Strength & Durability
VALD DynaMo — Grip Strength
The quickest test we run, and one of the most revealing.
Explainer video coming soon
We're filming Grip Strength in the lab.What it is
A handheld dynamometer with a dedicated grip attachment measures maximal grip force in each hand, sampling at 225 Hz with 1-newton resolution. The same device measures isometric strength and range of motion at essentially every major joint, so a shoulder, hip or ankle can be tested in the same sitting.
Why it matters
Grip is the cheapest window into whole-body strength we have, and in sport it is the thing itself — hand fighting on the line, ball security through contact, control in a wrestling tie-up, the last inch of a bat or a bar. It is also where left-to-right differences show up plainly. A meaningful gap between hands is worth understanding before it becomes a compensation somewhere else.
What to expect
Squeeze as hard as you can for a few seconds, each hand, a couple of trials. Under a minute in total. Results appear live and save straight to the athlete's profile, so every re-test compares against their own history rather than a chart on a wall.
A hard number for strength that takes seconds to collect, catches a side-to-side imbalance early, and is sensitive enough to show whether a training block actually moved anything.