How Your Grip Strength Affects Your Overall Health

Daily activities like carrying groceries from the car to the kitchen and holding hand railings while going up and down stairs have something in common... we use our grip to do these things. Grip strength is easily overlooked when it comes to how it contributes to our overall health. Having a good grip is essential to helping us live a mobile and independent life.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

1). Why we chose to include grip strength as part of an important aspect of maintaining independence as we age.

2). Some of the feedback that Meredith received over the years from training clients and how their grip strength played an important role in their lives.

3). How having good grip strength can help keep you safe from injury by preventing falls.

4). Why a grip strength test should be included in yearly health check ups as we age.

5). Some examples of easy to do grip strength exercises that you can do any time at home or in between workouts.

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We hope the information we've shared in this episode helps you think more about grip strength and why it's so important to helping us live healthy lives. Staying mobile, independent and active as we age is the goal and including some simple and easy grip strengthening exercises during your week can help make a difference when you need it most.

Team Meredith

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