Can your fingers handle the monkey bars? What's your biggest challenge with the monkey bars? Drop me a comment! 💪Rebuild Your Shoulders at Home: www.uprighthealth.com/shoulder-fix
Sir pls I need ur help I had accident and I broke my leg bone And heal but I find out my wounded leg is short then the other one Pls wish exercise can I do to make it equal back 😢😢
Today I bought various items from a timber merchant. I bought four sheets of 4-foot by 4-foot 3.6-mm plywood and four 12-foot floorboards. The young man working in the stores carried the timber to my van. On his right shoulder, he carried the four floorboards. Using his left hand; he grasped the four sheets of plywood on the top edge with his fingers, lifted them clear of the ground, and carried them approximately 20 yards. If I hadn't seen him do it, I would not have believed it possible to carry those pieces of plywood like that. When I got home, I tried to lift just one piece in the same way he had carried four; I couldn't even lift it off the ground. To my mind, his finger strength was insane. That's the reason I watched this video.
When I did that kind of work it was easy. You get so used to it you don't really notice the weight anymore. And you learn tricks to do it easier. But that was many years ago, and I can't do it now. Which is why I am here too. 😁
I know a young lad in the Uk who’s a roofer. His right trap muscle is ridiculously overdeveloped compared to the rest of his physique, because he’s always carrying stacks of tiles up and down ladders
I used to never think about hand strength, but after a bad car accident, 2 house renovations and 2 very heavy, very needy babies who needed to be carried *constantly*, I ended up with ganglion cysts on my wrists and bad tennis elbow. I feel like I have hand arthritis and constantly have to ask for help to open jars now. I HATE this! And when I wanted to show my daughters how I used to play basketball, I realized that my hands and arms don't work the way they used to. Weak hands make you feel old and limited before your time. That's why I'm here!
I’m losing finger, wrist and bicep strength. I trust you to introduce me to effective exercises for an elder woman like me. I bought your hip program. Now I have to start it.
I have clear memories of being in elementary school and doing thinks on monkey bars and pull up bars that would kill me if I tried them today. It's exciting to know that, 50 years later, it's still possible to recover at least some portion of that strength and flexibility that was just a natural part of being young.
I ended up here because i just signed up to do a spartan race, been a bucket list item for years but i decided if i buy the ticket then i'll finally have to go through with it, so i did. And then started training and realized "oh no. monkey bars are so much harder than i remember them being as a kid, i might be able to run 5k but i'm going to fail the race because I can't do monkey bars anymore." I appreciate all your videos on the steps to regain this ability :D
I'm enjoying your channel so much! I'm recently retired from a career in health care and have considered myself fairly fit for my age (73). But going from daily routine of bending ,squatting , stretching and lifting to basically zero over this winter has left me concerned about the next 20yrs or so that I expect to be living.... After watching the hand and arm strength activities you are demonstrating on the monkey bars it occurred to me that since so many playgrounds are seldom used by the kids any more 😢 ,that those might be a great new hangout for my girls walking group ! Free gym equipment at the public playground has been taken over by grandparents instead of grand kids !! I'm going for it !!😂😂 Thanks for the inspiration!! I'll keep watching !!😊
Love this ! I am 56 and restarting a movement practise I have been recently diagnosed with CPTSD and Autism and movement is really helping me. I am doing Contact improvisation and parkour and tricking training. I have just started a channel to document my artistic process/practise.
My fingers get crampy these days, especially my right hand ones. When I work with my hands, especially auto mechanics type stuff, or anything that requires twisting, gripping, or squeezing, I get cramps bad in my index and middle finger. Very painful… I follow and trust Matt and Upright Health, so I was pleased to see this content.
I do massage-bodywork and have recently had a few clients with arthritis issues and/or loss of fine-control in their fingers. It kind of seems like there's a little bit of a give and take in between fine digital control and strong grip-strength, but maybe the two aren't as mutually exclusive as they seem. Hope you don't mind me piggy-backing on your comment, I'm hoping the Upright Health crew sees it and maybe shares a little more info on the subject if they have the body-knowledge to share :) But here's some things I've learned in my line of work that might be helpful for you and your cramping issue, Lex: consider creating a stretching regimen that stretches the muscles you use most frequently in the opposite way that you most-often use them. So if you usually turn things out with your hands, find some stretches that rotate your wrist in (or visa versa if you favor the other way.) For all the gripping and flexing of the fingers, get yourself a thick broccoli rubber-band to use as a finger resistance-band. Hold it looped around your finger and stretch your finger against it by extending it up. Repeat this on each finger and for each knuckle. Experimenting with different angles over time can help shake out troublesome long-term tension. Pretty sure my hands would have fallen off by now if I didn't do this one. Additionally, spending 5 minutes before and after work stretching your hands out will do a lot to reduce injury and maintain function long-term.
