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[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 66 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fun Fact: If you use a hammer, the pickles will just fall right out

[–] Eczpurt@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My favorite part is the pickled glass shards

[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The crunch really leaves an impression for a long time too

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the fun times on the loo sometimes later. Fermented stuff really is good for your guts after all!

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Reading this made me flinch

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It fulfills your daily recommended intake of glass

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Exceeds it, even. That's how you know it's good.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

Until you pee out all the excess.

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[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 57 points 8 months ago

200 lbs are 90 kg, just in case anyone else was wondering

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If climbing has taught me anything, it's that lifting (deadlifting in this case) is no indication of grip strength.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] DrMango@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

OP should try opening the pickle jar with their thighs

[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

What do you suggest for increasing it? I normally do dead hangs and wrist curls

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Either lots of pull-up bar related exercises, like hang-toughs, towel-pulls, and L-sits, or these things

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Turn it upside down, slap the bottom a few times, and it'll open right up.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

Just like my ex!

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[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago

I'm not falling for the ol' spicy pickle lid again

[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

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.

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[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

It's cold and the metal shrinks more than the glass, run hot water over it.

[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Very dumb trick but I use a rubber band to have better grip around the lid, as they are usually quite slippy imo

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I dent the lid with a butter knife's blunt edge

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[–] purahna@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago

It's because you're not using the same muscle groups. Simply set the pickle jar on the ground, put your power foot on the jar, grip the lid, and heave with your entire lower back and glutes in the open direction

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Smack it on the bottom till you hear a pop

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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!

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Most of us non gym people are the other way around. Not me, I'm weak everywhere.

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[–] Unreliable@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Everyone starts somewhere. Those numbers are dangerously close to my lateral raise! Keep it up!

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