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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna talk about weak grip, weak wrists,
single best exercise to strengthen fast.
- Exactly, Bob, so the grip and the wrist are not
two separate components. - No.
They're actually connected. - They work together.
And that's what we're gonna talk about,
how you can really get
a good quality strengthening exercise without hassles.
- We're also gonna do something really neat at the end.
- Oh yeah. - I'll talk about
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Enough of this, Bob, let's carry on.
- So I'm gonna tell the teaser right away, Brad, okay?
- Okay.
- At the end, I've been using this grip strengthener,
and it's increased my grip strength without doubt.
I'm 58 years old; I'm gonna take on Alex.
How old are you, Alex?
Alex is 28, so I'm 30 years older.
- [Liz] He's 29!
- Oh, he's 29!
(laughs)
- Oh, why, why, Bob?
- His wife is filming, and she goes, "He's 29!"
Oh my god, he doesn't even know his age?
- Well, let's carry on.
- Alright, so we're going to carry on.
I'm going to take him on at the end,
see who's got the strongest grip.
'Cause he hasn't been using that,
but he's a big, strapping guy.
- Bob, people want to know about this.
- Alright!
- They don't care about all that stuff.
Okay, here we go.
So, traditional grip strengthening,
absolutely nothing wrong with it.
This is one unit, the classic--
- Kind of a squeezer, or what do they call it?
- Right, the spring-- - [Bob] Spring loaded.
- Yeah, the V-shape.
Nothing wrong with it.
It's definitely going to strengthen your wrist.
You know you're going to need a stronger one
as you get stronger.
You'll have to buy another one to do that.
But that just--
- Really strengthens the fingers,
not so much the wrist part of it.
- Right, and then you can get the wrist,
a real classic, a very nice exercise
with a dumbbell.
You could work the wrist like this.
And again, that's good, but it's mostly
strengthening the wrist.
And with the weight, as you come up,
once you get past a certain point,
there's not so much resistance anymore,
because of the physics of it.
And that's just normal with weight lifting.
There's nothing wrong with that.
The nice thing about this, you can strengthen extension.
- [Bob] Extension, yeah.
- Which if you want to strengthen your grip,
you definitely want to strengthen this part
of your wrist and the extension.
- Yeah, 'cause when you grip,
your wrist naturally goes into extension.
- Sure.
- So you've got to strengthen those extensions, too.
But with that, what you'll find is, you can also
do a radial deviation. - Radial, right.
- But what you're going to find with it is
after a while that's not enough weight.
- Right!
- So then you gotta get another,
you gotta get a whole set of weights.
- Right.
Then you have to have a place to store them, which is fine.
Some people don't have a problem with that.
But, what we found, this new grip strengthener,
which was invented--
- By Jay Heisel,
we want to give Jay a shout out.
- And he was an avid rock climber,
and he wanted to get his grip strength
as good as he could.
I mean, your life depends on it when you're rock climbing.
- That's right; yeah, it's critical.
- And so he was not satisfied with this traditional way.
And this was quite a few years ago,
- It was like 20 years ago.
He was a patient of mine.
So that's how we became aware of this.
- Right.
And so this is the device he invented.
Now, it looks like a little bit of a mess,
but you'll see as we use it, it satisfies--
- All the criteria.
Even better, you can take it with you on vacation,
or to work, you know, you don't have the issues--
- So this does have our input, too.
'Cause it was a little different when, to start,
so it became a Bob and Brad thing
by the end.
- Right.
- That's why it says "Strong Like Bull" on here.
- Right.
But the way this works, is we have resistance bands.
There's four of them, and that's
so that you can vary the resistance as you get stronger.
But to start out, typically, what we have is--
- You can even start with just one band, Brad.
- Yeah.
- You can just even put one band around one foot.
- You do one, and I'll do two.
And then they can see the difference.
And now you need to put your forearms,
it must be done in a seated position.
You're not going to do it standing,
or laying down; it's a seated position.
- The forearms gotta be supported.
- Right.
So I'm gonna go this way--
- You can also go on the inner thigh, like this.
- Sure.
- So my forearms are supported on my inner thigh right now.
- Right.
I like to go like this, but you can do
whatever works good for you.
- I can go like this, too.
- Now watch this.
I'm gonna go down, and I'm gonna let my fingers
hold it, so now I'm strengthening those fingers,
finger flexion, and then when I get to the point
where it rolls in, I'm--
- You can bring it way up like that.
- Right.
Now with the resistance bands, you actually
get stronger and more resistance as it comes up higher.
Which, with the weight, as you get up higher,
you get to a certain point and it doesn't have
that same effect; it gets easier as you get up.
So this has that advantage.
- Now I'm gonna warn you now, Brad,
because we had one lady that returned one.
- Right.
- And because this wouldn't be somebody
if you've had surgery or just starting out.
- Right.
- Because even one band is a fair amount of resistance.
- Right.
- And it wouldn't be if you have arthritis,
I don't think this is going to help you either.
It's just too much stress on you.
- Right.
So, yeah, she was doing her exercises,
and she reported that her wrists were getting
really sore after it,
and it wasn't working out for her.
- You also gotta make sure, Brad, I mean
you don't do this every day.
- Right.
- I mean, I was doing it every day for a while,
'cause Jay told me, "Oh, I did it every day."
