Jeff Cavaliere

Through those last couple knuckles that we have on our hands.

Though our hand can still hold it there, the muscles are not equipped to handle those types of loads.

And it could start at dumbbell weight, you know, 40 pounds, 30 pounds, you know, even 25 pounds for some, depending upon their overall strength levels.

But then when you start to apply it to something like

your body weight with a chin up, right?

Because that's natural for the bar to somewhat kind of float down towards your fingertips.

And it actually is a little bit easier to perform the exercise with that sort of like false grip, little hook grip at the end because you're not going to engage the forearms into the exercise.

You're not going to start pulling down.

But at the same time, while it could help you to perform them better by getting the back more activated, if you have weakness in these muscles, because it's not a thing that happens to every, it's not one of those upright row type things where I think this is happening to everybody.

This is happening to people that have these inherent weaknesses in these muscles.

You, or haven't done enough of the gripping in the fore, in the meat of the hand, you know, for long enough, but it starts to,

put that stress on these muscles that are ill-equipped to do this and to handle this.

And it starts to, particularly on that fourth finger, you know, which is part of the muscle we call the FDS, the flexor digitorum, that is just too much for it to handle.

And that comes all the way down and meets right at the medial elbow, right on that spot that you can say feels like someone's knifing you right in the middle, in that medial elbow.

And medial epicondylitis, or they call it golfer's elbow, is something that

a lot of us deal with in the gym.

It's one of the most common inflammatory conditions people get from the gym.

And it all comes from this positioning of the dumbbell or barbell or hand on a pull-up bar over time.

So the easiest thing to do is just grip deeper so that what you're doing is you're using more leverage from the palm to encapsulate the bar or the dumbbell or whatever.

And you're not putting that pressure really distally right on that last