Grip Strength: The Mortality Number Most Lifters Ignore
When a doctor checks your risk of an early death, they reach for the obvious numbers: blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar. They almost never reach for your hand. That’s the mistake a decade of evidence has quietly corrected. Grip strength is not a party trick. It is one of the strongest, cheapest, most repeatable predictors of how long you’ll stay alive and independent — and, in the largest study ever done on it, a stronger predictor of cardiovascular death than systolic blood pressure. ...