5 Ways to Test Your Grip Strength (and why it matters to your health)

Whether you're opening a jar or lifting your dumbbells, your grip strength is integral to your ability to do just about everything with your hands. Weakened grip strength is linked to risks for things like falls, fractures, prolonged recovery from illness, cognitive decline and more. Today I'm giving you 5 ways you can test your grip strength so you have a good benchmark of where you're at, and you can use that as motivation to stay strong!

Watch the video of this episode to see demonstrations for grip strength tests: https://thebettyrocker.com/5-ways-to-test-your-grip-strength-and-why-it-matters-to-your-health/

We're covering….

⭐️ What grip strength signifies for your overall health

⭐️ Correlations with mortality risk related to poor grip strength

⭐️ Correlations with cognitive decline related to poor grip strength

⭐️ Testing your grip strength with a dynamometer

⭐️ Testing your grip strength with a household scale

⭐️ Testing your grip strength with a dead hang

⭐️ Testing your grip strength with a dumbbell head grab

⭐️ Testing your grip strength with a farmer's carry

⭐️ Your grip strength and your overall strength

Links to follow up from this episode:

• Prognostic value of grip strength: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study

• My shocking accident and how my health habits saved me

• Protein Guide for women (part 1)

• Eating and Training Guides for Perimenopause and Post-menopause 

• How much exercise is too much?

• Rock and Restore essential amino acids from Whole Betty by Betty Rocker

• Dynamometer (hand grip strength measurement tool)

• Watch this podcast as a video and see the demonstrations for hand grip tests