Great timing for this video! I'm 72 and a high-beginner to mid-intermediate level pole dancer (I started about a year ago). I noticed when i turned 70 i had a noticable decline in grip strength , and this is holding me back in my pole practice.
@@AlphaGeekgirl Never too old! I might not be able to do a lot of tricks the younger players can do, but I can do some tricks they can't do. We all learn at different rates and some things come easier to me than other powers, and vice versa. I don't need to do flips, etc. I am happy just to be dancing around the pole (and my husband is happy I am, too!) If you are thinking about it, I say do it. You won't be sorry. The pole world is very welcoming and inclusive. And it is a very fun way of exercising!
I recently read that a person loses hand grip strenghth as they age, and people who cant grip hard are closer to the end. Geriatric exams have patients squeeze a doctors fingers to gauge their state of health. I want to keep my grip strong into middle and old age. I watched cause I Think this can help
Why? I am 60 and in the early stages of doing all the boating, like kayak and sailing, in the ocean I always wanted to do. If I end up in the water, I need the strength to self rescue and get back in the boat, even in times when I am tired and the water is cold. So even though the water provides some assistance to pull myself up, the extra strength could be needed. Plus shoulder and lat strength are also needed for paddling.
Grip is definitely what's holding me back at the moment, turns out holding on with one hand when weighing 140kg isn't easy lol. That does also mean that i can potentially build quite the gorilla grip from simply hanging, or so i'm hoping
Please do a video on abdominal/core stretches. I have a really tight core and upper abdominal area from sitting slouched over to often with bad posture.
What a great video I suffer from trapped nerve in neck or traps or wrist that has caused me to atrophy in my right hand lateral finger movement is stifled frontal movement is there I have tried nerve flossing but fear I don’t have the patience
Need more finger/wrist/arm/shoulder strength to improve aging grip. Unscrewing light bulbs, lids on jars, carrying 20 kg water softener salt from car to basement, and changing my 11litre drinking water bottle are just some of the things I want to be able to do again after (now healed) rotator cuff injuries. Hope to find my strength again!
What brought me to this video? Well, your excellence, for a start. But my 80 year old female fingers also who can’t open a jar 🫙 of anything 😢. I work out on my rowing 🚣🏽 machine 3-4 times a week and my arms and legs are quite toned, but my fingers are 👎🏻
I came across one of your videos because I recently started calisthenics and I'm struggling to do pull uplls and chin ups, but I also struggle to do monkeys bars (my 4 year old is better at monkey bars than I am, so I wanna be able to play with her)... thanks for you videos very informative
I can hang okay, but my left thumb has hurt for years when I have to hold a heavy skillet and dish out left-overs, or pull weeds, etc. I will apply these techniques and see if I can strengthen that thumb. I notice that it's not weak if I keep the joint flexed, but if I pinch something hard when it's "collapsed" (hyper extended?) then it hurts.
I've been developing a similar pain in the past few months, exacerbated by any kind of gaming with a controller. Have you found anything in particular that has helped you?
@@dirtywhitellama I've had limited success in a manageable daily exercise of the affected joint. I sometimes feel little bones moving back into place as I do certain movements, so my case may be very different than yours (my problem apparently started after playing a piano piece where I had to cross my thumb under my fingers in a rather extreme position). Good luck! Wish I could be more helpful.
I have recently been diagnosed with Dupuytren's Contracture with has led to some muscle loss and other problems in my arm as well as my hand. Looking for ways to rebuild and keep strong.
Why am I after stronger hands and shoulders? I do Historical European Martial Arts, and they require quick, fine movement. So strength is vital! Especially for rapier and sidesword.
I'm here because I worked with a PT in 2022-3 and found my grip strength was badly lacking. He didn't really give me much guidance on how to strengthen them
They're called Monkey bars, but most of the open space play areas around where I live are designed for small children, so they're nothing like the facilities that feature in your footage. It's probably a H&S thing and a perception that there's a not a demand for it. Fitness and health is seen to be the domain of the upwardly mobile with excess income, I'm fairly certain that if you paid a subscription to a gym such facilities would be available. @@Uprighthealth
dealing with osteoarthritis in my thumb joints and now some discomfort in the base of the middle finger of the same hand. Struggle opening a jar or lid without the use of a rubber gripper, what to try and improve strength, but with osteoarthritis is is joint ware :(
Wondering what kettlebell weight would be suitable. Having two that are 20% and 25% of my bodyweight and also able to do ~1min 2H-bodyweight hangs. Now of course I could do two-hand hangs only but watching TV and stuff that 20% kettle would be nice, just unsure if it'd turn into any kind of gains worth the effort. ..and now while typing this I realize I can lift 1-3 fingers off and alternate them to adjust the difficulty.
