Hand Arm And Upper Body Conditioning For A Man That Fits In His Briefcase

Men who want to strengthen their hand or arm, or with hand or arm injuries, can do so anywhere.

Here's a great idea for a gift for a man who needs some rehabilitation work on the muscles of his hands, wrists, arms and shoulders. It's a tiny little hand dumbbell with an internal gyroscope that provides resistance to movement.

Or maybe he just works in a job requiring more hand strength and upper body conditioning.

The way it works is this. If he holds the dumbbell, about the size of a tennis ball, and rotates his wrist the gyroscope inside the dumbbell rotates at around 13,000 rpm and this provides torque of up to 38 lbs resistance.

Studies at the southern UK University have shown that using the gyroscopic dumbbell can increase maximum hand grip strength by an average of 11 percent.

It comes with a docking station which initiates the spinning of the gyroscope and tachometer which displays the current rpm. This allows him to track his progress.

It's a tiny way for him to work on his hand strength as well is his arm and shoulder strength.

NASA sent a gyroscopic dumbbell interspace with their astronauts that help maintain their upper body conditioning. It's so small that NASA could fit it in one of their spacecraft.

And it's so small that your men can take it with anywhere he goes, packed away safely.

It runs on two double A batteries.

Or perhaps your man has some form of repetitive strain injury or osteoarthritis of the hands. A similar device, intended more to help mitigate the effects of these types of hand problems is the hand fitness trainer.

As you can see from the photo this is worn like a glove and provides resistance each time he opens his hand and fingers. This helps strengthen the extensor muscles in the hand and in turn this helps reduce the pain associated repetitive strain injuries of the hand as well as of the elbow.

Resistance can be adjusted for every single finger.

This helps not only the hand, but for a man who has a condition of the elbow such as tennis elbow or tendonitis it can be extremely effective.

It also increases manual dexterity, improves balance of the muscles in the hands and improves joint stability.

The hand fitness trailer has won the Medical Design Excellence Award for its design features.

This too will fit in a briefcase very easily and can be taken anywhere so we can use it whenever he wishes.

Get both of them at Hammacher Schlemmer, just type "hand exercise" into their search tool and you'll see them there. Read more