{"id":737240,"date":"2023-06-12T05:31:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=737240"},"modified":"2023-06-12T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T07:37:14","slug":"its-been-called-a-vitality-meter-what-your-grip-says-about-your-health-and-how-you-can-improve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/fitness\/its-been-called-a-vitality-meter-what-your-grip-says-about-your-health-and-how-you-can-improve-it","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s been called a vitality meter!&#8217; What your grip says about your health &#8211; and how you can improve it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How good is your grip? It&#8217;s not just a convincing handshake &#8211; or your ability to twist the lid off the jam &#8211; that&#8217;s at stake, if yours is feeble. &#8220;Good grip is integral to so many sports,&#8221; says Gareth Cole, head of performance at Coach London. &#8220;Whenever you need to hold on to an object, apply force to an object, pull yourself towards something or pull something towards yourself, you are recruiting the muscles in the forearm and hand that facilitate grip. Poor grip can also be the weakest link when you are lifting heavy weights.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How good is your grip? It&#8217;s not just a convincing handshake &#8211; or your ability to twist the lid off the jam &#8211; that&#8217;s at stake, if yours is feeble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}