How Do You Bend Nails With Your Hands

Bending nails using your hands is a pretty good way to show off your forearm strength. It's one of those things that most everyone just can't do. There are even some pretty strong guys out there that cannot bend a nail either because their grip strength is not really that strong or they do not know what the correct technique is. The technique of nail bending is what we are talking about in this article.

You have got the forearm and grip strength and you want to test your strength by bending a nail. There are a few kinds of grips you can try, one may be more comfortable or easier to use than the others for you. These grips are usually called the double overhand, double underhand and the reverse. Using a piece of leather or some type of heavy fabric that you can wrap around the ends of the nails will help protect your hands. There is the chance of damage to your hands so start off with easier stuff at first to get used to it.

For the actual bend technique you must use the whole body not just your arms. Place the pointed end of the nail in the hand that will not do the actual bending. Hold the other end of the nail with your other hand in close so the two hands are close in together. Hold your elbows against your sides to make it a little bit easier to do, and squeeze your hands really hard.

You next just kind of tense up your shoulder and back muscles to assist your arms in the bend. Lock your wrists so your forearms are like one unit. Then bend the nail with your bending hand putting all your have into it. If it won'tt bend just back down to something that would be easier and practice maybe once a week.

This technique is not the only way to do it. Do a little research and you will find a lot of info to help you along. Be careful about damaging the hands with the nails and you will find that as you do more your hands will get tougher.

Go to Feats Of Strength to learn more about testing your grip and forearm strength by bending and tearing stuff. Tim Archbold's interests are Fitness Training and Health.