Recently, Marcon et al.11and Miarka et al.12reported that approximately half of the combattime is spent in gripping fighting activities and Calmet et al.9demonstrated that the grip fighting is one of the most importantfactors during judo matches, as the grip dominance is essentialto increase the opportunities of throwing techniques execution.Thus, the specificity of adaptations was confirmed, especiallybecause the effect size for strength endurance adaptations inthese exercises were higher than for maximal strength in theonly exercise involving pulling action