What's Optimal For Grip Strength During Aging?

I just turned 60. Checked my grip strength now. 83.6 on right and 77.4 on left.

Great video. I use Captains of Crush grip trainers almost everyday in the office especially during boring Skype meetings!

The problem with plotting hazard ratio against grip strength is that grip strength reduces with age after age 40(ish), so all it shows is that your risk of dying increases with age, which is obvious. The data needs to be re-analysed in age bands.

I’m going for the men’s graph. I can carry six gallons of water at once for quite a ways and up steps, bc we have to buy water. 🤣 One hand is definitely stronger tho. I am part German so I guess it’s built in to carry around a bunch of liquid.

in my experience fwiw grip strength increases: -after a long (>8000 steps) brisk (2~steps/min) walk (particularly if done the sun) -after a good night sleep (heavily depending on what probiotika i took the day before, which make me sleep better for some reason) -(not reliably but sometimes ive noticed this) after eating resistant starch (fun fun: starch in german = stärke and stärke in english also means strength 😛)

One thing I don't understand is whether training grip strength will reduce all cause mortality. It's hard for me to believe that grip strength is causing significantly lower all cause mortality. So then it'd be nearly pointless to train grip strength - is that correct? Do you plan to train your grip strength (although you lift weights, so you've been training it indirectly as least, but wondering if you plan to target it)? I just wonder how meaningful it would be to see someone like you has lower or higher grip strength.

Grip strength or doing activities that increase grip strength does seem relevant for the general population. If you are training with a grip device, you probably should be doing farmers walks or using a barbell/dumbbell/kettlebell for functional movements. The really interesting one is toe strength which has one of the highest associations with fall risk.

I got slightly below my bodyweight for left, and slightly above for right. I'm lean and wiry, not big.

While you're training some grip strength, do some pull ups or deadlifts, farmers carry, or some other functional excercise to train the grip

Supposedly, leg strength is linked to longevity. What do you believe is the best method to measure leg strength for longevity, a 1 rep squat max test, a 30 second chair sit to stand test, an isometric mid thigh pull test or an isometric belt quarter squat test?

I’m in my 60’ and currently have a grip strength over 200 I’m working towards closing the Captans of Crush (tm) 3 (about 280 lbs) Too bad it’s a correlation not a causation.

I would like to know what the ranges should be for the camry for all different age groups separately for every 5 years or so. I can get 82kg on my right with the camry and 72.5kg on the left hand.

Mike any comments on causality on this topic? EG if one improves grip strength does it follow that their lifespan is likely to increase? Or is grip strength more of a marker of avoiding sarcopenia?

Nice video! The devices seem to involve different movements... The camry seems to isolate the fingers a bit more,.or do I see it wrong?

Can "great than " ever be optimal? There's no upper limit...Is a grip strength of 150kgs better than 50kgs?

Mike, is that 50 kg per hand or total for both hands together? Would squeezing a bathroom scale work as a reasonable way to measure it?

What causes muscles to become weaker even if they are life long lifters?

Grip Strength is mostly a useless parameter for health. If a cancer patient used hand grip devices daily they could have a grip in the top 1% for their age and still die within 1 year. So grip strength is a very poor correlation of health or longevity but not a cause of health or longer life

I can max out the Camry EH101, does this mean I will live forever?

Since it's a measure of systemic health i guess if someone specifically trains for it this loses all meaning right? Since it's correlation not causation