Do you think manual or hand-clamping can be just as effective as cable clamping?

Or do you think that clamping manually would be less effective than doing it with a cable clamp?

I’m particularly interested in what PEers who do manual girth exercises have to say.

Short answer no, I don’t think it can be as effective. At least for me personally. What’s holding you back? Cable clamps are so inexpensive.

Coming from my own experience with hand-clamping, I don’t find it to be efficient at all in comparison to cable clamping. A manual hand grip will weaken gradually and usually quite quickly.

I’m stuck in a bit of a rut though, can’t get my hands on a cable clamp as nowhere in my area sells them from what I’ve seen and if I was to order online my mother, being a nosy woman, would open it up when it arrives and question me. That’d be an awkward one to explain, she’d have no idea what I’m using it for, but I can picture her telling my aunties and uncles when they come to visit my grandmother (who lives next door) on a daily basis and having ‘em all asking me about it. Yes nosy family, but hey, what can ya do?

Just tell her that they are for cable management (which is the “intended” use for them). Just use all the smaller ones for your computer cables and the larger one for the clamping.

Hand-clamping is not that heavy and could be used by not that advanced PEers.

I clamped for a while. Currently I am not, but will start again at some point. I don’t think a manual clamp can compare - with the cable clamp you have better control, you can apply the pressure you need then do whatever you are doing without paying much attention to it. Especially for me, I have continually strained tendons from work, so my grip gets weaker the longer I squeeze.

I was hand clamping my morning wood just this morning, and by my third set of clamping it off for a minute, my gripping muscles in my hand and forearms were killing me. Some dudes will have very good results with hand clamping, but most won’t be able to clamp for long enough to get the expansion they’re after. And that’s my two cents.

You know I might just do that, funnily enough the cables running out of my computer are a bit clumped up and so it’d look pretty legit.
Cheers Skee.