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Topic: Are you doing any excercises to strenghten the fingers and arm?  (Read 4391 times)

Offline tombikadam

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I mean with the dumbells or another exercise tool to help  ::)

Offline thalbergmad

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Re: Are you doing any excercises to strenghten the fingers and arm?
Reply #1 on: October 25, 2014, 02:30:30 PM
I do it to improve my arm wrestling, not my piano playing.

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Offline Bob

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Re: Are you doing any excercises to strenghten the fingers and arm?
Reply #2 on: October 25, 2014, 03:31:41 PM
I think getting heart rate up to 80-100% max rate helps everything.
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