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