Honestly I'm just here cuz I need to intimidate the kids at the park who laughed at me after I fell on my ass trying to do a backflip on the jungle gym like I used to 20 years ago.
Yeah if youre lifting you get used to carrying around heavy plates with just your fingers and finger strength isnt an issue. Can you grab an Olympic bb from one end and raise the other end? Calluses on the hand digging in seems to be my breaking point. Lots will have issues with this from tight or weak lats. I had a rotator cuff issue and until i worked on bringing my arms up from all angles above my head it didnt really get better
Can your fingers handle the monkey bars? What's your biggest challenge with the monkey bars? Drop me a comment!
💪Rebuild Your Shoulders at Home: www.uprighthealth.com/shoulder-fix
My hands and forearms - so this video is helpful!
Sir pls I need ur help
I had accident and I broke my leg bone
And heal but I find out my wounded leg is short then the other one
Pls wish exercise can I do to make it equal back 😢😢
Today I bought various items from a timber merchant. I bought four sheets of 4-foot by 4-foot 3.6-mm plywood and four 12-foot floorboards. The young man working in the stores carried the timber to my van. On his right shoulder, he carried the four floorboards. Using his left hand; he grasped the four sheets of plywood on the top edge with his fingers, lifted them clear of the ground, and carried them approximately 20 yards. If I hadn't seen him do it, I would not have believed it possible to carry those pieces of plywood like that. When I got home, I tried to lift just one piece in the same way he had carried four; I couldn't even lift it off the ground. To my mind, his finger strength was insane. That's the reason I watched this video.
When I did that kind of work it was easy. You get so used to it you don't really notice the weight anymore. And you learn tricks to do it easier.
But that was many years ago, and I can't do it now. Which is why I am here too. 😁
I’d have been impressed as well!
Awesome story!
I think he is on to “use it or lose it” 😂
I know a young lad in the Uk who’s a roofer. His right trap muscle is ridiculously overdeveloped compared to the rest of his physique, because he’s always carrying stacks of tiles up and down ladders
I used to never think about hand strength, but after a bad car accident, 2 house renovations and 2 very heavy, very needy babies who needed to be carried *constantly*, I ended up with ganglion cysts on my wrists and bad tennis elbow.
I feel like I have hand arthritis and constantly have to ask for help to open jars now. I HATE this!
And when I wanted to show my daughters how I used to play basketball, I realized that my hands and arms don't work the way they used to.
Weak hands make you feel old and limited before your time. That's why I'm here!
I’m losing finger, wrist and bicep strength. I trust you to introduce me to effective exercises for an elder woman like me. I bought your hip program. Now I have to start it.
I have clear memories of being in elementary school and doing thinks on monkey bars and pull up bars that would kill me if I tried them today. It's exciting to know that, 50 years later, it's still possible to recover at least some portion of that strength and flexibility that was just a natural part of being young.
As he says, do it safely and you should be able to get there.
I ended up here because i just signed up to do a spartan race, been a bucket list item for years but i decided if i buy the ticket then i'll finally have to go through with it, so i did. And then started training and realized "oh no. monkey bars are so much harder than i remember them being as a kid, i might be able to run 5k but i'm going to fail the race because I can't do monkey bars anymore." I appreciate all your videos on the steps to regain this ability :D
I'm enjoying your channel so much! I'm recently retired from a career in health care and have considered myself fairly fit for my age (73). But going from daily routine of bending ,squatting , stretching and lifting to basically zero over this winter has left me concerned about the next 20yrs or so that I expect to be living.... After watching the hand and arm strength activities you are demonstrating on the monkey bars it occurred to me that since so many playgrounds are seldom used by the kids any more 😢 ,that those might be a great new hangout for my girls walking group ! Free gym equipment at the public playground has been taken over by grandparents instead of grand kids !! I'm going for it !!😂😂 Thanks for the inspiration!! I'll keep watching !!😊
I like the parks that have that equipment so I can play on it without kids around. But yes, public playgrounds have what you need.
Love this ! I am 56 and restarting a movement practise I have been recently diagnosed with CPTSD and Autism and movement is really helping me. I am doing Contact improvisation and parkour and tricking training. I have just started a channel to document my artistic process/practise.
