Jeff Cavaliere

You might have a bicep that's able to be trained that can be trained again the next day.

And then the next day, and then maybe you need a day off after that, that can vary from person to person for sure.

And it can vary from muscle to muscle in that person over the course of time, as you mentioned, because the systemic recovery is going to impact all those muscles anyway.

But let's say you're systemically recovering,

every muscle itself is going to have a recovery rate.

And I think that using muscle soreness as a guideline for that is one of the only tools we have in terms of the local level.

Well, that's the one that most people can relate to and easily identify and then use that as a guideline.

And if you're training when you're really sore, it's probably not a great idea.

But as far as the systemic recovery, grip strength is very, very much tied to

performance and recovery.

And when I was at the Mets, we used to actually take grip strength measurements as a baseline in spring training all the time.

Now, obviously as a baseball player, you're gripping a bat, you're a pitcher, you're gripping a ball, like, you know, having good grip strength is important.

So if we've noticed somebody had a very weak grip, it's just a good focal point of a specialized training component for the program.

No, in spring training, we do sort of a baseline entry level measurement, and then we would measure it throughout the season, maybe once every two weeks or three weeks.

And the idea there was to measure the recovery.

We have found that with one of those scales, those old fashioned bathroom scales, it's a great tool for just squeezing the scale with your hands and seeing what type of output you could get.

imagine the last time you were sick or just try this the next time you wake up in the morning.

When you first wake up in the morning, you're still groggy.

Try to squeeze your hand.

Try to make a fist as hard as you can.