Jeff Cavaliere

So stability is a key for more efficient movement and also, I think, long-term safer movement.

It is one of those things that can happen so quickly too.

Like you could go from having no elbow pain to the very next day having elbow pain or even right after the workout doing elbow pain if you're doing a lot of chin-ups with this issue where the bar is too far away.

And it's just an overload issue.

Essentially the muscles, the flexors, the deep flexors of the forearm that run down into the fingers,

It's actually the ring and fifth finger.

So the fourth and fifth finger that tend to be the weakest and least resilient to that kind of stress.

If you're gripping through there and that bar gets deep into the fingers, or if you do it where you're doing a curl, even if the bar sits too deep into your hand there and you try to curl heavy.

To the ends of your fingers.

To the ends of your fingers, yeah.

And not into the actual meat of your hand.

It's just a lot of strain, more than that muscle's really built for to handle.

And those tendons get a little bit strained and it can immediately feel like a knife in the elbow feel.

And it takes a long time to go away.

Because how many other exercises do you do where you're gripping and requiring the grip to be in place to do that?

Now, if you want to intentionally do this, you can do it intentionally.

Let's say a...

an underhand lat pulldown, like they call it a hook grip.

Because what people want to discourage people from doing is pulling down too much with the bar, causing too much forearm involvement in whatever back exercise I'm trying to do.

But in that case, you're really trying to hook through the stronger fingers of the index finger, middle finger, and even just