Jeff Cavaliere

You're gonna sit there angry at your fist because it won't contract as hard as you know it can.

You don't have the ability to just create the output.

And that is because in that state, you're still sleepy.

You're still fatigued.

You're not even awake at the whole level at this point.

So when you start to measure that on a daily basis,

you can get a pretty good sense of where you're at.

And I think when people start to see a drop off of 10% or so, or even greater of their grip output, you really should skip the gym that day, because I don't think there's much you're gonna do there that's going to be that beneficial, even if it is the day to train legs or whatever day it is.

I mean, there certainly are more sophisticated tools, too, as a PT.

We have hand grip dynamometers.

We can measure one side at a time, but that comes with a cost.

Those are pretty expensive devices.

But if it's, listen, if you're an athlete, the 200, 300 bucks it costs to have one of those would be well worth the added investment.

In general, the two basic forms of stretching are active stretching and passive stretching.

And your passive stretching is done with the goal of trying to create an increase in the flexibility of the muscle.

So whether you're actually increasing the length of that muscle, more so what you're doing is decreasing the resistance of that muscle to want to stay at a certain,

level of flexibility.

When we can sort of take the brakes off and allow that muscle to allow us more range of motion, we're inherently increasing flexibility without necessarily having to increase the length of that muscle.

That is usually done at a time far away from your workout because there is a period of recalibration

that is needed after doing this because you're disrupting the length-tension relationship of the muscle that causes you to not necessarily be able to rely on these, I've talked about before, stored motor engrams in your mind in terms of this is the pattern for how I swing a golf club, say.