billkilpatrick
Aug-06-2005, 12:07pm
i assume i'm talking to people who understand obsession and have long since ceased to be amazed at how tiny the tiny details can get.
somewhere on the message board i read that rubber bands placed around two or three of the fingers of the left hand (assuming you use the left hand to make the notes) will help to strengthen the little finger as it reaches for those places where it normally doesn't want to go.
this works but i found that in my case it was the ring finger that was the weaker of the four - it simply followed the little finger where ever it went and lent it some feeble, back up pressure. the rubber band was exercising the first and middle fingers instead of it.
in addition to the rubber band i found a clothes pin works very well for any of the fingers you want to beef up - simply by gripping the pin between it and the thumb and squeezing.
another exercise that zeroed in on the weakest finger was done by placing the tips of the extended fingers on something like a table top or steering wheel and lifting it up and rearing it back as far as it will go. trying to keep it off the table as i walked my hand around was a challenge as well - i was amazed at how little strength my ring finger had to do this and how uncoordinated it was in relation to the others.
of course the best possible way to exercise the fingers is to play but on those occasions when you can't, you can cause a gratifying level of consternation amongst those around you simply by walking your hand across the dinner table or up and down the steering wheel or by fiddling too much with a clothes pin.
- bill
somewhere on the message board i read that rubber bands placed around two or three of the fingers of the left hand (assuming you use the left hand to make the notes) will help to strengthen the little finger as it reaches for those places where it normally doesn't want to go.
this works but i found that in my case it was the ring finger that was the weaker of the four - it simply followed the little finger where ever it went and lent it some feeble, back up pressure. the rubber band was exercising the first and middle fingers instead of it.
in addition to the rubber band i found a clothes pin works very well for any of the fingers you want to beef up - simply by gripping the pin between it and the thumb and squeezing.
another exercise that zeroed in on the weakest finger was done by placing the tips of the extended fingers on something like a table top or steering wheel and lifting it up and rearing it back as far as it will go. trying to keep it off the table as i walked my hand around was a challenge as well - i was amazed at how little strength my ring finger had to do this and how uncoordinated it was in relation to the others.
of course the best possible way to exercise the fingers is to play but on those occasions when you can't, you can cause a gratifying level of consternation amongst those around you simply by walking your hand across the dinner table or up and down the steering wheel or by fiddling too much with a clothes pin.
- bill