Technique
- Make a proper fist with thumb over your fingers
- Slowly, joint by joint, open your hand while maintaining isometric tension
- From fully outstretched hand reverse the motion, keeping slowness and tension through the whole movement
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Forearms
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Flexor digitorum superficialis
- Flexor digitorum profondus
- Flexor pollicis longus
- Extensor digitorum
Equipment
Appears in
Strength
Joint movements
trains stretches
Progressions

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