Thicker hands?!
Question: Thicker hands!?
A bit of an odd question!.!.
In my late teenage years (around age 19) hypothyroidism crept up on me and kicked my *** pretty darn good!. I was barely eating a meal a day and yet gained about 70 lbs while losing a ton of muscle mass and general bulk!.
After I'd gotten on medication and lost all of that fat, I noticed that I had definitely lost some "bulk" or thickness (and I don't just mean fat) on my hands/wrists!. No doubt because of malnutrition and all that!.
It seems to be coming back (very) slowly over the past few years, but I thought I'd check and see if there was any way to accelerate it along!.
I know that the muscles for the hand/wrist are located in the forearm, so you can't just work them out!. But say, for example, beating up on punching boards, or other martial arts equipment designed to "toughen up" parts of the body!.!. would those have any effect!?
What exactly *does* make someone's hands/wrists thicker besides the bone structure!? Thicker skin, larger joints, soft tissue!.!.!.!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
In my late teenage years (around age 19) hypothyroidism crept up on me and kicked my *** pretty darn good!. I was barely eating a meal a day and yet gained about 70 lbs while losing a ton of muscle mass and general bulk!.
After I'd gotten on medication and lost all of that fat, I noticed that I had definitely lost some "bulk" or thickness (and I don't just mean fat) on my hands/wrists!. No doubt because of malnutrition and all that!.
It seems to be coming back (very) slowly over the past few years, but I thought I'd check and see if there was any way to accelerate it along!.
I know that the muscles for the hand/wrist are located in the forearm, so you can't just work them out!. But say, for example, beating up on punching boards, or other martial arts equipment designed to "toughen up" parts of the body!.!. would those have any effect!?
What exactly *does* make someone's hands/wrists thicker besides the bone structure!? Thicker skin, larger joints, soft tissue!.!.!.!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Working with your hands a lot like being a mechanic and tightening bolts down and working with hand tools makes for stronger thicker hands!. Also just in the gym, I never use wrist straps or gloves so I never lift any weight with my body that I can't hold in my hands!. seems pretty common sense until you try doing shrugs!. I can do shrugs with 225lbs now pretty easily with no wrist straps or gloves at all!. another thing ppl use straps for a lot is pullups you've got your whole bodyweight and sometimes much more if doing lat pulldowns!. and to not use gloves or straps for things like that will give you stronger hands!. Other than that just keep working out and working hard and your body will develop the way it needs to!.Www@Answer-Health@Com