1st, get a bowl of some sort, and fill it up with some rice. Then put both your hands inside the bottom of the bowl of rice. Then for about a long time (half-hour), start squeezing the rice with your fingers, like your opening your hands and closing them like your making a fist. You don't have to use rice, you can use sand or if your really hardcore, you can use crushed ice. Wet sand at the beach is good to. Did I spell excersize right?... o well.
hahaha, i've never quite heard of such a thing! i assume when you say rice you mean rice that's already been cooked? preferably steamed rice i'm guessing.. sounds like a similar thing to those wrist strengtheners you sometimes see around
it's a tough exercise. we used to do it in kung-fu practice, sometimes with raw rice, and as we progressed with bowls of small bearings. the exercise was different in that we included a thrust to penetrate the rice, then spread the fingers then squeeze. talk about bleeding fingers. of course, this was before the days of AIDs and "train 'til you bleed" was a rite of passage...
also a good exercise: take a stack of newspapers and using your racket hand, crumple each sheet up one by one. great way to do recycling!
interesting method. the rice approach is unique in that it trains the closing and well and opening of the fingers. but i wonder if strengthening the opening muscles is useful or not in badminton... and heck, don't even try to recycle those rice after you are done...
You could use a stress ball, it would do two things: (i) It would help with finger strength because of the squeezing motion (ii) It would strengthen the forearm muscles
sounds like an interesting idea, half an hour before squeezing ?i'm pretty impatient on the talk about a stress ball, i heard a tennis ball gives you the same effect
You can squeeze a tennis ball? Wooow.... I am impressed. Maybe one day you can progress to golf ball. Not for me. I would probably go for a squash ball.
I used to think squeezing rice was nothing much. But until it BLEEDS? How does it make your hand bleed? The stress ball method is kind of fun, considering you're trying to release your stress and not trying to work muscles.
Not the squeezing, but the thrusting into the rice with a spear hand. You know, like in the movies where some kung-fu guy takes his hand and thrusts it into his foe and pulls out his innards...
the til-it-bleeds mentality does seem excessive. I'm guessing the blood comes from the skin being pierced by the rice shards if you are using long rice. I guess you could wear gloves. But that's gotta be counter productive. There is such a thing as excessive excerise, which is far more harmful than improper or inconsistent exercise. Maybe that's why some people become "better" when they take a break. It allows their abused bodies to fully recover, so that muscles are more flexible and attuned, thereby giving better accuracy and strength. Recovery probably only needs to be a week or so of nothing but very mild exercise.
How come you can actually build muscles just by doing that? You must squeeze the rice for about how long in order to get results?
Squeezing rice for exercise? How about gravel? I had the chance to exercise my hands in the method mentioned by Odjn and Badrad. Instead of rice, I had to rigourously rinse out the dye in the gravel I bought for my new aquarium... repeatedly. Let me tell ya, after I was done, I couldn't even feel my hands for awhile.
ONe thing i think i forgot to mention. You need A LOT of rice!!! The deeper you put your hands into the rice, the better your workout you get for your fingers. BTW, you shouldn't be squeezing the rice with your hands, but with your fingers.
i have something like this rice thing at my dorm, except it works your entire arm. so as you can imagine it's a big bucket of rice. you sit down and bend over with the bucket of rice in front of you. and you stick your whole arm in as deep as you can. and you pronate and supinate. it has helped a lot with my strength of my shots.
