5 Easy Exercises That Keep Hands Young and Strong

Hands functions as the essential equipment of our body. Through hands, we can perform our regular activities. It starts in the morning and ends at night while going to bed. We have to do different activities with our hands, including cooking, baking, dusting, cleaning text, type, holding objects, squeezing, writing, and typing. Our hands are multifunctional. But with increasing age, our hands also get older, forearm muscles and finger joints tend to get fragile, and we face weak clenching issues, even sometimes we cannot accomplish the simple task with our hands due to poor gripping strength. Poor gripping strength means low gripping ability. Thus, you won’t be able to open a tight doorknob, open the jar’s lid, or carry grocery bags. It will be a challenging time for you, and you will experience a poor quality of life. But you don’t need to worry about it. Here we will mention five easy but practical exercises to keep your hands more vital and younger as hand strengthening is an integral part of your fitness regime.

Why is it essential to practice hand strengthening exercises?

Keeping them strong and active is essential as both of our hands perform multiple jobs without making us frustrated. It is necessary to keep your hands strong to build sufficient endurance to strain and stress.

Hand strengthening exercise:

• Increase grasp and squeeze strength
• Decrease joint solidness and agony, further develop adaptability
• Develop hand perseverance
• Decrease the risk of injuries
• Advance hand skill and fine motor coordination

You need to keep in mind, on the off chance that you have flexibility issues with your fingers, then, at that point, you need to work on flexibility issues first as you will not strengthen hands with a restricted scope of movement. In any case, by some coincidence, you have complete versatility; these five hand supporting exercises can help you build your grip, further develop hand execution, and reduce the risk of hand wounds.

You have to remember that grip strengthening exercise should not be painful. You may notice your fingers getting tired or somewhat feeling sore, but it is pretty normal. Still, if you are experiencing unbearable pain, you need to slow down or stop hand strengthening activities and immediately ask a doctor. He will diagnose the reason for the pain. A short disclaimer from us, hand exercise is not a substitute for medical attention. These are supportive treatments that speed up the healing process. 

To perform the below-mentioned exercise, you need two pieces of equipment, such as a therapy putty and a thick rubber band. You can even do it with a squeeze ball if you don’t have therapy putty. Therapy putty is generally recommended to gain a moderate level of resistance. It comes in multiple colors; each color signifies a different resistance power.

Putty Grip & Squeeze Exercise

The certified hand therapist recommends therapy clay or therapy putty over a squeeze ball as you can squeeze them entirely through your palm. On the other hand, you cannot use the whole hand while squeezing the ball, and it allows you to strengthen your hands within a limited possibility of movement. Additionally, you can regulate the activity of putty in your grasp, and it helps you improve dexterity level and coordination among all fingers and thumb.

How to do it: Grasp the therapy putty, which will fit into your hand perfectly until all fingertips touch your palm; After that, release and control the putty by clenching and unclenching method. Set your alarm for 2-3 minutes and repeat the process at least ten times.

Thumb Pinch Strengthening Exercise

Thumb is a crucial part of our hands that regulates most hand functionalities. Thus, you must take care of your thumb and work on it to strengthen the thumb pinch. Thumb performs essential pinching activities while opening a water bottle, handbag, or lid. Therapy putty helps you to improve your thumb.

How to do it: Take your therapy putty or therapy clay, roll it out into hot dog shape, use your index finger and thumb to pinch alongside the putty, make pinch alongside the length of the putty. Do it at least ten times; you need to perform it 20 times for a better result. Next, change the pinch type by altering the position of your thumb on top and pinching towards the index finger. Do this again a minimum of ten times. 

Rubber Band Abduction Exercise

Place an elastic rubber over each of the four fingers. Don’t include your thumb. Next, gradually spread your fingers, keeping them apart, hold for 5 seconds, then relax. Repeat 10-20 times.

Rubber Band “C” Thumb Exercise

Place the elastic rubber band over each finger, including your thumb. Here, it would be best if you kept all your fingers together, then opened your thumb out to the “C” position. It should be a thumb up position, hold for 5 seconds, then relax, repeat the whole process 10-12 times.

Isometric Handgrip Exercise

You can perform this exercise with your hand grip. Handgrip strengthening is an isometric exercise performed at a static position without movement. To do this exercise, you need a hand gripper with multiple difficulty levels. If you cross the difficulty level through clenching, you’ll start to develop grip endurance.