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Expand-Your-Hand Bands | 
| Brand: IronMind
Category: Sports
Buy New: $11.95
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1713
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 3 x 0.6 x 0.1
Model: 1376
ASIN: B00083B79M
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | promotes hand health through muscle balance | | • | reduces pain from nerve damage, arthritis, tennis elbow | | • | focuses on extensors, boosting overall hand strength | | • | five levels of resistance | | • | fun, colorful, easy to use |
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Product Description
Expand-Your-Hand Bands are a superb tool for promoting hand health by developing muscle balance. A simple but effective tool, Expand-Your-Hand Bands are for just about everyone who uses their hands at work or at play: from tennis players to typists to truck drivers; grandmothers to golfers to grandmaster gripsters; computer programmers to construction workers to cops . . . you get the idea! If you have tennis elbow, arthritis, or nerve damage; or suffer from repetitive stress syndrome or carpal tunnel syndrome, the Expand-Your-Hand Bands are tailor-made for you. Just slip on an Expand-Your-Hand Band and extend your fingers outward against the resistance. Our sturdy bands are comfortable and long-lasting, and they come in five color-coded strengths for progressive training. Use lighter resistance for therapy, rehabilitation and flexibility work, and heavier resistance for building strength. Keep one set at work and the other at home. They're colorful, easy, and fun to use, and above all, they just plain work wonders.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Quality product but one size does not fit all December 3, 2008
I'm a big fan of IronMind's Captains of Crush hand grippers. Little makes me happier than seeing that the US is still making some of the highest quality products available. The same can be said for the "Expand-Your-Hand Bands". Yeah they are simply rubber bands and it is conceivable that you could perform the same excercise with common inexpensive bands of inferior quality. That said, these bands ARE ideally suited for the task... For MOST hands. But for those with large hands, you may be dissapointed as I was. My digits can comfortably span 7 inches apart without bands. However with the bands on I was only able to achieve 5.5 inches of seperation between any two opposing digits before reaching what I believe to be the functional limit of these bands. I had the same experience with all the included bands (so I don't think it was a limitation of my hand strength). I'm sure this product will be an excellent choice for most. But for those with large hands, you might want to explore other options. Hopefully in the future IronMind will release another line for varying sized hands.
 Nice! October 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like these bands. I use these along with the Captains of Crush Hand Gripper - No. 1 and the Gripmaster Exercise Tool, Light, to give my fingers and hands a good workout.
The workout is pretty straight forward. You put the bands around your fingers, place them just under the fingernails and try as many times as you can to expand your fingers outward.
It's a good workout, too. I do the reps until I feel the "burn" in my fingers. I do two sets each hand about twice a week. Now I feel more dexterity with my fingers after using these bands. I'm using the blue bands now (see photos posted). The other bands (except the red ones) are really too weak to give my fingers any real type of workout.
I am not a doctor or hand specialist, but I do feel using these are a good workout. If you are a weight lifter, practicing martial artist, or especially a musician learning/playing a stringed instrument(s), etc., working with these bands will definitely be beneficial to you. I am happy with them so far.
Now while these bands, I feel, do give your fingers a good workout. These are still basically rubber bands. IronMind states these bands are specially treated. Good. I do follow the advice of IronMind in "keeping these bands in a drawer, out of light, and definitely out of direct sunlight -- and also away from heat (so not in the glove box in your car during the summer, etc.)".
But I still have the question in my mind: "How long will these bands last?"
 A Quality Training Tool August 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
These are a great supplement for forearm training. They are not the main tool, but they are not intended to be that.
They do a good job of working the wrist extensors. They are very portable so one can take them anywhere for a workout. The package comes with five different strength bands. The smaller ones would be good for rehabilitating an injury. The others are equipped to increase one's wrist strength.
In addition to these I would highly recommend that anyone serious about improving his/her forearm strength get some Captains of Crush grippers in the appropriate resistance levels for the forearm flexors. In order to determine which ones to get, the reader can go to the Ironmind web site and read up on the various models. Another superb forearm strength training tool is the IVANKO Super Hand Gripper Hand Strength Forearm.
Highly recommended!
 A healthy and cheap alternative! April 23, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm a definite fan of CoC products and the intended purpose of these bands. But bottom line is they are 'fancy' rubber bands (treated or not).
Do yourself a favor and buy some Asparagus or Broccoli from the grocery store and use the bands it comes wrapped in - they are thicker, coated and stronger than regular rubber bands.
I've graduated from two bands up to three... so you know they'll work!
They're rubber bands. May 27, 2007
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
They are rubber bands. Plain and simple. They are treated so it is claimed. I am sure that they will last longer due to that treatment, but why not just buy rubber bands at an office supply store and when they age or break, buy new ones? Certainly not worth the money.
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