The significance of strong wrists is lost ironically due to the routine work carried out by you, using your hands, until such time you suffer injury or pain to your wrist. The wrist joint is the fulcrum for the movement of hand. The wrist joint assumes great importance not just to sports persons or to men and women who do manual jobs but to men and women of all walks of life. Hence it is essential that wrists must be strengthened by performing carefully chosen exercises.

A weak wrist may land you in acute pain even when you perform seemingly simple tasks like typing, writing and carrying little weights. Interestingly, to strengthen your wrists you neither have to attend boot camp exercises or buy expensive equipment. The simple devices that are used for strengthening the wrists are light and portable to enable you to carry it on tours. The most popular and effective wrist strengthening exercises are listed below.

Hand-gripper exercises

Using the highly popular hand-gripper, muscles of the hand and wrists could be strengthened. You just got to press the gripper by holding it in your palms. By repeating the exercises say 10-15 times initially you add strength to your muscles in the wrist. You may gradually increase the number of times you do this exercise for strengthening your wrists.

Chinese handball exercises

Another simple wrist strengthening exercise is to use the metal or glass balls made popular by the Chinese. The simple exercise requires you to rotate in your palms two handy balls in both clock-wise and ant-clockwise directions. You may increase the number of balls you hold in your palms and also the duration of the exercises to gradually strengthen your wrists. This simple exercise in addition to strengthening your wrists, forearms and fingers helps in co-coordinating the hand movements and stimulating the flow of blood in your system.

Dumb-bell exercises

Dumb-bell exercises are highly effective in strengthening the wrists and the forearms. You may try to lift a moderately weighing dumb-bell with your wrists either with your palms down or up for a few times. After a few weeks you may try to increase the weight of the dumb-bell as well as the number of times you repeat the exercise in order to further strengthen the wrists. This exercise is also called as the wrist curls.

Wind and unwinding exercises

While the hand-gripper, Chinese hand balls and dumb-bell exercises use simple devices to strengthen the wrists, the winding exercises can be performed without the aid of any devices. By just tying any light-weighing object to one end of a string and the other end to a small pole, you could do this exercise. Holding the pole you may twist your wrists to wind the rope and gain strength in your wrists. After the rope is wound, you may try to unwind it similarly.

Door-opener exercises

Another simple exercise that could be done without any equipment is the door-opener exercise. By rotating the palm from face down to face up without providing any support to the wrists and reversing the action, you could succeed in strengthening your wrists easily. In fact this exercise is a good warm-up for all other exercises concerning the wrists.

The exercises to strengthen the wrists are thus not strenuous and could be attempted by everyone. These exercises could be done anywhere and at anytime. Once you ensure that your wrists are strong you could carry out most of your day-to-day activities without any difficulty.