My fingers get crampy these days, especially my right hand ones. When I work with my hands, especially auto mechanics type stuff, or anything that requires twisting, gripping, or squeezing, I get cramps bad in my index and middle finger. Very painful… I follow and trust Matt and Upright Health, so I was pleased to see this content.
I do massage-bodywork and have recently had a few clients with arthritis issues and/or loss of fine-control in their fingers. It kind of seems like there's a little bit of a give and take in between fine digital control and strong grip-strength, but maybe the two aren't as mutually exclusive as they seem. Hope you don't mind me piggy-backing on your comment, I'm hoping the Upright Health crew sees it and maybe shares a little more info on the subject if they have the body-knowledge to share :)
But here's some things I've learned in my line of work that might be helpful for you and your cramping issue, Lex: consider creating a stretching regimen that stretches the muscles you use most frequently in the opposite way that you most-often use them. So if you usually turn things out with your hands, find some stretches that rotate your wrist in (or visa versa if you favor the other way.)
For all the gripping and flexing of the fingers, get yourself a thick broccoli rubber-band to use as a finger resistance-band. Hold it looped around your finger and stretch your finger against it by extending it up. Repeat this on each finger and for each knuckle. Experimenting with different angles over time can help shake out troublesome long-term tension. Pretty sure my hands would have fallen off by now if I didn't do this one.
Additionally, spending 5 minutes before and after work stretching your hands out will do a lot to reduce injury and maintain function long-term.
You know, that's not quite what I thought you meant by better monkey business using my fingers...
Watching for not doing the monkey bars but indoor rock climbing! Hope to apply some of this for climbing
Great timing for this video! I'm 72 and a high-beginner to mid-intermediate level pole dancer (I started about a year ago). I noticed when i turned 70 i had a noticable decline in grip strength , and this is holding me back in my pole practice.
Good on you! I thought at 61 I was too old.. but you’re an inspiration!
@@AlphaGeekgirl Never too old! I might not be able to do a lot of tricks the younger players can do, but I can do some tricks they can't do. We all learn at different rates and some things come easier to me than other powers, and vice versa. I don't need to do flips, etc. I am happy just to be dancing around the pole (and my husband is happy I am, too!) If you are thinking about it, I say do it. You won't be sorry. The pole world is very welcoming and inclusive. And it is a very fun way of exercising!
I recently read that a person loses hand grip strenghth as they age, and people who cant grip hard are closer to the end. Geriatric exams have patients squeeze a doctors fingers to gauge their state of health. I want to keep my grip strong into middle and old age. I watched cause I Think this can help
It will definitely help. And as your grip gets stronger, your primary care doc will likely be shocked at your handshake. :)
Thanks for this vid. Always sound advice. Now I need to go find some Monkey Bars!
Thanks for the inspiration. Good suggestions here.
Why? I am 60 and in the early stages of doing all the boating, like kayak and sailing, in the ocean I always wanted to do. If I end up in the water, I need the strength to self rescue and get back in the boat, even in times when I am tired and the water is cold. So even though the water provides some assistance to pull myself up, the extra strength could be needed. Plus shoulder and lat strength are also needed for paddling.
Great video
Grip is definitely what's holding me back at the moment, turns out holding on with one hand when weighing 140kg isn't easy lol. That does also mean that i can potentially build quite the gorilla grip from simply hanging, or so i'm hoping
I have some pain in fingers and hands while crocheting. Want to strengthen and stretch to possibly help.
Please do a video on abdominal/core stretches. I have a really tight core and upper abdominal area from sitting slouched over to often with bad posture.
What a great video I suffer from trapped nerve in neck or traps or wrist that has caused me to atrophy in my right hand lateral finger movement is stifled frontal movement is there I have tried nerve flossing but fear I don’t have the patience
bro i love ur content i found this today and i start doing monkey things i will be monke in some time! i really get this what i really need :D
Need more finger/wrist/arm/shoulder strength to improve aging grip. Unscrewing light bulbs, lids on jars, carrying 20 kg water softener salt from car to basement, and changing my 11litre drinking water bottle are just some of the things I want to be able to do again after (now healed) rotator cuff injuries. Hope to find my strength again!
