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You must have the world's greatest grip
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strength.
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>> Uh, I definitely don't.
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>> I have a grip strength meteor.
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>> I've had tons of people be like, "Well,
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surely you're going to break the
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machine." I'm like, "No, because for
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climbing, you you just have the strength
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that you need to do the things that
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you're trying to do."
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>> Okay, go ahead.
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>> Your hands are quite different. I was
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They're quite big hands.
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>> Well, that's I mean, you know, think
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like a stonemason just like grinding
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away their whole life.
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>> It does look like you have very um
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wide fingers. Yeah, my fingers uh have
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taken a lot of abuse in their time
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>> cuz I see you like putting them in in
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between walls
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>> and then like Yeah, crack climbing. It's
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like you basically put your fingers into
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a crack and then you torque them. And so
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like the side to side pulling uh does
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sort of make your connective tissue
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bigger.
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>> And does that hurt?
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>> Yeah, it hurts.
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>> I was wondering when you're going
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uphill.
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>> I mean, when you're doing it well with
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good technique, it it's not that
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painful. It depends on the type of rock,
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but some rock is kind of sharp and kind
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of painful. When you're doing it well,
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it has a pleasant feel of safety to it
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cuz you can really like lock into cracks
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and it feels comfortable and you feel
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like you're swimming. and you're like,
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"This is beautiful." But when you really
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come down to the sensations, you're
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still crushing your bones into a crack
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like it still hurts.
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>> When I look at this kind of photo
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>> where you're It looks like you're
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hanging by one and a half hands.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And you're going to fall to your death
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if you if your grip isn't
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>> sufficient. It makes me think you must
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have the world's greatest grip strength.
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>> Uh I definitely don't.
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>> I have a grip strength meteor. I'm very
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fascinated to see what your grip
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strength is like.
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>> I wouldn't be even a little bit
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surprised if you can pull that more than
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I can actually. But I mean, we'll both
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try. I've had tons of people be like,
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"Well, surely you're going to break the
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machine." I'm like, "No, because for
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climbing, you you just have the strength
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that you need to do the things that
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you're trying to do." Okay, go ahead.
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I have to try a few times to see what's
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ergonomic. This says 46 and 1/2. This is
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43 and 1/2. Like, I don't even
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understand what this is. You know what I
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mean? Like, like as a climber, you never
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grip. This is like gripping a bar or
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something. Mhm. Like, so actually,
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literally this morning, I was doing
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poles on a block. like I had a 20 mm
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edge which is basically the same edge as
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this and I had just a bunch of weight
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strapped on it and then you just lift
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the edge off the ground and I was
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lifting 135 lbs basically like strapped
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all their dumbbells together and was
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just like lifting off the ground
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>> which is obviously much more than this
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because that's a slightly more climbing
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applicable you know this is like 42 this
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is like I don't even know
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>> if I look
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49 or 50 let's see yours but yeah like
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>> different arms
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>> uh it's about the same with both hands
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62.
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>> Yeah. See, there you go.
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>> Strongest.
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>> I can't lift my body weight.
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>> Yeah. I mean, I might be able to muster
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a little more in it, but
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>> 63 on that one.
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>> Let me try again. Do you work out? Like,
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you do weights and stuff? I
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>> I lift dumbbells, but I'm not doing
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anything grippy. I curl and stuff, but I
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don't do anything grippy.
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>> I know. I'm at 50 and a half.
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>> Okay. This is the thing is I've had a
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bunch of people who are like, "What's
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your grip strength?" And you're like,
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"Well, this isn't this isn't the
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measure." You know? So that's another
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thing with grip strength is like it
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makes sense that your grip strength is
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proportionally I mean you're like 25%
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bigger than me. Yeah.
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>> So it's like you would expect it to at
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least 25% stronger right there just
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because like if you can do body
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weightight pull-ups you're going to be
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much stronger. Yeah.