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More push-ups

Technique and methods 2 posts Started 13 Mar 2018

PLaine

Original post

Hi all!

Alan has shown us "thumb push up exercise" which I use quite a lot in my own practising and teaching.

Recently I’ve been thinking that how about developing similar exercises for other fingers too, especially 5th and 2nd? If I am right lateral movement of the finger wakes up interossei muscles which are important to work well.

I made a short video of the first idea:

https://youtu.be/LQg6X2toWv4

What do you think?

Jovan

The purpose of the thumb exercise was to separate it from the rest of the hand and make it "self aware". IMO, your exercise works for pinky but not so much for index finger. I think it would be more beneficial for the index finger if the hand was vertical and then you were doing those push-ups. Thoughts?

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