Finger Strength Reddit Train for finger strength and the tendons take care of themselves, Can dead hang for 4 minutes just using fingers, but grip strength is weak? I've had relatively weak grip strength all my life, So technique starts with finger strength right? First I’m thinking that, as any climber climb with his own body weight as a base, then finger strength development should be in relation to that, and therefore the heavier you are the more strength you will gain? ( I’m talking more of finger strength based on the muscle activation, like any kind of crimps, unlike drags that would rely more on passive structure), Not 100% on that though, I think the idea is that if your forearms / finger strength is failing while bouldering, that means that bouldering is more than enough to gain strength in those regions, All my fingers tweaks are gone after 6 workouts, It's bodyweight only, so you only need a bucket and some rice or, when more resistence is needed, sand, Good article, The point is to train joints and tissues around our forearms like the wrists gradually to increase their strength, You are limited by poor technique which puts a lot more load on your fingers than is necessary, ex shoulder stability or just technique under the fingerboard, " I know tendons and ligaments can be developed through exposure, training and time, but if our fingers are Any decent training book (Horst, Neumann, Hague) will have recommendations for finger strength exercises that actually work, but almost all of them require a hangboard or a climbing wall, Explore effective techniques and exercises on how to strengthen your fingers for martial arts and hear insights from Reddit users on their preferred methods, Now I'm unsure what to do should I just keep going or is that risking injury, Eventually over time the tendon strength will build to a level where it’s safe to use hang boards to improve finger strength, My right hand got 48kg on a hand dynamometer which is an accurate measurement of my grip strength, This would result in increased muscle mass, which sounds great, but for a climber isometric strength gained from increased connective tissue throughout the forearm is preferable, which is gained from static holds, I grew up playing a lot of tennis so my right hand/forearm are much bigger and stronger than my left side, g, The progress has been somewhat miraculous and I went on weighted hangs from 16 kg added to 45 kg in about 12 weeks, Finger strength I’ve been indoor climbing about once a week for 5 months now and seem to be struggling a lot with finger strength, :) Reply reply More replies headcoat2013 • The hardest finger to do for me is the ring finger but with practice it gets easier to do, As this is 100% right i have focused on improving technique in the past year and made a lot of gains there but here comes the question, I recently got turned onto using the tindeq and further more into trying out maximal concentric finger curls with a block… Not sure if this is hypermobility related or not but idk where else to ask as that’s my only physical diagnosis, so Anyone have random episodes of weakness in the hands/total loss of the ability to grip for a while? I was under the impression that this was just a normal human experience up until last night, It takes between 1 and 2 years to build enough finger strength to not injure them while climbing a lot and hard, 4 lbs of force for the red bands, once you outgrow the red bands you can double up or use a red and another band color to increase the resistance, It happened and didn’t go away for like 10-15 minutes and I got concerned so I If you are moderately new to climbing and your finger-, pull- and body strengths are equally good or bad, Jars aren't really about finger strength, they're about wrist, chest, and good technique, New comments cannot be posted, Finger strength is weird, This will benefit your lifting abilities because it targets all the small forearm and hand muscles that you don't usually use when lifting a bar (e, Left hand got 42, 40 votes, 48 comments, From what I've seen of weightlifting things, the general consensus is that low intensity, high reps is better for tendon strength, Hangboarding only trains force in one direction, while climbing require three dimensional strength, even on crimps, I'm not surprised at all, I saw more gains in crimp strength from incorporating recruitment pulls into my warmup than from intense, structured Hangboard training, lumbricals Half-Crimp , 3 finger drag , full-crimp and pinch, Dec 17, 2024 · Ignoring the other requirements for finger-tip handstands (technique, adjusting your balance with your fingertips and obviously the other strength/balance requirements for a handstand etc) if i can already support 100% of my bodyweight in an L-sit would I in theory already have the required finger strength for a fingertip handstand? 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