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Ferocious Fingertips!
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Intro 1
Chapter 1 - All About the Fingertips! 3
Chapter 2 - Martial Arts and Fingertips! 6
Chapter 3 - Training the Extensor Muscles! 12
Chapter 4 - Training the Flexor Muscles! 15

NOTE: The other Chapters are ONLY available in the Complete
Course itself!
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Dear fellow physical culturists and strength enthousiasts, welcome to the Ferocious
Fingertips course! In this course I will teach and explain to you WHY you should be training
your fingertips to the utmost maximum and with the best effort that you got in yourself, and
what the benefits will be in your overal pound for pound bodyweight strength and efficiency
because of it in the longrun.
Everyone knows who the Shaolin Monks are, or at least heard of their ferocious and
legendary feats of inhuman strength, conditioning, endurance, power and toughness! Well,
since youve purchased this course for yourself (very good move by the way!), I gather that
youre already very familiar with the Shaolin Monks and have even tried to train like them
one time or another in your training journey
If thats the case, then Ive got very good and awesome news for you my friend, because
THIS is the course for training and developing the same exact ferocious and legendary strong
fingertips that the Shaolin Monks have developed over hard, dilligent and brutal years of
training in the Shaolin Temple!
Better believe it, you WILL develop fingertips so ferociously and insanely strong, that
everyone around you will consider your hands to be lethal and dangerous weapons of mass
destruction! And whats even better then that, is that you will suprise yourself big time with
the amount of super strength that youll develop in your fingertips. Believe me, I know from
personal experience! I was literally shocked and flabbergasted about how much stronger,
tougher, healthier, powerfull, resilient and enduring my fingers, and thus my fingertips had
become by training them ferociously and intensively!
I say that I was literally shocked and flabbergasted by it, because I noticed these incredible
results in less then a month, I kid you not the exercises and progressions steps contained in
this course are very powerful, effective, proficient and efficient as well. This is the blueprint
for developing truly insane, legendary, next level and Ferocious Fingertips!
Now before we go into the exercises themselves and the progressions you must master before
reaching the ultimate strength, power and mastery of the fingertips, I would like to dive
deeper into the history, the why and the how of developing Ferocious Fingertips! Dont worry
though, I wont bore you to death with endless pages before you even get to the exercises
themselves, instead I want to talk about the most important and crucial information that you
simply MUST know in order to benefit the most and best from this course!
So without further adue, lets dive into the next chapter without any hesitation or delay! I
know that all of you want to start on the exercises and own the living shit out of them, which
all of you will! With this course you can only succeed, theres no other option comrades! And
thats a guarentee Ill make to you right now, or youll get all of your money back that you
paid for this course in a heartbeat.
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The last thing that I want to mention over here is that this one-of-a-kind Course is NOT a
Get Super Strong and Ripped to Shreds in 6 weeks kind of BS course! Instead, this is a
course about developing super strong and Ferocious Fingertips untill the end of your days!
Which basically means that you can use it, train with it, progress with it, have fun with it and
benefit from it untill youre very last day on this planet! Now how does that sound? Cool and
awesome?! I know comrade, it truly is!
Here we go, lets dive into the first chapter!







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CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1

Lets look at the grip and lets break it down into several components and find out WHY the
fingertips are the TRUE missing link in the missing link itself! With the missing link itself
being the grip obviously, your two hands that is.
It truly is a lost treassure in the training & physical culture world, the major importance of the
fingerTIPS that is, how many times have you heard or read very knowledgeable and
established strongmen and grip competitors talk about training the fingertips very ferociously
and intensively?! How many have you heard or read about saying how THAT is the key to
unlocking the utmost maximum raw strength out of your grip itself?! How many have you
heard or read that talked about taking your grip itself a.k.a your hands to the next level when
you train your fingertips hard and brutal as hell?!
Yeah, Im not going to lie, there are some out there that do mention the fingertips and the
major importance of training the fingertips, although they mention the fingers as a whole, thus
NOT focusing on the fingertips themselves. And this right here, is the biggest mistake they
could ever make - period, yet almost all of them do, Im not going to name any names over
here, simply to not start any fight or miscommunication.
But what I am saying is that even the strongest of the strongest grip competitors out there that
train their grip intensively, full force and fanatically, do not talk very much, very deep or very
extensively about training the fingertips in particular! And that my friend, is just a simple fact.
Believe me, Ive been searching and looking all over the internet, I looked into all the work
and courses of the oldetime strongmen of years gone, and into the work and courses of the
modern time strongmen as well.
And guess what? Except for the Shaolin Monks, Adam T. Glass, Brooks Kubik, John
Brookfield, Logan Christopher, Bud Jeffries and Bruce Lee, whom have certainly
mentioned and talked about the major importance of training the fingertips, however, none of
them except for Logan Christopher who has done a Bonus DVD on Ferocious Forearms and
Fingers, have ever written a course or put out a product solely about developing Ferocious
Fingertips to a very large and major extend. I didnt find anything on Ferocious Fingertips and
how to develop and train for them out there specifically in great depth. Now thats not to
disrespect any of these physical culturists and strongmen, as I have major and great respect
for all of them, dead or alive. But its just a simple fact.



