Lee Hayward: Hello, this is Lee Hayward here from LeeHayward.com. In this quick video clip, I want to show you cool exercise that'll not only help to develop your overall hand forearm strength, but it'll also help preventing injuries and muscle imbalances. If you've been at following you know on videos and stuff like that on YouTube, you know that I'm the big fan of hand gripper training, you know just using heavy grippers and using that to help build up your forearm strength and your grip strength and of course, I've some videos about that. But one little thing that would like to do in addition to training the grip because what happens is very often when you're focusing on grip training, you're focusing at closing your hand and the muscles that involve with gripping and you ignore the muscles that open the hand and the small extensive muscles that run along the forearms that used to open your fingers.
One thing that anytime you create an imbalance where you're not really focusing on both, you know the agonized and anti agonized muscle groups where you're working both sides, you create an imbalance and this is just an invitation for an injury. So, one thing that I like to do is make sure focus on working those smaller muscles that open the fingers. What I have here is just a small rubber band, its prior to a half inch thick, I mean you don't want to get a two smaller rubber band now make it easy, but I put this over my finger tips and over my thumb just like so, and you can use this into train your finger extensors by just opening your fingers against the resistance of the rubber band and there is different variations that you can do with this, I mean you can train all fingers at the same time like I'm doing here or you can just wrap it around say like your thumb and your index finger; train one finger at a time and then do your middle finger and just keep going through all your fingers like that and train them individually. I think you're fine that you know your smaller fingers on so pinky and your ring finger tend to be the weakest.
But again, you can got through and work all those smaller muscles of the finger extensors. This will not only help to improve your overall grip strength, but it will help to prevent injuries as well. Very often, you prior people saying you know they get tedious elbow or golfers elbow, which is basically just tend to know this around the elbow joint and in the forearms. So, by doing exercises like this training your grip with like heavy grippers, to focus on the crushing grip, and then to do smaller exercises like this rubber band extension to focus on opening your hands and finger extensors, you can help to balance this out and help prevent injuries like this, you know tendinitis and little nagging things that could occur with your training. So, give that a try, I mean it's nothing too fancy just get yourself a rubber band and again you can throw this in after your workout so you can even just have one on your desk or in your car or whatever and do it throughout the day as well. It's not something that you really need to plan out your training. So, makes give it a try and just let me know how it works for you.
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