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Oh no doubt, I've had the same experience. For whatever reason, people who did drywalling especially seemed like they always had insane functional strength, sometimes when they looked like absolutely nothing. I just have to believe there's a light at the end of the grip tunnel because for one thing, some of the stuff, like heavy wrist rollers, just hurts too much not to convince myself that its worth it. And its kind of hard to psyche myself up to do any of it with keeping faith in that pot of gold.
I guess there's that balance between the sort of romanticized element of working out and the realism. You don't want to give yourself unrealistic goals and then get discouraged, but you also want to have a degree of faith in your ability to get to where you want to go. I guess the balance would be to be happy with the journey and with progress, but also hopeful that it could one day lead to wherever it is you want it to.
I do think you're 100% right; I think greasing the groove is the key. Like you said, basically the same thing as with calves. I guess maybe because your hands and your calves were both designed for constant use, so giving it work that's sufficient to signal that it has to adapt or change is going to have a higher bar? That honestly does feel right to me. The only thing I can really think of is having something in your hands, a gripper that isn't too high resistance to do a bunch of reps with, something to squeeze, something in your hands constantly. You think those kung fu rice workouts would do anything, if you did them constantly and devoted enough time to them?
The thought of having a strong grip, it would just be so cool. I don't know, clearly it is not an easy thing to do. Calves are a great comparison, because with both, I've had lots of stops and starts where I pursued them, didn't get to where I wanted to and basically restarted later.
