Yo, it's Elliot with yo Elliot. You've got strength questions and I've always got your answers Yo Elliot All right, well today we've got a couple questions about grip strength their text questions Namely wondering how to eliminate their grip weakness as a limiting factor in pulling exercises like the deadlift Now before I get started with how to improve your grip strength two quick very interesting things one I recently read a gallop study that was published in the New York Times and I'll link it up if I can find it where they described people Have stronger grips or hand strength as healthier and living longer and they associated all types of Reasons why stronger hands lead to longevity and good health So if you got old people that you care about tell them start deadlift thing. We're doing dead hangs Maybe they'll live longer The other cool thing is that by increasing your grip strength your triggering something that's called Irredation essentially where when you grip your hand tight You can't your nervous system can't help but to start Activating all the muscles that are associated with closing your hand tight, you know, this is one of our most superficial Functions that it happens way outside the center of my body when I say superficial. I mean out here. This is proximal distal superficial Internal probably not the right word probably more like central, but anyway So by having stronger hands you will ultimately be able to do you'll be stronger in your chest and your shoulders And your back if you've ever watched some of the bench press deadlifts Videos by Dave Tate. I think there's some of them on his YouTube channel. He talks about improving your bench press by squeezing the bar tighter That's your adation at its finest. So by increasing your grip strength You're not only going to be able to hold things With your hands better per se but you'll also be able to have produced better function in your back and your chest and your shoulders Everything as it makes its way to the center of your body So long story short you won't have a pretty strong grip for multiple reasons besides heavy frickin deadlifts now couple tips for you for increasing your deadlift strength and Just the answer one of the specific questions in your questions that you guys asked I would say Somebody wanted to know if they should use straps straps are cool. They're good, but don't Become reliant on them. I've used them before in order to build up my deadlift strength, but I'm sure I'll use it if it's you know as a tool or an accessory to regular deadlift thing which is with with without straps now The very first exercise that I would add to your Regimen in order to improve your grip strength would be to do Dead holes, so basically you would get a barbell You'd load it up with weight that you could probably do about 10 to 12 repetitions on for like a deadlift or a bent over row hold it With Subinated grip. That means your hands up Subinated you remember that by saying like you could hold a bowl of soup in your hands pronated supinated supinated grip grab the bar Drop your shoulders back and just hold the bar watching a clock And basically beat your time from week to week reason why I asked you to do it and supinated because might as well kill two Birds of one stone when you supinate in that hole you also build up the strength of your upper back Which is going to be critical for your deadlift strength and being a strong son of a bitch as well Supinated dead holds every week try to beat your time you're gonna hold for a minute then hold it for two minutes Now the way you another thing that I would do and I'd probably get on this as soon as possible is to do that with two with a two inch bar Axle or with back grips and back grips are basically these little tubular type things that you can add to your bar so that you have a Fatter bar to hold on to that's really gonna force you to work a lot harder You can get many and go to back grips.com to find these things Just put them on your bar. You hold on as long as you can with that That two inch hole that's gonna be really helpful for you Then and add that at the end of your workout. Don't do that and then go try to deadlift Then also add a couple accessory strength grips right next to your program including wrist rollers. I've got the iron mine wrist roller here. I like that Dumbbell hex holds I don't have a dumbbell here, but essentially So you'll that's holds like this you hold the dumbbell like that bang Hopefully you guys can see that and you do it for time bang It's really gonna build your finger strength the other thing is grab plates over right back You take ten pound plates like this and Just hold on to it bang as long as you can those are two cool exercises If don't take special equipment and then finally another really cool one is just dead hangs grab a chin up bar And hang as long as you can like you do with the with the the deadlift holds You tie yourself this week beat it next week That's it add those to your program keep increasing your grip strength men. They're the keepers of the house You've got to have strong hands to be a strong man. Thanks for your video questions. Oh Send me more video questions Thanks for your questions. I'm Elliot Holt. Talk to you next time. Yo Elliot You