Fun Fact: If you use a hammer, the pickles will just fall right out
My favorite part is the pickled glass shards
The crunch really leaves an impression for a long time too
Don’t forget the fun times on the loo sometimes later. Fermented stuff really is good for your guts after all!
Reading this made me flinch
It fulfills your daily recommended intake of glass
Exceeds it, even. That’s how you know it’s good.
Until you pee out all the excess.
Screw the microplastics, I’m all about that micro glass. Get those two to fight each other.
If climbing has taught me anything, it’s that lifting (deadlifting in this case) is no indication of grip strength.
Kinda. It can help grip strength a lot, or at least holding weights in that way can. But its not a grip strength exercise. Deadlifts, barbell/dumbell shrugs, farmers carry, curls, etc… stuff like that can all help improve grip strength while not being the primary goal of the exercise.
OP should try opening the pickle jar with their thighs
What do you suggest for increasing it? I normally do dead hangs and wrist curls
Either lots of pull-up bar related exercises, like hang-toughs, towel-pulls, and L-sits, or these things
Get those spring hand grip strengtheners?
Any sort of exercise that removes the thumbs and metacarpophalangeal joints from the equation, if you can close your hand, lock your grip and hang off of your skeleton you’ll only add so much to your grip. There are actual crimping blocks and rolling handles you can attatch to weights to strengthen your grip.
Emil Abrahamsson seems to think that hangboarding is the answer to this problem, he suggests holding a hangboard without lifting your total weight off of the ground on the smallest ledge you can manage, twice a day, every day, to turn your grip into iron. He recently beat a lot of pound for pound grip championship records so I think his training techniques are worth paying attention to.
That being said, climbing itself might be the answer since these elite dudes routinely hang off of the absolute tips of their fingers while lifting their bodies up a wall and even for someone who can deadlift a shitton getting used to lifting your weight on crimps takes months to achieve.
It’s also worth saying that you have very few muscles in your hand and grip strength is more a game of strengthening tendons and ligaments, which takes a lot longer than strengthening muscles, which might be why one of the guys with the most world records in grip strength right now is 70+ years old.
Hand grippers.
Basic grippers -> Power grippers -> Captains Of Crush grippers
I will eventually get away from 135lb power grippers
Turn it upside down, slap the bottom a few times, and it’ll open right up.
Just like my ex!
Using a fork and pushing it between the threads of the lid with a twist also works
…j-just like his ex?
Well, it do be an ex for a reason
Just heat up the lid a little bit.(if the lid is metal)
You can use hot water, although I have found rolling the lid on my electric stove for 10-20 seconds works better because then it’s not wet after.
I’m not falling for the ol’ spicy pickle lid again
I wonder if they actually use the same trick to actually put the lid on as-well to create as-tight of a seal as possible
I assume all parts are heated first because that’s how you ensure it’s sterile. It also serves to make a slight vacuum once cooled which will keep everything sealed.
It’s cold and the metal shrinks more than the glass, run hot water over it.
I just wanted to say that a 200lb deadlift isn’t all that impressive, especially if you look like buff doge. I guess he skips leg day a lot
Increase the lever, don’t try to open it with your wrist, do it with you whole arm the fingers must do the friction and the wrist must stay still.
That or you can always shot the jar open
Yeah, I know the other tricks like running warm water or tapping the edge, and those are fine. But honestly use your arm instead of your wrist and most jars pop open. Torque that thing!
I dent the lid with a butter knife’s blunt edge
If you want to reuse the lids, you can just pry the lid a little and let the pressure equalize. That way there is no dent and sealing it again will work properly.
Smack it on the bottom till you hear a pop
There’s usually a high friction between the jar lid’s deformable seal, and the lip of the glass jar itself.
A gentle knock of the lid on the edge of the counter will reduce the friction effect, making it far easier to open a ‘stuck’ lid.
Literally me. I deadlift 700 with hook grip, 500 double-overhand, and I still struggle. I just smack the lid on the edge of the counter a bit to help.
Everyone starts somewhere. Those numbers are dangerously close to my lateral raise! Keep it up!
Most of us non gym people are the other way around. Not me, I’m weak everywhere.
Using brain more than raw power helps for a lot of things in life.
Stick the tip of a spoon under the lip of the lid and push the handle towards the jar. That should open a little gap that releases the pressure inside the jar and it’ll open pretty easily then.
They are hard to open due to a vacuum seal. So just take a very small flathead screwdriver and put it under the lid, and apply a small amount of upward force to break the seal. The jar pops, releases the pressure, and now a toddler can open it. I use the nail file on my pocket Leatherman. Works every time.
