Get a grip, Millennials: Today's men have less grip strength than their dads

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Millennials have become a popular cultural punching bag in recent years, with the below-34 generation blamed for being entitled, having less sex and even helping bring about the demise of breakfast cereal.

Now, millennials can add “being weaker than their dads” to that list.

A new American study published in the Journal of Hand Therapy found that Millennial men may have significantly weaker hands and arms than men their age 30 years ago.

Researchers studied 237 healthy, fulltime university students from North Carolina and tested their grip strength (the ability to squeeze something) and their pinch strength (the ability to pinch something using two fingers.)

The findings showed a significant gap between the strength of modern men versus those in the mid-1980s. The typical 20-to-34-year old man was able to apply 98 lbs of force when squeezing something with their right hand, while an average man in 1985 could grip with 117 pounds of force.

As for women, researchers found their grip strength went nearly unchanged from the mid-1980s until today, with average right-hand grip hovering around 75 lbs.

Older millennial women (between ages 30 to 34) actually showed an increase of about 20 lbs in grip strength compared to the earlier generation, but weaker results among younger Millennial women dragged that median number down.

Researchers often consider grip strength an important indicator of overall health and life expectancy. A large-scale 2015 study of more than 140,000 participants found connections between grip strength and cardiovascular health, including the risk of a heart-related death.
 

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It's because back the. You had to force everything open by hand. Everything in your house was bolt sealed and you had to do that shit with your hands. Everything was knob operated and heavy. Also no power assisted steering or anything. You needed the strength to break a bear's neck just to open the front door
 

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fulltime university students
More like sometime uni students but full-time sit on their arses gamers.

Who knew that playing computer and video games for hours each day didn't result in physically fit people who could crush walnuts in their bare hands?
 
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