Hand Grip Dynamometer

“You need to measure this in multiple areas. And we'll start off with grip strength. You can do this in two ways. You can buy a hand grip dynamometer. Now, these are anywhere between $20 to $100 anywhere. These actually used to be, like when I was in school, like hundreds of dollars. And now you can literally buy them on any website for $25.”

“for movement precision and writing, things like that. If you are a male and you're under 40 kilograms on a hand grip dynamometer, we're going to need to train that. If you're a female, it's not that much lower, but about 35 kilograms is the cutoff point.”

“tend to have high grip strength as a byproduct of that. So you're not going to live longer by having like a hand grip dynamometer in your car that you're squeezing all the time. It'll make a little bit of a difference. But physical activity that exhausts the grip would be one. VO2 Max is another.”

“Speaking of training, you know what this is, don't you? Sure. This is a grip strength machine. Yeah. A lot of people told me that grip strength is the single biggest predictor of, I think they said like longevity and stuff like that.”

“It's great. It's an important message. But we have to be careful in being lost in what that means. Getting a grip strength device like that, which is probably under $40, is amazing. And what you will see consistently is those people that are really, really, really weak are in worse health on average.”

“Yeah. It takes forever. It's disgusting. I've been trying to jack those grip strength things. The strongest I ever got to is 164. And I'm like, I want to do this. I want to get to 200. I feel like in my lifetime I can get to 200. I can't get past 164.”