Welcome back to Fit Buddy Happy Joins. My name is Shannon. Today I've got the team with me, Dr. Payton and Dr. Jill, and we are doing a question and answer. And these are questions that we've gotten on on Instagram either via a question box on my stories or

comments or dams and so they are commonly asked questions so these are things that we

wanted to address. So let's go right into it. First question is about grip strength.

They asked, grip strength is limiting my lower body lifts. Any tips?

Yeah, I feel like I can relate to this one because I feel the same way.

But what I like to do is instead of holding like at the middle of the dumbbell, I'll hold more

towards the head of the dumbbell to where my pinky side of my hand is

resting on the head of the dumbbell and that basically just decreases load through

the wrist muscles and can feel more supportive.

Other things you could try would be placing the weight

on your hip crease or letting the weight rest on your shoulder,

again, just to kind of decrease load through the wrist. I know Shannon

has mentioned using like lifting gloves which I've never tried. Shannon don't

know if you have anything to add to that. Yeah the lifting gloves just are nice because then you don't have to

grip the weight as much like it just creates a little bit more friction on the dumbball. You don't feel like it's like

sliding out of your hands so that's really helpful and then like lifting straps I've never used but the ones where you

like wrap them around your wrist and and the dumbbell and those are really

cheap on Amazon. I've been meaning to get lifting gloves for so long and I just continued to maybe I'll go order those like

right after this episode. Yeah I think those are great tips I think that

resting the weight on your rest is a really good one that no one really thinks about and you would think that like that's not proper form but it's totally fine that that's yeah and doesn't decrease the load to the lower body. Exactly.

Great answer.

All right.

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