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💪 Is declining muscle weakness & grip strength the new smoking?
💪 The key to your optimum ageing well-being may be keeping your grip strength at its peak.
💪 While hip, core and leg strength provides transportation, life drastically alters when grip strength declines.
💪 Data on (dynamometry) grip strength suggest a concerning decline after 45 years.
Males
Females
Age
*Strength Kg
Ideal
Age
*Strength Kg
Ideal
18-19
45
45
18-19
23
26
20-24
49
51
20-24
25
28
25-29
51
53
25-29
28
31
30-34
54
56
30-34
29
32
35-39
53
55
35-39
24
27
40-44
51
55
40-44
23
26
45-49
47
52
45-49
22
24
50-54
43
49
50-54
20
22
55-59
39
47
55-59
17
21
60-64
33
46
60-64
16
19
65-69
32
45
65-69
14
17
70-74
29
42
70-74
11
14
75-79
23
40
75-79
10
13
80-84
21
37
80-84
9
12
85>
19
34
85>
7
10
*The dominant & non-dominant hand mean.
“People with better grip strength age more slowly”
💪 Strong grip strength has been demonstrated to predict bad health outcomes
such as cardiovascular disease more accurately than systolic blood pressure.
💪 Picking ‘it’ up, cleaning, opening it up, favourite (sporting) activities,
protecting against falls, grip strength matters.
What is grip strength?
💪 The muscles in your hands and fingers and the forearm muscles that extend from your elbow to your wrist produce grip strength.
Maintaining grip strength.
💪 All incidental exercise – cleaning, building, gardening etc.
💪 Some Resistance training exercise – Deadman hangs, Farmers Carries, Kettlebell swings, Barbell Shrugs, Bent over rows.
💪 Specific exercises – grasping grip strength unit, tennis ball squeezes, elastic band exercises, fingerpicking a guitar.
💪💪 Test yourself and start a fitting strengthening program with Brad Pamp today 💪💪
