Jeff Cavaliere

Like you might do the same bicep workout I do and need more time to recover than I would. What's interesting is from the individual themselves, certain muscle groups require more or less frequency to recover from. So I might find that I could train my biceps every three days but I could never train my back every three days, or I could never train my chest every three days.

Like you might do the same bicep workout I do and need more time to recover than I would. What's interesting is from the individual themselves, certain muscle groups require more or less frequency to recover from. So I might find that I could train my biceps every three days but I could never train my back every three days, or I could never train my chest every three days.

It's just so intricate because every muscle is gonna be different for every person. And even at a holistic one level, you're just not gonna find the same recovery rate across the board for every muscle in your body. So a lot of times I think people should rely on a little bit of training intuition to say, hey, like, am I increasing my weights? Is my strength going up on the lift?

It's just so intricate because every muscle is gonna be different for every person. And even at a holistic one level, you're just not gonna find the same recovery rate across the board for every muscle in your body. So a lot of times I think people should rely on a little bit of training intuition to say, hey, like, am I increasing my weights? Is my strength going up on the lift?

Am I feeling excited to train that muscle when I go to train it? If I am, then I'm probably recovering well. And you can experiment with like hitting it again more frequently. I think in the big picture, the more frequently that you can stimulate a muscle, the better the results are going to be.

Am I feeling excited to train that muscle when I go to train it? If I am, then I'm probably recovering well. And you can experiment with like hitting it again more frequently. I think in the big picture, the more frequently that you can stimulate a muscle, the better the results are going to be.

Pretty important, huh? A lot of that research has been determined to be more correlative than causative, but the fact is that maintaining your grip strength is very important. So what I mean by the correlative causative thing is that what they find is that people that maintain their grip strength throughout life are probably doing so because they're regularly engaging in physical activity.

Pretty important, huh? A lot of that research has been determined to be more correlative than causative, but the fact is that maintaining your grip strength is very important. So what I mean by the correlative causative thing is that what they find is that people that maintain their grip strength throughout life are probably doing so because they're regularly engaging in physical activity.

Likely they are lifting weights, they're holding heavy weights, they're having to manipulate their body in space if they're doing calisthenic exercises. So there's a level of activity that remains in their grip that probably keeps their level of strength at a higher level.

Likely they are lifting weights, they're holding heavy weights, they're having to manipulate their body in space if they're doing calisthenic exercises. So there's a level of activity that remains in their grip that probably keeps their level of strength at a higher level.

So you're selecting out people that are just generally maintaining their fitness, in which case they're probably maintaining higher levels of health and lower issues as they age.

So you're selecting out people that are just generally maintaining their fitness, in which case they're probably maintaining higher levels of health and lower issues as they age.

Right, or lacking, right? You're not doing enough of. That being said, you can actually directly measure your ability to recover from exercise based upon having a baseline understanding of what your grip strength is and then monitoring what that is over weeks or months of training.

Right, or lacking, right? You're not doing enough of. That being said, you can actually directly measure your ability to recover from exercise based upon having a baseline understanding of what your grip strength is and then monitoring what that is over weeks or months of training.

So if you were to measure your grip strength with a tool like this in the morning, five mornings in a row and average it out at a time where you feel like you're feeling energetic and good, that will give you a good baseline of what your grip strength is. What's a good grip strength? So most men would be somewhere between 100, I'll talk in pounds, 100 to 120 pounds.

So if you were to measure your grip strength with a tool like this in the morning, five mornings in a row and average it out at a time where you feel like you're feeling energetic and good, that will give you a good baseline of what your grip strength is. What's a good grip strength? So most men would be somewhere between 100, I'll talk in pounds, 100 to 120 pounds.

So if you look at that, that's around 46 kilos to 54 kilos. If you want to give it a shot, see where you stack up.

So if you look at that, that's around 46 kilos to 54 kilos. If you want to give it a shot, see where you stack up.

so to do this now there's some rules here yeah don't go like this you know keep it in here don't touch your arm to the table at all keep it yeah 90 degrees like that yep and then you're just gonna squeeze you know one good effort as hard as you can all right don't blow out now all right let's see oh gosh my head nearly exploded

so to do this now there's some rules here yeah don't go like this you know keep it in here don't touch your arm to the table at all keep it yeah 90 degrees like that yep and then you're just gonna squeeze you know one good effort as hard as you can all right don't blow out now all right let's see oh gosh my head nearly exploded