Lay the right hand flat on a table or other hard plane surface, fingers and thumb far out-spread. Press firmly with the whole hand on the table. Continuing this downward pressure, exert an upward pressure against it with the finger tips, and raise the body of the hand about 1½ inches from the table top. Throughout this entire exercise try to keep the back of the hand parallel with the table. After you have reached the desired height, press the hand down to the table top again against muscular resistance. Repeat this exercise ten times.
Perform the same exercise with the left hand.
EXERCISE 25.
Place the elbows at the side, forearms horizontal, with your hands out in front of you. Bend the hands downward at the wrist with the fingers loose and gently curved. Then bend the hands upward from the wrist as far as they will go. This exercise may be done with both hands at the same time. Repeat ten times.
With your forearms extended in front of you, and the hands held straight out, fingers spread wide apart, palms down, move the hands at the wrist slowly from side to side with considerable muscle resistance. Do not move the arm. All motion must be from the wrist, and in a side-wise direction. Repeat ten times.
Extend the forearms and hands in front of you, palms up, with the fingers held close together. Moving from the wrist as a pivot, and from no other joint describe as large a circle as possible with the finger tips using muscular resistance, slowly ten times, then reverse the motion and repeat ten times circling back in the opposite direction.
EXERCISE 26.
