 Next question is from that guy kc. How do you improve grip strength? Oh Justin I aren't qualified to answer this Somebody had a second pass at it, which was interesting All right, so here's a deal with grip strength so just like anything else you could obviously train it And so I would say here's the number one thing train it like any other body parts So you have your normal workouts you hit your chest twice a week your shoulders twice a week or three days a week Work your grip two or three days a week and there's a few very simple exercises you can do now You can work on the static strength of your grip Which is just how long you can hold something and that's quite easy You can literally stand holding a pair of heavy dumbbells and hold them in either as long as you can or Maybe five seconds before you think you're gonna drop it. That's probably a little better You don't want to necessarily go to failure. So that's one way you can hold it But there's also varying degrees of static strength meaning You know, there's a there's a bar. There's that circumference But you also want to build strength on things that are thicker So what I like to do sometimes I'll wrap a towel around a bar so that it's a thicker grip now I'm holding it or I'll pinch grip where I'll hold a plate Just like this with my hands and hold that for grip. So that's for the static strength What about actual eccentric and concentric strength? You can get yourself a hand gripper to do that or you can use a barbell or dumbbells where you put it behind your back You let it roll down the finger rice bucket and then you squeeze it or yeah, I love the rice You can like push your fingers through spread them apart. You can grip The you know the rice and make balls out of it and squeeze as hard as you can And it's just one of those underrated exercises not a lot of people know we have that in our OCR program It's awesome I think it's really interesting to unless you had something like OCR So I'm glad you just actually said that because I was actually gonna say it's you know This whole idea of like training grip by itself I'm less of a fan of it because there's so many exercises that you can do that your grip strength is gonna come up really well I mean you doing weighted pull-ups is gonna do it you doing heavy deadlifts gonna do it You doing farmer carries is gonna do it you using an axle bar for your deadlifts is gonna do it like these these all those exercises are Other great exercises for other parts or your the whole body that I think have tremendous value And you're gonna get a lot of good grip strength from it to sit down and do like Wrist curl bucket and the only way I'm doing that is if I'm Specifically training for like OCR where that needs to be at another wall It's specific to to what you train So you're gonna be as strong you're only gonna be strong in your grip to what you're constantly doing right? So it's like the novelty of it is cool and all but like for the most part It's it's like you said it's what you do constantly and it's just getting better at your Mechanics and performance of that and loading the weight now along those lines I've noticed this quite a bit with clients that I've trained where I've done a little bit of work on their grip and on the wrist and because they feel so much stronger and more stable and That's more stability. They're stronger on their presses. They're stronger on their rows Because they just feel so much stronger in their grip even in their presses even I tell you what you see some guys do this Well, they're where they're heavy benchers and they're really strong with their bench Because the wrist and their grip isn't strong enough to support it They'll have wrist wraps that literally go around the wrist and it allows them to bench press more weight So you would be surprised now you guys are pretty advanced you guys trained a pretty heavy But you see to be surprised the average person a little bit of grip training and they notice these in tremendous Benefits and really okay. Here's what it boils down to our hands connect us to the world We evolved using our hands a lot with things if you ever shake the hand of a blue-collar worker You know exactly what I'm talking about. That's a different species people today. We work on computer We'd ever challenge our hands at all and because this connects us to the world We become super weak. So then they go to the gym They train their body and their grip is just strong enough to hold on to the bar And do their exercises a little bit of grip work for the average person I think can can make a pretty big difference kung fu grip