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And thats when it hit me and when my eyes suddenly opened up even more and I got
goosebumps all over my body! Indeed, I knew I had stumbled upon a lost treassure of training
& physical culture, and thats an understatement. And when this idea hit me like a
sledgehammer, I screamed EUREKA! Im going to make this product/course a reality and by
doing so, Im going to propell and help other like-minded strongmen & physical culturists out
there to become a whole lot stronger a whole lot faster, and with a whole lot of insane carry
over into other grip intensive training as well!
Like I mentioned earlier, this is a lost treassure in the physical culture world, and thus it must
be exposed and breathed NEW life into it. Thats the whole point and ultimate goal with this
one-of-a-kind course about developing Ferocious Fingertips strength. Im sure that after I
release this product, a whole lot more are going to follow in my footsteps, but untill then, I
plan to put the product out as the first man in this physical culture realm, and of course Im
doing it to help all of you out there who are interested in building true ferocious and legendary
fingertips strength. And to build that kind of ferocious and legendary fingertips strength, you
MUST have the information, exercises, progressions and training to develop that ferocious
and legendary fingertips strength!
Now obviously Im not claiming to have discovered this as the first dude in the physical
culture realm or to have invented it. No, not at all comrades, dont get it twisted!
What I am saying however, is that I re-discovered it and will be the first physical culturist and
strongmen out there that will put out a product about training the fingertips in particular. Im
not re-inventing the wheel or anything like that, Its just that I re-introduce it to the training
and physical culture world once again.
Ive dug deep and found the lost treassure of very valuable training information, and Im
returning it to the physical culture world and putting the phenomenal and exciting word out!
Indeed I will, and so it is! Be prepared to experience supreme excellence, finesse and
awesomeness in your fingertips training journey, comrades!
With the Ferocious Fingertips intensive exercises, you will get there and then some -
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Like I mentioned earlier on, the Shaolin Monks were ferociously and legendary strong in the
ancient times, and they still are ferociously and legendary strong in the modern day times.
And their fingerTIPS strength is actually what made them so incredible and phenomenally
strong in the first place when it comes down to their pure physical training and powers!
Yeah, they also do a ton of hand and body toughening/iron palm and iron body training! But
that kinda training is to toughen and harden the body for impact and striking, in other words:
The sole purpose of hand and body toughening/iron palm and iron body training is to make
the hands and basically the whole body so insanely tough and resilient, that it can easily
withstand deadly attacks from their opponent, break and smash through concrete walls and
bricks and eventually can damage an opponent so freaking bad, that they could easily kill with
one blow of their mighty fist or feet! Thats the sole purpose of hand and body toughening
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But next to the hand toughening exercises that they do, they ALSO must do hand
strengthening exercises to the maximum. Because if they only did hand toughening exercises
without the physical strengthening exercises themselves on top, then they would leave huge
gaps in their training and thus in their total body strength and power on a pound for pound
basis in the longrun. Besides, doing hand toughening specific exercises wont have any use or
be any good without the hard physical training and the super ferocious strength that is
attached to it! In other words: In order for every Shaolin Monk to become the most
ferociously strongest and toughest he can become, he NEEDS to train his hands and thus his
fingertips to the fullest and maximum with physical exercises as well! Theres no way around
it.
And you guessed it by now, the Shaolin Monks Train their fingertips ferociously and insanely
hard to develop that deadly and lethal grip strength, that can literally smash through walls,
