Having really dry skin does not help with grip.
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I read somewhere that for some reason grip strength is one of the only muscle groups where the Bell curves of male strength vs. female strength has essentially zero overlap. It was something like "the weakest 2% of men have stronger grip strength than 98% of women," or maybe even more extreme. IDK, I can't remember the source and I can't be bothered to look for it on a Saturday morning, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
I hand my rock climber sister in law jars to open all the time lol
You're both in your respective 1%
Well crap. Now I want to train my grip strength.
Here's a source for that claim. I didn't realize the difference was so huge! https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2017/05/04/in-grip-strength-a-woman-in-the-90th-percentile-would-be-at-the-10th-percentile-for-men/
I looked it up. It's pretty interesting! I suggest others Google it as well.
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If women had the same grip strength as men, there'd be a lot more penile injuries in the world.
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It's not quite that dramatic from what I can see, but I wouldn't be surprised if studies have been done that found that distribution.
It's hard to account for social factors inherent in this, too. Like, how do we account for men being more encouraged to develop grip strength muscles than women? Men are much more likely, from young childhood, to be encouraged to perform many different kinds of strenuous physical activity. Women are discouraged from performing those same activities (also from childhood) and are also very heavily pressured towards eating less and being/appearing weaker.
This social influence definitely has a real tangible impact on how people's muscle strength develops. Due to its essentially all-encompassing nature (there's not really any man/woman in society who is entirely free from societal pressure) it's hard to tell to what degree this discrepancy is influenced by external factors instead of biological circumstances. That is, how can we test this accurately when half the participants have been discouraged from building muscle mass and grip strength all their lives?
Testosterone exposure definitely has a real impact, but the idea that the weakest 2% of men have stronger grip strength than 98% of women is doubtful. A study may have been done that had those findings, but I'd question the methodology used and be interested to see what their sample size and demographic makeup were.
The distribution is not that extreme but it's still very skewed. This is one of the areas where the anatomy of men and women seem to really differ.
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Remember ladies, Jars are similar to tars, so simple xvf would be enough
Instructions unclear; rolled the jar into a jarball.
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It's all about that grippy texture. Just put on some rubber dishwashing gloves.
If you have oven mitts with rubber on them, those work too. Mousepads also work in a pinch (do people use mousepads anymore?)
Desk mat gang represent
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Can't get a good grip if you're bone dry either.
Balance.
i cover all my jars in lotion. keeps things challenging and it means i never forget to lotion up
Might also have something to do with having, on average, twice the grip strength... but who knows.
I put a 1/4" layer of moisturizer on my hands before bed and then put gloves on. I can still open jars because of the testosterone.
I put the gloves on first
That... that's not how it works!
That is exactly how it works.
Don't listen to them, they're just a shill for big moisturiser!
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well, I'll have you know that the palms of my hands are very moist
So apparently if you smack it all around the sides of the lid with a spoon or something, you can loosen the vacuum seal.
It sounds fake but it worked the other night on a jar of salsa I was legitimately considering just breaking, and I'm still kinda mad that I never knew that til now.
Hot water on the lid expands it a bit too.
I usually BONK the side of the lid against the table.
I just insert something long and thin (usually a knife) between the lid and the glass rim, then gently lift just until the pressure is released. Probably doesn't cause the lid to mis-shape as much as from bashing it 😅
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Transgender lady here. I have experience on both sides of this.
Testosterone does a lot of interesting things to your body, including making your skin more rough. This includes your fingertips.
Several years after taking HRT, I had problems holding onto things. This wasn’t a matter of grip strength. My fingerprints had lost the pronounced ridging that they used to have. The result was butterfingers; losing grip on anything that wasn’t roughly textured itself. Anything smooth would just fall right out of my hands. And jar lids became suddenly difficult to open.
Yes we do. Only when you're not watching.
Both me (compulsively forgets to moisturize), and my wife (moisturized several times a day with hand, body, face lotions) handle most jars with ease.
What gets both of us is little jars. Extracts, or vanilla. Especially alcohol free vanilla! It’s sticky and sticks to the threads of the lid/jar. Even with wiping it down, it’s a problem.
My solution was to wrap the lids in 2242 Electrical tape. Which really helps with getting a grip on it.
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Maybe men’s palms are just more rough in general? 😄
Kinda makes sense. I work with a lot of things that really dry out your hands throughout the day, so our office has to buy a lot of lotion. We have to buy an expensive silicon based one because the others just leave oily residue on all the tools making everything slippery.
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