Video: Aaron Gwin's Top Grip Strength Exercises for Mountain Biking

 Dudes. If you're not generally fit beyond the bike a bunch of super specific exercises won't help as much as really broad work to get strong and stable. Basic deadlifts, press, cleans, squats, kettlebell work. Building that base will bring with it a ton of grip strength with the bonus that the work will build a ton of other useful capacity too.

 Ride motocross, holding a mtb feels like childs play after that.

 1. Shaolin tiger style 2. Playing on monkey bars 3. Aggressive knitting

 1. Bouldering 2. Sport Climbing 3. Finger Board

 The old rake and shovel

 I tend to agree, I can’t maintain my potential on the bike without spending some time in the gym. The first time I went to Whistler, grip strength and finger fatigue were by far the limiting factor in how long I could ride each day. My hometown riding could never replicate the type and amount of descending I would get at the bike park. The next year, I spent a couple months prior doing a gyro ball and grip squeeze exercises during my commute, riding a pump track, and strength training a few times a week. Made all the difference and I’ve tried to consistently train ever since. As I’ve gotten older I actually train more then I ride but my rides are better than ever.

Strong legs, core, and upper body allow me to maintain proper attack position on the bike and ride with a more relaxed grip and reduced demand on the forearms. If I am weak and fatigue to quickly, my hands seem to pick up a lot of the slack. One-finger braking and learning to brake early and quickly and stay off the brakes makes a big difference too. Descending with a rounded back, straight arms and legs, nervously dragging a fistful of brake all the way down the hill quickly leads to some cranky hands.

 Seriously, rock climbing or bouldering. An hour at the climbing gym is eye opening if you've never done it before. Just don't do anything that requires grip strength the next day like holding a mug or opening a door

 Best exercise for grip strength?
Turn off the spinning mode of your washing machine, and squeeze all your laundry by hand.
"Tai Chi Master" certified technique, and good for the planet.

(Level 1: start quietly with your riding socks... level 10: finish with all your family clothes...)

 Coming off of two wrist surgery’s and another broken wrist this has been a tough one for me. Being on the bike has also been number one for me, but climbing has also been huge to maintain mobility and strength.

 I’ve found weightlifting to have a tremendous positive impact on my grip strength and endurance.

I don’t have access to the type of long, punishing downhills that you’d experience at, say, a bike park, on my local trails. So I always get frustrated when my hands and arms are shot after just a couple laps on the weekend or two a summer when I do make it to a bike park.

Then, I read something about the benefits of weightlifting for biking, and gave it a try.

After just a few weeks of a pretty normal program (StrongLifts 5x5 3x a week) I had more arm endurance than ever before. I always assumed the only way to build your downhill arm endurance was a bunch of time on punishing downhills, but that’s absolutely not true.

 Bouldering. Arm pump gone. Just be careful you don’t squeeze your grips off.

 Forearm curls with heavy weight have helped me significantly. I'm not a rock climber and the trails here arent really long enough to stress the forearms so my forearms lie dormant for most of the year until bike park season, doing forearm curls really activates them and gets them ready to do work. At the park I couldn't even make it all the way down without needing a break, after just 1 week of curls I was able to make it to the end of the day before getting bad arm pump.

 Heavy renegade rows are another great one, all of the weight of a 1 arm push up plus what ever weight you are rowing directly through a pushing grip. Great for wrist stability and core stability.

 Put a CoC in your hand and squeeze

 Go bouldering and rock climbing. You’ll laugh at the joke that is mountain biking when it comes to grip strength after.

 Just buy rev grips and handlebars with elastomers and one of those suspension stems and you will be fine.

 Squat, Bench, OHP, Deadlift

 Just pick up a shovel and build some trail

 many people will find that digging holes in utahn dirt for a 10 hour saturday actually helps with everything

 It is good to see the exercise beyond the bike is promoted. If you don't have a daily fitness/strength routine you will be left in the dust on the trails.

 Add Farmer Carrie’s to the list, do them for distance.
I’d put them above everything Gwin listed in this situation.

 jerk it.

 Trail building

 Roll ups. Broom stick, 5lb weight, and a cord. Roll up, roll down. Repeat 5 times.

 Thanks Aaron, really like these. I'd say more, but I can't find a way to make your post all about ME.

 TIP: Never arm wrestle an anaesthetist.

 Alternative idea. drunken father , ski boat , tube.

 Huge 220/203 rotors help my hands tremendously!

 Velcro

 Farm work, diet and riding.

 maces and clubs for me.

 16oz curl