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Don-t Ignore THIS Early Warning Sign - MUSCLE LOSS!

Don-t Ignore THIS Early Warning Sign - MUSCLE LOSS!

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s natural early warning sign. Grip strength is one of the easiest and earliest ways to detect when your training is about to become unproductive, long before the negative side effects start to become apparent. It doesn-t have to be a surprise however. In this video, I-m going to show you the best way to test the strength of your grip and hands without having to spend a lot of money or take up a lot of time. First, why is grip so important. We know that your grip strength correlates to your performance on the bigger compound lifts. Due to the irradiation effect of a strong grip to more of the proximal muscles, as well as the stability provided to the entire kinetic chain that starts with a strong grip we will always need to strengthen our hand strength if we want to realize our true potential in the gym. Next, the interesting thing about grip strength is that it is driven perhaps more than any other element by neuromuscular efficiency. When your body is not up to maximal function, like when tired or ill, the strength of the grip is one of the first and most direct ways to realize this. Attempting to squeeze your hand and make a tight fist when feeling this way will show you just how impossible it is to obtain max strength. The same thing happens when you are approaching a state of under recovery. Many times, people will continue to add new things to their weight training regimens because they want to try something they-ve seen. The issue comes in when nothing else is replaced. Continuing to add more and more volume to a muscular system that already has reached it-s capacity to recovery from is a way to send your body into a deeper state of woe and make it harder for you to see new gains. You will see this in the form of decreased strength, a lack of desire to train, a plateau in new muscle hypertrophy or strength that seems to go on forever. All of this is avoidable if you just start testing the strength of your grip on a daily basis with a 2 minute procedure that you can do with an ordinary bathroom scale. The hand grip dynamometer shown in the video is the gold standard used by physical therapists for measuring grip strength but it is expensive and as you-ll see, not needed to get a fairly accurate snapshot of where you stand right now. Take the non-digital bathroom scale and support it on one knee. Position your hand on it so that your thumb is pointing up and your fingers wrap around the scale to squeeze it. Squeeze the scale as hard as you can and take note of the number in pounds that you generate. The key from here is now to consistently measure yourself and look for comparisons. If you see a drop of more than 10 percent from your baseline number then you want to take action to intervene on your current workout. You may need to take a reload week. You may need to decrease the volume of your overall work or even just lighten the loads that you are using to give your central nervous system a break. Even if this takes about a week or so to bounce back to baseline, you are going to be far better off for doing this than you would have been by banging away at your workouts in this state of under recovery. The key to avoiding this beyond just consistent measurement is to follow a training plan that doesn-t have you do more than what your body can recover from. All of the ATHLEAN-X programs available at the link below are designed to get you training to the edge but still allow your body to build itself up to be bigger and stronger from workout to workout
Date: 2022-04-22

Comments and reviews: 10


Great video with very useful information. I've been struggling for a while now with my grip in the gym. But the last month or so have been so bad. I think I may have either carpal tunnel syndrome or arthritis in my hands and it's really effecting my workouts. I took a reload week this week and was much better on my hands. I do take enough rest days per week and regular longer recovery periods when needed so I'm unsure why I'm suffering so much to be honest. My partner thinks I should lay off the gym for some time but I really don't want to, I love strength training. I'm going to try this grip method though, I think my grip strength will be mega low at the minute -
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HELP ME,
PLEASE.
I can do 60kg wrist grip.
But I think I am stuck with my bicep growth or may be even the overall growth of muscles.
I measure my arms every day.
It took my arms 3 to 3. 5 months from getting 11. 5 to 13. 3 inch but since after it has stopped growing. I started workout last year mid October.
I have done variations by increasing meal and protient intake, increasing workout sets but it seems to be not working out.
Something seems wrong when I recalculate my moves since the start of my body building journey.
A sudden growth and then plateau. It hurts trying but not achieving desired output.

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Been in this situation. I was preparing for powerlifting competition and trained probably 5/7 days a week for two weeks. Maxing my bench, deadlift and other lifts. One day I just woke up and felt sleepy, dizzy, I was feeling like having weak grip, etc. I took a time off for a week I think. Situation was not getting better. I went to see a doctor, and what do you know. My kidneys were overloaded, my back line was super tight and there were some stretch marks. Doctor told me to inject Magnesium with B12 and take a rest. After 1-2 months of recovery I was like new and never did the same mistake. Remember guys, consistency is the key.
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I worry about my grip strength. There's a noticeable difference between my right and left hand (actually the opposite of all incoming jokes. When I was a kid my pinky finger got yanked to a 90 degree angle while I was playing basketball. While I had a pretty standard dislocation recovery I've noticed that finger does not have as fluid of a motion as the one on my other hand. It feels harder to grip when I go into heavier dumbbells. It's like the pinky finger hangs back when I'm closing the grip on that hand.
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i just destroyed two 300 grams bags of dry ice tea raspberry and strawberry flavour. i eat it dry. i don't feel sick but my teeth have fur on them, my tongue has burns and cuts from rolling the granules, i choked on it about 2 hours ago and still when i cough now i can taste the sugar, all day i only had 2 double cheese burgers and about 12 coffee's 5 sugar each. and as i'm typing now. another 300 gram lemon tea is looking at me. i know i will feel sick after that one. but its worth it
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This is a very effective training tool, measuring our grip strength. These tips will go a long way, I do over train myself, my wife and doctor tells me to back off some. I started when I was 17, now I'm 59, my strength according to this is still going up, I still have a 28- waistline, Arms improved in a 6 month span from 17. 0 to 17. 9-, all of my averages went up by 27%. I still love these tips because they are real indicators for the average person, what about elite!
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actually i think the MRP (morning resting pulse) test is perhaps a better way to interpret an early sign of overtraining.
when you wake up (and after the shock of the alarm has dissipated) take your pulse. track it over the course of days, weeks, etc. if it is raised (by 7 or 8 or more bpm) then consider an easier workout that day or a rest day. MRP is your lowest daily pulse rate, and a good indicator of where your health and fitness is generally.

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the best method for gaining muscle is to make sure to keep creating progressive overload. every month or less, keep increasing the intensity when you are able to handle it. this is to keep it simple and easy for anyone to understand, progressive overload builds muscle over time. You also want to make sure you are performing each exercise with a good technique and contracting a much as possible. and of course, your nutrition is important.
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wait a second, he squeezed 50 KILOGRAMS on the $300 hand dynamometer, but only 50 POUNDS on the $10 scale, which is less than half of 51 kilograms. unless the scale is measured in kilograms? that can't be the case because then the cheap $10 scale is literally built to measure people with a weight up to 600 pounds, which is hard to believe. he makes it seem like you can get an accurate readout from the scale, but that's clearly not the case
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my non dominant hand has significantly more grip strength than my dominant hand from fretting guitar. should I be worried about this imbalance of grip strength.
I don't think it's muscle size related so much as mind muscle connection so i'm worried if I work out the other hand with one of those grippers to compensate i'll be building larger muscles in one arm to compensate for a stronger mental connection in the other.

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