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So the easiest thing to do is just grip deeper so that what you're doing is you're using more leverage from the palm to encapsulate the bar or the dumbbell or whatever and you're not putting that pressure really distally right on that last digit because that's where that FDS muscle is most strained.
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And medial epicondylitis or they call it golfers elbow is something that a lot of us deal with in the gym. It's one of the most common inflammatory conditions people get from the gym and it all comes from this positioning of the dumbbell or barbell or hand on a pull-up bar over time.
And that comes all the way down and meets right at the medial elbow right on that spot that you can say feels like someone's knifing you right in the middle in that medal elbow and and medial epicondilitis or they call it golfer's elbow is something that a lot of us deal with in in the gym. It's one of the most common inflammatory conditions people get from the gym. And it all comes from this positioning of the dumbbell or barbell or hand on a pull-up bar over time.
So on a bench press say um that bar can drift just by gravity doing doing its thing or fatigue of the the hand grip strength can start to drift further away towards the the distal digits right through those through those last couple knuckles that we have on our hands though our hand can still hold it there the muscles are not equipped to handle those types of loads and it could start at dumbbell weight you know 40 lb 30 lb you know even 25 pounds for some depending upon their overall strength levels. But then when you start to apply it to something like your body weight with a chin up, right? Because that's natural for the bar to somewhat kind of float down towards your fingertips.