# Finger Strength Legend: Yves Gravelle on Training & Performance

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3RXXfFqnCVNVA0uLrod8pZ?si=e0aea2fb4e6b4a10 

**Today we have a true legend of finger strength - the one and only [Yves Gravelle](https://www.instagram.com/yvesgravelle/?hl=en). He has some of the strongest fingers in the world, pound for pound and has demonstrated this in both the climbing and arm lifting world, whilst also holding down a full time job and the added role of parenting on top of that.**

**In terms of his climbing, Yves is an International comp athlete, having represented Canada for a number of years, he’s bouldered V15 and repeated and established multiple problems in the double digit range. For Arm Lifting, he is 3 x APL World Champ, the lightest person the lift the Thomas inch dumbbell and has a PB of 105kg on the Rolling Thunder.**

 **If you’re someone who’s interested in the opinion, practices and methods of an athlete at the top 0.0001% of their game, when it comes to building strong fingers, then listen in hard!

In this episode [Tom](https://latticetraining.com/about/tom-randall/) and Yves cover the following topics:**

1. **Yves's classic feats of strength.**
2. **His early climbing years.**
3. **The tools in the last 20 yrs that he's felt were most effective.**
4. **How often he trains grip strength.**
5. **How he balances that with normal climbing.**
6. **What has been the role of arm lifting and when he got into it.**
7. **Are arm lifters doing anything different to climbers?**
8. **Hang vs lift tools for finger strength training.**
9. **How he 'transfers' his training strength across into climbing.**
10. **His balance of low intensity and high volume training.**
11. **How he trains with limited time and resources.**
12. **His tips for climbers getting into their first season of arm lift training.**

 **Yves' Sponsors: Bloc shop, Kailas, Tembo, Digit Climbing, Xcult USA, Coyote rock gym**

**His YouTube channel:** [**https://www.youtube.com/user/yvesgravelle/videos**](https://www.youtube.com/user/yvesgravelle/videos) **His Instagram:**[ **https://www.instagram.com/yvesgravelle/?hl=en**](https://www.instagram.com/yvesgravelle/?hl=en)

**I’m from Ottawa, Canada**

**Been climbing for 22 years.**

**Ex Canadian National Bouldering team member. 7-8 time???**

**3 x arm lifting World Champion (APL federation)**

**8C boulder**

**Multiple World records and class world records order in the sport of Armlifting.**

**Feats Highlight**

**- lightest person the lift the Thomas inch dumbbell**

**- 6mm one arm pull-up and deadhang**

**- lattice test edge + 32kg**

**- 105kg on the rolling thunder**

**- 1-5-9 with construction gloves**

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