| > Grip strength is a leading indicator of whether or not an elderly person will recover from a fall. I suspect that this is one of those things where the correlation falls apart as soon as you start training explicitly for it. Many clinicians use grip strength can be used as a proxy for overall strength[1], but the actual correlation is often moderate, at best[2]. Grip strength is just much easier to measure than, say, someone's max deadlift, so some inaccuracy is allowed. But _only_ training grip shouldn't have much effect on hip fractures. You can use one of those squeeze handles all day, every day, and not improve your overall survivability. Likewise, squats would have little effect on your grip strength, but should correlate highly to surviving a fall. All of which is to say, ignore all the stories about how grip strength, or the sitting-rising test[3], or any other "trick" that is supposed to correlate on long life, and focus instead on being overall strong and limber. For most people, yoga is probably sufficient. Adding in some basic weight lifting would be excellent, too, for most people. [1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6778477/ [2]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29935982/ [3]: https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/health/take-th... |