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fingers, against the held pressure of the inside fingers. In the first movement you are pushing outwards with the inner fingers against the outer fingers.

In the second movement the emphasis is on more pushing inwards, with the outer fingers against the inner fingers. It is just a subtle difference in focus here to emphasise, and create the differing counteracting, and positional forces.

For added resistance and variation you can experiment with this basic movement quiet a bit. You can use two fingers together against one finger, or three fingers against two. There are many variations, and different starting positions that you can try this basic movement from.

This exercise can also be performed without the second hand taking part in it at all. What you do is to simply squeeze as hard as you can one finger tip against the tip of your thumb by pushing them tightly together now. And then just move along your line of fingers all the way down to the little finger once more again.

Exercise Four: Tennis Ball

This one is an old one, but still a good one. You simply take an old tennis ball placed, or gripped in the palm of your hand, and squeeze it inwards repeatedly. You can actually also buy hand grippers to do this with, but the tennis ball is all that you really require. You can just squeeze in and out, or you can hold the tension of the squeezed position for a moment or two before releasing the grip.

This exercise can be done without a tennis ball by simply squeezing your hands into as tight a fist as possible, holding them firmly clenched for a few seconds and then opening both hands palms wide and stretching outwards your thumbs and fingers into a star formation. While stretching outwards, also try to separate your individual fingers as wide apart from each other as you can. Also hold this tight stretch for a few seconds before repeating again the squeezing movement.

Exercise Five: Walking the Broom

This is my favourite exercise, and it reminds me of that old kid's nursery rhyme of "ipsy wipsy spider" climbing up the water spout. What you do is to grab the broom handle at the top of the broom handle, and with the bristle end down nearest to the floor. You grab the handle between your thumb and fingers with the one hand only. Then you perform a pushing and pulling movement with your thumb and fingers placed on opposite sides of the handle.

If you have gotten this right, and understood what I am describing you will start to feed the handle upwards through your fingers

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