 Next question is from Nate Brown fit. How do I increase grip strength so I can deadlift more, you know I we get a lot of Remarkably, and maybe I guess it's not surprising anymore because it's been happening so often, but we get a lot of questions on Script strength. I didn't see that coming when we started this business I'll never forget when you made that that I made that video on YouTube. We were giving them grief I thought it was stupid. I'm not gonna lie I really thought who is going to be searching for forearm and you know grip strength shit. Can we please preface this? YouTube before you know this clickbait YouTube that we're doing right now Before that we all agree that nothing is going to develop forearms better than just lifting some heavy ass weight Yeah, I guess maybe just the type of clientele I had or I don't remember a lot of clients ask me that but maybe this is and Maybe that's because we we tend to attract people that are already into fitness and working out that this is something that someone's been training for a while and they find that this is a lagging well, there's two things two reasons I would these are my two guesses one is especially if you're doing heavy pulling and deadlifting and You're you don't work in construction. You're not you're just normal person Which these days that means you do nothing that's physical really in your everyday life Then you go start working out and you have the weakest grip and that becomes the weakest link So then you're like, oh my god, what can I do strength my grip? The other reason I think is because for the most part if you're a man The muscle that might show is your forearms and hands and you ask any woman And she'll say she checks out a man's hands and forearms and can tell if he's fit or strong from that So it's something that's also attractive But anyway what I wanted to talk about were exercises because a lot of people don't know grip as training exercises They're not very common. I mean we all know hold on to a bar as long as you can Okay, that's great. That's one way to do it. Farmer walks. Okay. That's another way to do it But really what you want to do because when you're holding something for time It's an isometric exercise and the best way to train isometrics is to train them in different ranges of motion Okay, so to give a different example if I trained isometrics in squats I wouldn't just hold the squad at the bottom that would be one way to do it But then I would do one where I'm a little higher and one where I'm a little higher And maybe one where I'm real low So I'm kind of doing an isometric an isometric in different ranges of motion You could do this with your grip as well So you have the bar circumference you can use that and then what you could do is you could use a plate Where you pinch it with your fingers like this or you pinch it with your fingers like this or you take a thick towel You wrap it around the bar So now you have to take a really wide grip or you wrap a towel around it pull up bar and see if you can hang With your grip like this so essentially the key is to train your grip in different ranges of motion from wide to narrow to pinch grip to where maybe even where you're holding just with two fingers and I borrowed a lot of this from the what I consider to be the people with the most I guess well-developed and Balanced grips in the world which are rock climbers if you rock climbers have Maybe not necessarily the strongest grips, but they have the most balanced strength in their grips where they can if you watch a really good rock climber They can they can do the craziest Positions with their hands with their hands way out here or just one finger gripping or real narrow or inside cracks And their hands are so versatile and if you look at the way they train their hands It's through all these different positions and ranges of motion That that they use so that's what I would that's those are those are the ways I would say train your grip best I did want to bring this up and this is something that I've kind of been holding on to You know Jim Smith Smitty from yeah from DeFranco and CPPS You know went out of his way and wrote us a really amazing grip strengthening and grip testing manual And actually in it he goes into like thrill detail And so there's like a couple different categories that he classifies some of these different exercises and techniques and one of them is crush pinch Support levering and then he gets into hand health. Yeah, so, you know, there's great And so it goes into all those different techniques, you know when to apply them And then you know how to kind of test out and also the the cool heart rate variability aspect of testing your grip Before you get into working out this to test your stress levels as well Is this gonna be included in the next program that we released is that the plan with this? Yeah, I mean that's what we're gonna work out is is definitely we're gonna be releasing this attached with a product that Yeah, yeah now is now we talked about grip, but when you talk about grip, you can't leave out the forearm So the forearm yes, it has the muscles that close and open the hand But it also has the muscles that flex and extend the wrist and also go laterally So this is all the levering. Yeah, so if you strengthen the grip, that's great But also don't ignore exercises that curl the forearm or extend the forearm and also Exercises where you're working this kind of laterally with the forearms all of that contributes to a really well-developed strong grip I also don't want us to miss the simple answer to which is simply just deadlifting more will help this like I I've done a lot of the almost everything We just have talked about and have seen definitely gains in my grip strength from all the things we're talking about But one of the the greatest differences I ever saw was when I when I was chasing after Sal with a deadlift I had never Deadlifted at that high of a frequency and volume it'll build your grip That's for sure and I just did the forearms came up because I was always practicing the deadlift, right? I was and I'm part of practicing the deadlift all time included like the axle bar every once in a while Included heavy singles and doubles Included higher reps sometimes and just because I was constantly gripping that bar and deadlifting with that bar all the time My forearms got a lot stronger especially for that specific exercise because there's a difference in saying like just getting overall Forearm or grip strength that is applied to all these different things But if it's specifically because I'm having a hard time holding on to the bar for deadlifting You know one of the most simple things you could do is to just deadlift And the other thing too with the forearms and this is just my own anecdote or experience is they respond really well to frequency So often like lots of frequent training not at super high intensity. So and scale yourself So don't just jump into this because you will get soreness in your elbows You'll get tennis elbow or what's the other one called golfers elbow or whatever So but you can get those hand grippers are really cheap and just kind of play with them throughout the day Try not to overdo it but frequency, you know as you build up to it man like like, you know, I've used I've talked about my dad before he's worked since he was a kid with his hands and His hands are so they're they're freakishly strong and hard I'll never forget once he was we were at jujitsu and he's a 50 something-year-old man And he's going against this big Canadian pro football player and they were going and my dad's got a judo background so and I remember they broke grips and Might this was the whole class burst out laughing couldn't believe what happened My dad's 180 pounds at the time that this guy's like 320 pound dude big dude He reached out to grab my dad's gi and my dad literally grabbed his hand and crushed it and the guy tapped out And he was like, what the hell did you just do to me? And we were dying of laughter that this old man Crushed his hand to make him make him tap out. That's right. And it's so if the frequency, right? That's what it came from him working with his hands for his whole life Developed just that that iron grip Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here Or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe