Fingertip Conditioning

There's good reason to condition your fingertips. Planche push ups, handstands, making your fingers more resistant to breaks and possible injury that life so generously provides us fitness lovers with. And really, being able to say you can stand on your fingertips without lying, is pretty cool! I've got some good exercises that helped me out and a few other things I've been learning lately for progression in my fingertip balancing. And I'm more than glad to share these things with you!

The first exercise to start out if you have considerably weak fingertips, is going back to push ups on your knees, and your fingertips. Easy enough? Continue with those for about a week, let things get easy, because if you jump right into things, you can hurt yourself pretty bad to point of causing permanent damage to your hands.

   But bringing your hands to point of withstanding your entire body weight on your finger tips, is pretty incredible and beneficial to your body.

   So where do you begin when conditioning your fingertips for the superb strength you so desire? It's pretty easy, girl push ups. You know, the ones on your knees? It's not hard, and you can have control of the weight being dispersed into your fingertips simply by use of your back muscles if you're not quite there yet.

   You can do half of these exercises if you're not looking to stand on your fingertips but simply strengthen your hands.

   So when you get to the point of regular push ups but on your finger tips, do multiple reps, but not too many to the point of severe discomfort. It will hurt at first because your hands are getting used to your body weight being dispersed in such an unnatural way, but over time they will become stronger, more resistant, and less irritated by the movement and force being exerted into them as natural adaption to what they're being put up to.

   If you can't quite do things like, planches, or fingertip handstands and you're training to get into them, simply enough, you can stick to fingertip push ups, or just sitting on your fingertips in push ups position. Also if you become accustomed to those movements, you can try fingertip tuck planches, and fingertip L sits.

   Now for those of you looking into becoming more advanced with your fingertip balance, I'll offer some ideas and tips from my own experience in this.

   To reduce the amount of fingers you have on the ground with performing a planche or something, simply do the beginning exercises by reducing your finger count. You can easily bring yourself to a tuck planche or  straddle planche on three fingertips with each hand. It just takes time and practice, you can subtract a finger from each hand as you progress, and slowly but steadily advance.

   Now for the even more advanced terms of balancing on your fingertips, things like two finger balancing, thumb balancing, and balancing on your fingertips without your thumbs is incredibly difficult. But don't give up because you're going to be able to do it with hard work and determination.

   Now with the fingertip balance without your thumbs, just stick to push ups without them. I quickly figured out on my own that the thumb is the equivalent to about, four fingers. So just start out with push ups.

   Now two finger balance, the third finger that you have out acts as a stabilizer, so also consider some hard work with just doing the same exercises as advised with two fingers on the ground until you feel comfortable enough to support all of your body weight on them.

   Thumb balance? Well, that's up to you. Go through everything except for the thumbs free balance, even then do that because it teaches the control required, and work hard. 

   Good luck.