71 yeats old live in Illinios,in winter my hand get stiff,this Winter index finger on both,hit with arthris.pain and cuvring up finger
I'm just trying to get better at pullups
What brought me to this video? Well, your excellence, for a start. But my 80 year old female fingers also who can’t open a jar 🫙 of anything 😢. I work out on my rowing 🚣🏽 machine 3-4 times a week and my arms and legs are quite toned, but my fingers are 👎🏻
@@josh-bodnar
You will! Thank you 🙏
I came across one of your videos because I recently started calisthenics and I'm struggling to do pull uplls and chin ups, but I also struggle to do monkeys bars (my 4 year old is better at monkey bars than I am, so I wanna be able to play with her)... thanks for you videos very informative
I can hang okay, but my left thumb has hurt for years when I have to hold a heavy skillet and dish out left-overs, or pull weeds, etc. I will apply these techniques and see if I can strengthen that thumb. I notice that it's not weak if I keep the joint flexed, but if I pinch something hard when it's "collapsed" (hyper extended?) then it hurts.
I've been developing a similar pain in the past few months, exacerbated by any kind of gaming with a controller. Have you found anything in particular that has helped you?
@@dirtywhitellama I've had limited success in a manageable daily exercise of the affected joint. I sometimes feel little bones moving back into place as I do certain movements, so my case may be very different than yours (my problem apparently started after playing a piano piece where I had to cross my thumb under my fingers in a rather extreme position). Good luck! Wish I could be more helpful.
@@naturelover137 oof, that doesn't sound fun! Thanks for the response and good luck!
I have recently been diagnosed with Dupuytren's Contracture with has led to some muscle loss and other problems in my arm as well as my hand. Looking for ways to rebuild and keep strong.
Can I train hanging with bicep tendonitis or should I wait until it healed?
Why am I after stronger hands and shoulders? I do Historical European Martial Arts, and they require quick, fine movement. So strength is vital! Especially for rapier and sidesword.
Major osteoarthritis in my thumb saddle joints... maybe even bone on bone 😳🤔🥺
I tried to do a plank with my finger tips😂.
Not when you have trigger finger on both middle fingers and arthritis. I think not.
I have essential tremor in my hands and I'm looking for ways to strengthen my hands and wrists in hopes of reducing the shaking.
I'm here because I worked with a PT in 2022-3 and found my grip strength was badly lacking. He didn't really give me much guidance on how to strengthen them
Hope you find this helpful!
@@Uprighthealth I do. Thank you!
Any suggestions for when your little finger is arthritic?
I've made progress going from 2 seconds to 1 minute with static hangs. My fingers limit me to going much further than 1 minute static hang.
I need to find some Monkey bars, I don't think they exist local to me here in the UK.
Perhaps they are called by another name? Ape Pubs? Primate Rods? Yankee Pulleys?
They're called Monkey bars, but most of the open space play areas around where I live are designed for small children, so they're nothing like the facilities that feature in your footage. It's probably a H&S thing and a perception that there's a not a demand for it. Fitness and health is seen to be the domain of the upwardly mobile with excess income, I'm fairly certain that if you paid a subscription to a gym such facilities would be available. @@Uprighthealth
in the future we're all in pods creating energy
Tubes plugged into the brain through the napes...
dealing with osteoarthritis in my thumb joints and now some discomfort in the base of the middle finger of the same hand. Struggle opening a jar or lid without the use of a rubber gripper, what to try and improve strength, but with osteoarthritis is is joint ware :(
I used to do them, but recently i do a lot of boxing heavy bag, i was wondering if monkey bars would be great ? I dont wanna destroy my hand too much
I am not even at the point of considering the monkey bars, I'm just looking for ways to reduce pain in my fingers and thumbs at this point 😭
Wondering what kettlebell weight would be suitable. Having two that are 20% and 25% of my bodyweight and also able to do ~1min 2H-bodyweight hangs.
Now of course I could do two-hand hangs only but watching TV and stuff that 20% kettle would be nice, just unsure if it'd turn into any kind of gains worth the effort.
..and now while typing this I realize I can lift 1-3 fingers off and alternate them to adjust the difficulty.
Honestly I'm just here cuz I need to intimidate the kids at the park who laughed at me after I fell on my ass trying to do a backflip on the jungle gym like I used to 20 years ago.
How to get more flexible and stronger fingers? Drummer who is losing it asking 😢
I bet you still can drum a million times better than I’ll ever be able to!
May elbow hurts
That why
How about the strengthening of the ulnar nerve?
Who?
@@someblokecalleddave1 😆
Yeah if youre lifting you get used to carrying around heavy plates with just your fingers and finger strength isnt an issue. Can you grab an Olympic bb from one end and raise the other end? Calluses on the hand digging in seems to be my breaking point. Lots will have issues with this from tight or weak lats. I had a rotator cuff issue and until i worked on bringing my arms up from all angles above my head it didnt really get better
u are a skinny guy / light weight easy to have good strength weight ratio...
I'm trying to get to my first pullup, but I always end up with Lego people hands for a while 🫤