The Grip Show

Steve McGranahan is a lifelong athlete who excelled at various sports growing up. He is a pioneer in Grip Sport and an early member of the Grip Community. He was the first person to snap/break the Ironmind Red Nail. He's closed a Captains of Crush number 4 gripper in competition, has won many grip competitions and competed internationally. He has also done everything from dunking a basketball, run...

Armlifting USA Super Series Stage 1 results are in and Eric Roussin has joined Zach from the Grip Show to discuss the standings.

Odd Haugen is a legend known throughout various strength sports. Odd has trained and competed in everything from Strongman (competing in World's Strongest Man on 3 separate occasions), Powerlifting, Body Building, Football, and Track and Field. Throughout his years involved in strength sports one of the things he is most well known for is his amazing grip strength. Odd sits down with us to talk ab...

Luke Reynolds joins the Grip Show to give us a rundown of his performance at the first ever Australian National Championship. Luke had a very strong performance winning the overall and was crowned the first ever Australian National Grip Sport Champion.

Eric Roussin recently hosted the 2024 North American Grip Sport Championship. He joins the show to give a detailed summary of this two day Grip Sport event.

Jason Dingey recently won the North American Grip Sport Championship. He joins the show to give us his thoughts on the competition and his performance. Jason continues to perform well and shows the world why he's consistently one of the best competitors in Grip Sport and Armlifting.

Sarah Chappelow joins the show to explain her recent victory at the North American Grip Sport Championship. This contest was held by Eric Roussin in Canada. Sarah Won her weightclass and the Overall Women's division. Tune in to hear the champ talk about her lifts and the competition.

Grip Sport International (GSI) will be holding the North American Championships on June 1st/2nd. This is a 2 day competition that's comprised of 7 events. Eric Roussin is hosting and joins The Grip Show to give us a breakdown of what to expect!

The U.S. Grip Sport Nationals was hosted by Will Guiliani in San Diego, CA. Also joining the show is the overall winner of the Men's Divsion and this year's champion Jedd Johnson. Will and Jedd will go into detail about how the events played out and cover several other highlights from the competition.

This is a recap of the 2024 Canadian Grip Sport Nationals competition featuring the Men's Overall Winner Eric Roussin.

Jenn Tibbenham and Eric Roussin join the Grip Show to share their experiences from competing in the Armlifting USA competition held at the Arnold Classic in Columbus, Ohio. Aside from discussing their own experiences they help analyze and break down the results from all competitors and all weightclasses. The Arnold Armlifting competition is one of the biggest grip competitions held every year if n...

This show is dedicated to this year's King Kong Grip Challenge. The events contested are revealed as well as a ton of general information regarding the competition and its format. Whether you're hosting a venue as a promoter or simply just want to be a competitor and find out more information about King Kong this show has you covered.

John Mouser is a well rounded strength athlete who's competed in everything from Stonelifting, Arm Wrestling, Sumo Wreslting, MAS Wrestling, Strongman, and Grip Sport. Aside from the various lanes of competition he also performs Old time feats of strength and does shows that require odd object strength such as lifting uneven objects/hammer levering etc. From John's various backgrounds and experien...

This episode is dedicated to the legendary feat of Grip Strength that is known as The Thomas Inch Dumbbell. Joining the show are 6 Masters of Grip Strength and some of the best Inch style Dumbbell lifters ever. This show features... Nathan Holle, Adam Glass, Joe Hodgson, Carl Myerscough, Jedd Johnson, and Ben Helms.

This Competition was presented by West Coast Arm Sports and was dual sanctioned with Armlifting USA and Grip Sport International. It was hosted at Odd Haugen's Legendary Training Hall. Several Records were broken amongst various weightclasses/organizations. Will and Travis give us the rundown on the competition and the weights that were lifted.

In this episode The Grip Show has teamed up with Eric Roussin to cover the North American Rankings. Eric is the man behind the rankings and has kept rankings for decades with Arm Wrestling and Grip Sport. With most of this years major competitions wrapped up now is a good time to breakdown where the rankings stand. Eric explains the rankings process and how these lists are compiled. We go in depth...

Sarah Chappelow is recently coming off of two big contest wins. She won the title of "Queen Kong" winning her 3rd overall King Kong Grip Challenge title and she just won a World Championship at the Olympia for Armlifting USA. Sarah is known throughout the grip community for being extremely strong and consistent. Although she is a household name in the grip strength world today, she didn't start th...

Riccardo Magni (President of Armlifting USA) joins us on The Grip Show to recap the lifts and action that took place in Orlando, Florida during the Olympia weekend. The competition consisted of 65 competitors across various weightclasses. Listen in as some of the strongest grips in the world hit the Armlifting stage to battle it out and break records.

Eric Roussin sits down for a recap episode to cover the results from this year's King Kong Grip Challenge.

Richard Sorin is the founder of Sorin Exercise Equipment. Richard is very important to the Grip Strength World and has a long list of achievements to his name. He was the first to Close a Captains of Crush #3 Gripper, He was the first to Plate Pinch Deep Dish York 45's and he's the reason we have "blobs" today. Richard titled a half York broken dumbbell "The Blob" and trained on it until he could...

StrongHold 2023 was a Grip Sport International sanctioned event held by Ronni Bossie in Fort Fairfield, Maine. The event had 15 competitors ranging from teens to master's (50+) in age. Also for many competitors this was their first grip competition. Even though some of the pack was newer to grip there were some experienced Grip Veterans who made the trip to compete as well. After all was said and...

James Fuller is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to weight training and weightlifting history. He's been training and lifting for over 40 years now. He's competed in everything from powerlifting, grip sport competitions, to the olympic style weightlifting (which he still actively competes in.) James can be found on various platforms with the name "Strongman Archaeology", where he posts tons of...

James Retarides started Arm Wrestling in the late 90's and didn't step away until 2012. During this time he won titles in 33 different states and was a National Champion in 4 different weightclasses. He also published a book about Arm Wrestling called Strong Arm Tactics. James was a journalist and editor throughout most of his 20's, has done broadcast work for CBS, ESPN/Pay Per View and became a p...

Predictions and Opinions about the upcoming King Kong Grip Contest.

Tammy McClure is relatively new to the Armlifting/Gripsport scene but has yet to be defeated in competition at her weightclass. Tammy is a former college Track and Field athlete who won the Big West championship for the Triple Jump. She has always had an interest in climbing/bouldering. The strength developed through years of climbing have made her have a natural transition into the grip strength...