Great Ape Grips Review

Welcome to Grapplers Graveyard, we are on a quest to help each one of you find products that help you take your Jiu-Jitsu training to the next level. These past couple of weeks I have been obsessing over grip strength. I have now bought a handful of products at this point and am always on the hunt to find products that work and make me a better athlete. This time around we wrote a review on the Great Ape Grips Rice Bag training tool which allows us to have a way to do the traditional rice bucket training on the go.

This post is our Great Ape Grips Review, let’s dive in!

What is Rice Bucket Training?

If you are a baseball player, you know what rice bucket training is. These exercises are great for building forearm strength, grip strength, and elbow strength and is most commonly used by Baseball players. Typically, a paint bucket will be filled with 25 lbs of rice and athletes will stick their hands inside the rice, moving their hands around in various ways to feel the burning sensation of workout.

Over time, athletes see huge gains in their forearm size and their overall grip strength. This simple exercise is usually done in 10 to 12-minute intervals.

What is Great Ape Grips?

Great Ape Grips had the genius idea of making the rice buck training method more accessible, clean, and overall easier to perform from pretty much everywhere. Great Ape Gripsis literally just a bag of rice with a universal glove liner inside of the bag.

Stick your hand inside and fit into the holes in the glove and start to do the same exercises you would inside the larger paint bucket. Pretty awesome if you ask me.

When I first saw this ad and their website I noticed that it was mainly targeted to baseball players. The first thing that jumped into my head was “This would be great for all grappling athletes” so I bought the product and immediately started testing how it worked. The results are pretty shocking.

Great Ape Grips Review

First off, this thing is so easy to move around and the burn you get from the exercises is worth its weight in gold. The fact of the matter is that most of us are not training our forearms like we should. There is a 1 to 1 correlation between grip strength and success on the mats and I have progressively noticed the impact of this product on my performance.

Great Ape Grips and Alpha Gripz products have been the two main drivers for the gains I have been seeing for my hand and grip strength and I am excited to continue using each one of them.

Even if you are not training any kind of martial art, any sport that requires any kind of gripping (weight lifting as well) you can benefit from adding this training to your day.

This product is so easy to move around I even bring it into the office to get some extra work in while I am waiting to take sales calls. It weighs no more than a couple of pounds, does not take up too much space, and does not make a mess like a traditional rice bucket would.

Pros of Using the Rice Bag

• An excellent way to train the forearms
• My forearms look bigger and feel stronger when I am training on the mats
• A new and unique way to get a solid burn-in
• Easy to move around
• Clean and takes up minimal space in my gym bag

Cons of using the Rice Bag

• The outside of the bag kind of started turning white after I had been using it for a couple of weeks. I don’t know if that is from rice particles or what but something that I noticed.
• I wish it came with an instructional card displaying exercises you can use with the bag