How to Get a Stronger Grip! In this video, I talk about how to get a stronger grip. I share that when I first started measuring my grip strength, I was stuck around 170-180 pounds (80 kg). I was training my forearm flexors, thinking that would increase my grip strength, but that didn't really work. It wasn't until I started training two specific areas that dramatically increased my grip strength to over 100 kg in just a matter of months. The first area is the belly of your thumb, which is a mix of smaller muscles that move your thumb. The stronger your thumb, the more you can squeeze with it, and the thumb belly creates the base of our grip. The second area is a wrist extensor - having slight radial deviation and extension at the same time. I share a couple of exercises using a kettlebell to train these two areas, and I hope it helps improve your grip strength as well.