training hard you also need plenty of rest and good nutrition to get the most out of your body.If you haven't been lifting very long you should probably stick with the basic dumbbell and barbell curls until you gain strength and arm development. I would then try these after you reach a sticking point in your arm training. You get bigger and stronger by confusing your muscles i.e. when they begin to adapt to an exercise and load you do something different.I used these on an Olympic barbell and a set of York dumbbells. No slipping on either one but there was a small gap in the fat gripz that didn't affect me at all. I lifted with the gap out of contact with my hands and also with the gap touching my hands and it didn't make a difference to me. I typically use chalk when I work out and these have a nice tackiness to the material that is easy to grip without chalk, resin, etc.Elite level lifters in a variety of strength sports have been using thicker (larger diameter) bars for some time now to increase strength. Those bars can cost hundreds of dollars. You can get most of the same benefits with fat gripz at a fraction of the cost.These aren't essential to getting big and strong. You can definitely get there without fat gripz but I like them and feel they are well worth the cost as an addition to my home gym. I also do grip strength exercises and feel these will help in that area as well.Bottom line for me - adds a new dimension to my workout program, seem to be very durable, and are not too expensive. I don't regret my purchase at all. I went from being pipe cleaner skinny in high school (135 lbs) to 6'5" 275 lbs thanks to working out. I'm far from an expert but do know a thing or do about lifting - most of the negative comments about this product seem to come from people who may not know as much about lifting as they like to think they do. I rely on reviews when purchasing products. These have almost 1500 reviews with the majority of them being overwhelmingly positive. That tells me something.These also come in a package that states - "For maximum results and safety do not use these until you visit fatgripz.com/secret. That is the only part I'm not satisfied with. If they have information they want to share they should include it in the packaging. I went to the website and they want you to download a file to view the big secret and learn how to use these safely. Well, I'll pass on the download. I think I can get the results I expect and frankly, if you can't figure out how to use these safely you might want to pursue a hobby that doesn't involve lifting heavy weights.

Tried these out at home on dumbbells, but today was my first real test using them on cables at the gym. Instantly noticed a difference in grip engagement and overall tension. After just a week of using them consistently, I’m already feeling the pump and seeing subtle improvements in forearm fullness and arm activation.Can’t wait to keep progressing with these, might be time to level up to the thicker version soon 😉 Thanks Fat Gripz for making such a simple but insanely effective tool.