| When I was in school, I remember in my physical | | | | Aside from athletics, hand strength is important for |
| education class one day when we did hand strength | | | | many other purposes. Typing on a keyboard for the |
| testing. We had this little machine that looked like a gun | | | | computer can be very tough on the hands. Ever notice |
| with a gauge on it. I later learned that this machine is | | | | how many people who work in an office play with one |
| called a Hand Dynamometer. The machine worked by | | | | of those stress balls? That is actually a form of doing |
| gripping the trigger as hard as possible to see how | | | | hand strength exercise to relieve the stress put on the |
| strong my hand grip was. This is totally pointless I | | | | hands. Eventually, the hand will become stronger and |
| thought to myself. Who cares about hand grip strength | | | | the need to play with the little squishy ball goes away. |
| anyways? That is what people going through rehab | | | | Guitar players also find comfort in hand grip strength. |
| test, but I am fine. Well, to my surprise, I have learned | | | | Guitar players must grip the neck of the guitar at |
| that hand grip training is more that just a rehab training. | | | | various positions. After playing the guitar for a while, |
| Hand strength is very important for wrestlers. Being | | | | the hands may begin to hurt due to the awkward |
| quick and powerful with their hands is an important | | | | positions and stretches that the hand must make. A |
| strength for a wrestler. With their hand strength, they | | | | good strong hand grip can help guitar players to play |
| can overpower their opponent. This also falls over into | | | | longer without feeling discomfort in the hands. |
| other fighting athletics such as boxing, martial arts, etc. | | | | There are many other uses not mentioned here for |
| For a rock climber, hand strength is also very | | | | hand grip training. It turns out that hand strength is very |
| important. Rock climbers have to continually be gripping | | | | important. There are many exercises available to |
| rocks at places that are not very easy to grip. While | | | | improve hand grip strength. Some can be as easy as |
| upper body strength seems to be the key focus of | | | | playing with stress balls whiles others can be more |
| rock climbers because of the need to pull ones body | | | | difficult, like doing pushups without using the palm of the |
| up, hand strength should not be over looked for | | | | hand. |
| climbing athletics. | | | | |