- Yeah.
- And I got so sore, I had to stop.
- Yeah.
- I had to stop for weeks!
- Right.
- 'Cause it really does put stresses on your wrists.
- So I would recommend starting out just 10 repetitions,
this way, then make sure you go this way, so that your palms
are down, so you get wrist extension.
And then also, you can get radial deviation this way,
so the palms are in towards the sides or the ends
of the handle.
Let me stabilize my forearms right.
There we go!
- And I actually do 15, Brad.
Just to let you know the numbers.
- Yep
- Generally, I find, like, this one,
I can do quite a bit of weight.
In fact, I almost do all four bands.
- Yep.
- And this one off to the side,
I only can do two bands.
- Right.
- And then this one, I fatigue rapidly.
And maybe it's 'cause I've done all the other ones.
But I'll also do four bands on that, but--
- And he's talking about two or four bands.
Right now he's got all four bands around.
- When you get to this one, I'm getting
a pretty good workout now; it's really humming along here.
- We're quite certain there's not going to be anybody
too strong to work these.
One nice thing about it, is if my feet are together
and I'm doing this, that's so much resistance.
But if I bring my feet apart, that puts a considerable
amount on increase, so you can vary the resistance
just by where you put your feet, like that.
- I have to correct you, Brad.
If you get a power lifter or something like that,
this is not going to give them enough resistance.
- Well, Bob, I don't know.
If they put it there, there'd be some, I'm sure--
- These guys I'm talking about that can bench 400 pounds,
and stuff like that, I--
- Well, we'll put a couple more bands on it--
- There you go.
- We've got extra holes.
- There you go; that's exactly right.
- We could modify it to work for even
the real stud-muffins out there.
But it's a really nice device, it--
- Very portable.
- Yeah, Jay did a really nice job on thinking of how
the concept was gonna work.
- So, we'll have a link down below,
but right now can we do the contest?
- So, we've got the 58 year old man,
who's been working out with the grip strengthener,
and we've got the 29 year old--
- 29 or 28 somewhere he's in there.
- This guy is tough.
- Let him sit down in your chair.
- Oh, sure.
- [Alex] I'm feeling 28 today, boys! (claps)
- You get my chair; you get my chair.
- So, by the way, this is Alex.
He's married to Liz, who's doing our filming right now.
They have a channel called the Family Product Channel.
- Family Product Channel.
- Go subscribe to them!
They're really funny.
They review products that you might use in your family.
- And my wife's good looking.
- Yeah, someone's good looking in the family, finally!
- Yep, yep.
- You wanted to go first?
- I'm nervous; you go first.
- Okay.
- Are we going to do both sides?
- I don't know, one side.
- A lot of people aren't aware of what we have here.
This is a dynamometer. - This is a dynamometer.
It measures in pounds, and also kilograms.
But we'll just go by pounds here, so, ready?
- I'm not nervous about being on camera.
I'm nervous about what's about to happen here.
- Alright, elbow into my side, right angle.
Okay, come on baby.
(exhales forcefully)
- [Brad] Nah, you can't look.
This has gotta be a third party.
- [Alex] The needle didn't move, folks.
- Get outta there!
(laughs)
Okay, wanna do it again?
One more time.
You're shaking there.
That aging process.
There we go, good!
Alright, not going to tell?
(whispering) 120 pounds.
(laughs)
Okay.
- [Alex] Is the needle reset?
- [Brad] I'm gonna reset the needle.
- Alright. - [Brad] Alright.
Come on!
Relax.
- Oop, I slipped on that one.
- I thought I heard your knuckle crack.
- [Bob] Yeah, I heard your knuckle crack.
- I slipped. - Oh, he slipped.
- That's not gonna be--
- Yeah, you're really not supposed to rest your arm there.
- Oh. - There you go.
- [Bob] I think we're about tied.
- Are you breathing?
Go!
- [Bob] Oh, you did better on the slip one.
- Yeah, relax.
(exhales loudly)
One more time.
Bring it in--
- [Bob] I'm gonna be dancing here.
- Yeah.
(grunts)
Why do you--
- I can't get a good grip on this!
- Oh, are you using the grip?
- Let's see what it looks like there.
- Well, you know-- - What'd we get?
- If we did the average, it was about 115, 100, 106, so--
- What?
- Yeah, Bob beat ya!
Probably by 16 pounds.
- I could not get a grip on that thing.
I'll be honest!
I'll be honest.
Let's go left.
We gotta go left.
We got time?
- I've got a Dupuytren's contracture on this one.
- Oh, my god.
- [Brad] We don't worry about that.
- Yeah, my hand was slipping.
- Are you left handed?
(grunts)
- It's a little bit more on that one.
- 118? - 118.
- Here try it again; try it again.
Technically, you do three and average it, but--
- He's saving face here now. - We're having fun, but
- He's getting weaker? - He's getting weaker!
- Alright, that's it; that's it.
- [Brad] There's a fatigue factor here as well.
See, Bob doesn't fatigue like you.
- It's accurate.
That time I didn't slip.
- He's obviously stronger than me.
- Unbelievable.
- But that shows you the power of the grip strengthener.
(laughs)
- He does have some massive forearms, I'll give him that.
- Alright.
- This is embarrassing.
- Thank you so much for watching.