break concrete bricks and can support the whole body easily on 1 or 2 fingers of each hand.
As a matter of fact, the ultimate Shaolin Kungfu grip strengthening exercises out there are the
Simple fingertips pushups, fingertips handstand pushups, fingertips pullups, fingertips
N-L-V-sit hold and the fingertips gymnastic bridge hold! Thats basically the foundation
and backbone of the whole Shaolin Kungfu intensive fingertips/grip training exercises!
And make no mistake about it, these 5 exercises can Make your fingertips extremely
powerfull, strong, ferocious, deadly and lethal! I know, I have trained them myself in this
exact same manner and keep on training them in this exact same manner! Training your
fingers, and thus your fingertips in this exact same manner will make your other grip training
and even regular training (where you use your hands a lot!) go up and improve big time as
well.
This is a guarentee from me to you comrade! Let me use myself as an prime example over
here for a moment. Since Ive been training my fingertips intensively, ferociously and
brutally, Ive seen everything in my training go up like crazy! For example: my card tearing,
unbraced steel bending and phonebook ripping powers have gone through the roof once I
started to focus on these extreme and intensively fingertips exercises.
My pullups, handstand pushups and pushups numbers have gone through the roof as well!
Simply by training the weakest link in the weakest link of the body. Which are the fingertips
of course! Since the hands are the weakest link in the body, its obvious that the fingertips
themselves are the weakest links in the hands themselves! Just think about it for a second: you
use your hands in every exercise that you do when you pull or push yourself up or away! In
other words: your hands are always doing some kind of work when you train. And often times
its a LOT of work, and very tough and brutal work at that! So it would be a damn good and
wise idea to strengthen the hands and thus your grip to the utmost maximum, now wouldnt
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And the BEST way to go about all of this, is by starting to train your fingerTIPS to the utmost
maximum and with the greatest effort you can possibly put in. Just like the Shaolin Monks
have done and still are doing, just like the legendary Bruce Lee has done in his lifetime, just
like I have done in the past since a couple of months and still am doing to this very day, and
just like ALL the other martial artists out there that want to develop the most lethal, ferocious,
deadly and strongest grip that they can! And training the fingertips WILL get you there fast
and furious and then some!
Its safe to say that youre in good hands (pun intended!) when it comes down to training your
fingertips! And its even better and will benefit you a lot more when youre practicing
anykind of martial arts! It doesnt have to be Shaolin Kungfu perse, it can be anykind of
martial arts out there. As all martial arts fighting styles out there require a large and extensive
amounts of physical training and preparation.
Just take a look at every martial arts fighting style out there, and look at their training and
physical preparations BEFORE they get into the serious conditioning, techniques, skill and
stances.
Take for example the most well-known and recognized martial arts styles from Japan,
Indonesia, Korea, China and Brazil (I already mentioned Shaolin Kungfu, so I wont
mentioned it as an example for now).
For Japan Ill take Karate, for Indonesia Ill take Pencak Silat, for Korea Ill take Hapkido
and for Brazil Ill take Brazilian Jiujitsu. No matter the differences in fighting styles,
techniques, skills and stances. They ALL have one thing in common, and that is the physical
preparation training that they require their students to go through!
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It always boils down to the basics and the foundation of every martial arts fighting style out
there, and that is that you gotta have very strong, resilient and powerfull fingers and thus
fingertips, which then obviously leads to a stronger, healthier and more developed GRIP and
hand strength in the end, which is a very big plus! Because if you dont have super strong
hands and grip strength to begin with in the martial arts, then you have no business in doing
any hard sparring or competing in any serious martial arts tournament.

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And If you do compete in a serious martial arts tournament with a weak or average grip, then
youll LOSE and be defeated very easily and fast. And if youre lucky enough to make it past
the first couple of rounds, then sooner or later you WILL encounter a very strong opponent
with a ferociously strong and lethal grip. And when that happens, you can kiss your ass
goodbye, and youll be sh*t out of luck for the rest of the tournament and youll definitely
lose big time and get your butt kicked.
But it doesnt have to be this way, and as a matter of fact, I dont want it to be this way for
anyone whos reading this course right now! Its very simple my friend: train your grip and
hand strength ferociously hard and intense and focus on training your fingertips to a very large
extend, and youll develop a grip so damn strong, that it will literally frighten and scare your
opponent when you get a hold of them, when you punch them or when you hold them down in
a submission hold on the ground.
As you can see, training the weakest link in your weakest link (the fingertips), will give you a
very huge advantage and enormous chances to win every tournament and competition that
youll enter in the future!
But even if you arent interested at all in entering a martial arts tournament or competition in
the future, and just want to become super strong and develop a ferociously strong grip to
protect yourself and your loved ones from outside terror and fights. Then Ive got you covered
as well comrade. You gotta understand that training your fingertips can and will come in
handy in every life-threathening and dangerous situation you might encounter in the world
that we live in nowadays.
If you train your fingertips to the utmost maximum and make them do damn strong, that you
can easily rip thick phonebooks, tear through complete decks of cards, bend, twist and break
steel with ease, then youll possess a grip considered super deadly and dangerous as hell, that
any idiot outside that decides to attack you, would have wished that he hadnt!
Having fingertips and grip strength this powerful will literally scare away and frighten people
that want to do you harm. So you see, wether its in the ring, on the mat, in a cage or outside
in the REAL world with real life-threathening and dangerous situations, Ive got you covered!
Like I said before, training your fingertips with the exercises contained in this course will
make you better, more ferocious and dangerous in all of these situations, and that is a
guarentee Ill make you right here and right now.
So as you can see and have noticed by now, martial arts and fingertips are INseperetable from
eachother, and they will always be connected with eachother in the very deep sense of the
word! Just look at the above mentioned examples I gave you! Wether its in the ring, on the
mat, in the cage or in a real-life threathening situation on the streets.
When you look at it from a point of view of self-defense, then its all considered martial arts.
The first 2 are just for competitiveness, fun and excitement, while the other one is for dead-
serious situations when you never mess around whatsoever. But all-in all, theyre all
considered martial arts and require ferocious and legendary fingertips strength all the way!
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Ah yes, the extensor muscles! What are they and why do you NEED to train them to the
utmost maximum? For the uninitiated that are brand new to this whole idea of training the
fingertips let me explain it to you in further details!
The extensor muscles are the muscles on the top of your forearm, and they are the exact
opposites of the flexor muscles, which are the muscles on the bottom of your forearm/the
belly of your forearm.
The flexor muscles, in contrast to the extensor muscles, get a lot more work and training then
their counterpart. Just take the regular and average exercises out there, and Im talking of
course about functional exercises, not those commercial gym machines and pink dumbbells
crap. Lets take a look at the deadlift, the pullup, the row, the snatch, the handstand
pushup and the regular pushup!
Now although both the handstand pushups and the regular pushups have a great extensor
developing qualities to them, theyre still not on the level of their fingertips counterparts!
With that being said, in my opinion the handstand pushups and regular pushups are neither
complete extensor developing exercises nor complete flexor developing exercises. Theyre
somewhere in between.
You see, true extensors exercises are the ones that open your hand up and thus EXTEND your
fingers open! Thus both the handstand pushups and regular pushups do not possess this
quality to the fullest. Theyre both phenomenally good and effective exercises, No doubt
about that. But theyre not completely extensor bodyweight exercises in my book.
And now that weve gotten that out of the way, lets look at the other 3 exercises that I
mentioned over there: The pullup, the row and the snatch! Now the row and the snatch can be
done with either the barbell, dumbbell or the kettlebell, it doesnt really matter to me. If you
notice and pay attention to those exercises, then youll quickly see that all 3 of these exercises
are done with the hands closed and the fingers curled in towards the palm of the hand, and
thus making them flexion exercises.
So to re-cap very quick before Ill continue, extensors exercises are exercises where the
fingers are wide open, and the flexion exercises are exercises where the fingers are closed or
almost closed. Now why should you be concerned with the knowledge of the extensor
exercises and how can this help you in your training with these Fingertips specific exercises?
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Because understanding this whole concept about the extensors, will allow you to develop a
grip that will not only be a whole lot stronger in the longrun, but will also make your hands
healthier, keep them healthier in the future and give them an all-around and complete
developement as well, with NO weak areas whatsoever!
But the most important and crucial aspects of training your fingertips intensively and
ferociously with the extensor exercises in this course, is that it will prevent imbalances and
thus injuries in the longrun! And as a matter of fact, Im not the only one whos of a great and
major opinion that this is true and should be avoided like the plague.
If youve purchased and read Convict Conditioning 2 by Paul Wade, then youve probably
read the whole section about fingertips pushups and the how and why theyre your BEST and
strongest weapon against imbalances and injuries! Its well worth the read, and since I own
the Convict Conditioning 2 book myself, Ill paraphrase that part below in this chapter! Take
good notes of what Paul Wade has to say about injury prevention and imbalances of the grip
and hands through fingertips intensive training.
Building superhuman gripping muscles without simultaneaously strengthening the
antagonistic (opposite) muscles is asking for troube.
There are several reasons why you should balance out a grip-based forearm program with
some work for the extensors (the muscles which straighten the fingers). The first reason is
completeness. Your hands are meant to open as well as close. If you want strong hands, you
should train them open, not just closed (as in a grip). This works not only the extensors, but
also all the small, neglected tissues and tendons on the backs of the hands and around the
knuckles.

Another reason has to do with maximizing potential. Never forget that the muscular system
is a balanced entity. If you train one side of a limb without training the opposite side, the
side you are training can never truly reach its maximum potential. If any machine has a
weak link, the entire capacity of the machine is affected negatively. Guys who only train
their finger flexors (by grip work) and neglect the extensors will, ironically, never have a
grip as strong as a man whose hands are developed on both sides.

But perhaps the biggest reason to balance out grip work with extensor work is injury
prevention - what the kids today call prehab. Working just one side of your forearms will
make your strength unsymmetrical and give you greater potential for injury. Having a
hugely developed grip when the back of your hand is weak is a bit like driving a car thats
made half from steel, half from timber. When you put your foot to the floor, the thing will
tear itself apart. The weaker half just cant keep up with the stronger half. This is what an
unbalanced muscular system is like. Its a recipe for a constant stream of injuries.

There are numerous devices (cables and machines) designed to work the open hands, and
most of them are complete crap. Nothing built by man has ever improved on the ancient
classic fingertip pushup. Fingertip pushups force an athlete to keep the hands open and
fingers extended in a natural position under high levels of fluctuating pressure. This not
only protects and strengthens the connective tissues, it also increases hand power very
efficiently. Fingertip pushups are easy to learn, they can be done progressively, and they
require zero equipment!
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So there you have it my friends, thats about it in a nutshell. Training the fingertips in this
exact same manner will build tremendous and insane total, all-around and complete hand
strength, and it will make the hands healthier, more resilient and injury proof in the longrun as
well! What more can you ask for?

But having said all of that, you gotta make sure that you do NOT jump into this Ferocious
Fingertips type training cold turkey! In other words: dont just go from zero to 88 miles per
hour. No, instead warm-up slowely and loosen up the joints, tendons, ligaments, soft tissues,
connective tissues and joints in your fingers first! Remember, there are NO muscles in the
fingers themselves - none! Except for the tendons, ligaments, soft tissues, connective tissues
and joints, there are only the bones next to the protective mechanisms around the fingers,
thats it! So Ill wrap up this chapter with saying these wise words:

Train those extensor fingertips exercises fanatically, ferociously and intensively! And
protect your fingers and hands from injury and imbalances like your life depends on it!
Because although your life will not be depending on it whatsoever, your hands in the
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Now that weve touched on and covered the extensor muscles (which are overlooked way too
many times nowadays, even by elite trainees and athletes). Lets look at the exact opposite
muscles on the forearms, the flexor muscles! Yes, these flexor muscles are responsible for the
great bulk and mass on the forearm. But nontheless, without the extensors in the picture, all of
this bulk and mass doesnt mean jack shit. And as a matter of fact, the more ferocious and
intense you train your extensor muscles together with your flexor muscles, the bigger your
forearms will get and the more mass theyll have as well.
Neglect either one of these, and the results will not even come close to what it could have
been if you did train your extensor and flexor muscles together! And lets not forget the
resilience, supreme health, muscle control and overal developement youll get in the longrun
by taking this route in your own training, and especially the fingertips training that youll do!
I wont need to go into much more details about the flexor muscles for now, simply because
you already know that theyre basically the exact opposite of the extensor muscles. And thus
their sole purpose is to close the hands into a fist and curl the fingers inwards, rather then
spreading them outwards like they would need to do for the extensor muscles.
This is very important to know and understand completely before you even think about
training your fingertips ferociously and to the fullest! Why? Very simple, because youll
perform both extensor intensive fingertips exercises and flexor intensive fingertips exercises!
Interesting enough though, is that ALL the pushing exercises of the fingertips specific
exercises are extensor intensive, and ALL the pulling exercises of the fingertips specific
exercises are flexor intensive.
If you can remember this simple rule of thumb, then youll know exactly how to take care of
your total and incredible grip strength that youll develop in the future. Plus youll know how
to train your grip ferociously effective while keeping the injuries, imbalances and set-backs at
bay and away - for good!
Let me give you a personal example of myself over here: I actually trained and have been
training my extensor muscles, and thus my fingertips PUSHING exercises alot more and
longer then my flexor fingertips exercises. What I found out since a couple of months though,
is that by making the huge and idiotic mistake of not training the flexor fingertips pulling
exercises to the fullest and on the same level as the extensor fingertips pushing exercises, I
had left an enormous gap and space in my own fingertips training, and thus in my overall
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These kind of mistakes are too dumb and stupid to make, and should be avoided like the
plague. Unfortunately for me, it took me a couple of months to fully and completely realize
all of this. But like the old saying goes: you learn from your mistakes, and I dont want any of
you to go through the same mistakes as Ive been through with the flexor fingertips exercises.
Hell no, you should strive to do it good and follow a complete and all-around fingertips
specific training from the start!
And know that with this kind of approach to your fingertips specific training, theres no need
for extra extensor work or flexor work on the side! I would advice you however, to add in the
resistance rubber bands exercise where you open up your fingers against a resistance rubber
band. Now you can do it for repetitions or do isometric holds with them. Theyre both legit
and very good. But this exercise is considered an mobility, health, longevity, blood flow,
dexterity and muscle control promoting drill. And thus its NOT considered a hardcore pure,
raw and brute strength exercise like the fingertips handstand pushup for example.
This exercise is a great one for developing muscle control, promoting blood flow, health and
longevity, dexterity and muscle control in your hands. As a matter of fact, its one of the
major 3 mobility exercises that I perform on a daily basis to keep my hands even more
healthy, loose, limber and resilient. I have to, in order to keep on training the fingertips, and
thus the grip so intensively, ferociously and hardcore on a daily basis. But Ill get into these
mobility specific and intensive drills in chapter 6 of this course.
And Ide like to wrap up this very important and crucial chapter with the words of Paul
Coach Wade once again, Hell give you his 2 cents about all of this! And as you will notice,
he thinks about all of this and sees the importance of all of this as much as I do. When it
comes down to training both the extensor and flexor muscles on the forearm in perfect and
flawless harmony, were on the same page!
Hanging grip work (flexor pulling exercise) produces noticeable results, fast - and these
results come not just over the short-term, but for long periods. The muscles that control the
hands are capable of ferocious strength, and it can take an entire career to unlock this full
potential. Many of the old school strongmen used to claim that hand strength was the last
thing to go, and I well believe it.

Hanging grip work is so effective at developing strength in the muscles and tendons that
close the fingers, that there may be a minor risk that these areas become disproportionately
strong in comparison to their antagonists - the muscles which keep the fingers open. These
extensor muscles are relatively small in comparison to the muscles which control the grip
(the flexor muscles), but in the interests of balanced strength and hand health, they need to
be trained by any athlete who is looking to seriously strengthen their hands.

I only advice one type of training for the finger extensors: fingertip pushups. Fingertip
pushups radically increase strength in the extensor muscles, as well as the hands and
wrists, because they force you to support your weight on your digits. This pressure
strengthens not only muscles and tendons in the hands but also the cartilage, and even the
bones, of the fingers and thumbs. If you cant yet perform classic fingertip pushups, dont
panic. Ill show you how to achieve this ability gradually.
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There you have it; the basic Convict Conditioning approach to working the hands and
forearms. Focus on hanging work to build lower arm strength, and balance this strength
out with a course of fingertip pushups. Two exercises are all you need.

Now although I completely agree with Paul Wade over here, I am of an even greater and
ferocious opinion that you need MORE exercises then just 2 for developing the entire grip,
and thus complete and total hand strength! In my humble opinion, there should be at least 5
exercises on both the pushing fingertips exercises (extensor muscles), and the pulling
fingertips exercises (flexor muscles). I say this and am of an strong opinion about this,
because you should train your body and your grip in the toughest, difficult and most akward
positions while using your fingertips to the maximum and utmost limits. So it would be wise,
for the sake of total and complete developement in both the grip and total body, to perform
these fingertips exercises extensively and ferociously with a couple more exercises on both
sides!

You can consider this course the NEXT level and up a couple more notches when it comes
down to grip specific exercises from the Convict Conditioning 2 course by Paul Wade! It truly
is the next level and then some once you see, train and progress with the exercises in this
course! Just wait untill youre going full force at it with all your might! Youll soon start to
realize how this is truly in the top-end range of training the fingertips, and thus your total grip
and hand strength.

OK, now that weve got the extensor and flexor muscles covered in major details and why
you should pay attention to both, its time to look at the incredible benefits the fingertips
specific exercises can and will bring with them in the longrun. In the next chapter were going
to dive deep into the other areas of training and how they will ALL become stronger once you
start to train your fingertips with supreme effort and seriousness.
So without further adue, lets get down to business

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More to come very soon Stay tuned!