{"id":261177,"date":"2016-08-11T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=261177"},"modified":"2016-08-11T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:50:52","slug":"study-finds-modern-man-is-weaker-than-previous-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/study-finds-modern-man-is-weaker-than-previous-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds ‘modern man’ is weaker than previous generations\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think you\u2019d beat your dad in an arm wrestling competition when he was your age? Bad news: he\u2019d probably kick your ass.<\/p>\n

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Men today are weaker than they were 30 years ago, research in the Journal of Hand Therapy<\/em> found.<\/p>\n

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In the study, men aged 20-34 have lower grip and pinch strength \u2013 which measures how strong your hand and upper extremities are \u2013 than the same aged guys did three decades ago.<\/p>\n

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In fact, the average grip strength for men ages 25-29 is nearly 12 kilograms\u00a0lower today than it was before.<\/p>\n

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Your grip may not seem super important unless you\u2019re a competitive arm wrestler, but it actually serves as a good proxy of your overall strength.<\/p>\n

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In fact, a 2011 study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research<\/em> found that grip strength was predictive of strength in push-ups, leg extensions and leg press.<\/p>\n

Read more: A New Study Finds That Men Are Weaker Today Than They Were 30 Years Ago – Men’s Health<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Think you\u2019d beat your dad in an arm wrestling competition when he was your age? Bad news: he\u2019d probably kick your ass.   Men today are weaker than they were 30 years ago, research in the Journal of Hand Therapy found.   In the study, men aged 20-34 have lower grip and pinch strength \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}