In some ways grip strength is an indicator of how much work you've done in your life. I've done hard labor all my life (farming) and still work full time at age 77. My grip strength is very strong. I went to a wedding in Turkey a few years ago, and an old guy at least 80, who was a stone mason up in the mountains of eastern Turkey, shook my hand. Amazing strength! He could totally crush me.
@@mikemadison7410 RIGHT. And so many of us now live in post-industrial environments where that kind of daily physical labor has to be gotten done by other means if at all. I was a desk jockey/couch potato for decades. That’s “normalized.” It kept a roof over my head and allowed me to provide for others, so I don’t beat myself up about it … but over the years, living that way beats us up more than we realize.
I have been seeing the different videos about grip strength also, and kind of figured the same as you do that it had to do with the fact that good grip strength does go along with lifting, even if it is only hard physical labor. I'm 64 and am blessed with fairly good joints, except for the arthritis in my right wrist and hand. I lift 6 days a week, legs one day, lats the next, chest the next, shoulders the next, arms the next, traps/upper & middle back next, then my rest day. My dead lifts give me the best benefit for grip strength, I started out 8 to 9 months ago around 100 to 110 and am now lifting 285. I don't start at the floor, I start about 16" off the floor using my cheap squat rack safety arms and I have to use the opposed grip or whatever it is called. I have subscribed just to give the algorithm something to do. Stay fit brother.
@@grampafitness9732 So lets look at that and let people know. You can't sit on the couch watching tv, feeding yourself potato chips w/ one hand, and squeezing a gripper w/ the other.
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In some ways grip strength is an indicator of how much work you've done in your life. I've done hard labor all my life (farming) and still work full time at age 77. My grip strength is very strong. I went to a wedding in Turkey a few years ago, and an old guy at least 80, who was a stone mason up in the mountains of eastern Turkey, shook my hand. Amazing strength! He could totally crush me.
@@mikemadison7410 RIGHT. And so many of us now live in post-industrial environments where that kind of daily physical labor has to be gotten done by other means if at all. I was a desk jockey/couch potato for decades. That’s “normalized.” It kept a roof over my head and allowed me to provide for others, so I don’t beat myself up about it … but over the years, living that way beats us up more than we realize.
I have been seeing the different videos about grip strength also, and kind of figured the same as you do that it had to do with the fact that good grip strength does go along with lifting, even if it is only hard physical labor.
I'm 64 and am blessed with fairly good joints, except for the arthritis in my right wrist and hand. I lift 6 days a week, legs one day, lats the next, chest the next, shoulders the next, arms the next, traps/upper & middle back next, then my rest day.
My dead lifts give me the best benefit for grip strength, I started out 8 to 9 months ago around 100 to 110 and am now lifting 285. I don't start at the floor, I start about 16" off the floor using my cheap squat rack safety arms and I have to use the opposed grip or whatever it is called.
I have subscribed just to give the algorithm something to do.
Stay fit brother.
@@myjudge45410 Welcome to the channel! Sounds like we’re on similar paths. Keep smashing it!
ANY strength training is good strength training. Train on!
@@barbellgardener THIS!!
It's not grip strength. It's why someone has a strong grip.
@@oldnatty61 PRECISELY. It’s a proxy measure for the underlying overall strength and the general good condition that strength implies.
@@grampafitness9732 So lets look at that and let people know. You can't sit on the couch watching tv, feeding yourself potato chips w/ one hand, and squeezing a gripper w/ the other.
How old, Bro ?
Me? Turned 61 a month ago, though I shot this and queued it up when I was a mere lad of 60. 😂