The hand’s dexterity and its gripping power couldn’t be more important in most sporting activities and games. Whether it’s catching, throwing, grasping, holding, manipulating, tackling, or applying bodily force this area of the human structure must not be neglected.

The Pendulum Grip Cart

In strength training the pinch grip is holding an object between the palmar surface of the fingers and the opposing thumb. The adductor pollicis, dorsal interosseous and flexor pollicis brevis are the primary muscles recruited and developed in this action.

Pinch gripping can be trained in multiple ways;

using a tip pinch, one digit and the thumb, a tripod pinch, using two digits and the thumb and a lateral pinch grip, whereby the thumb is adducted and flexed during the movement.

Pinching Tools to Enhance Grasping

The Pendulum Grip Cart provides an assortment of devices that develop the fingers when using a pinch grip enhancing overall grasping power.