[sc name="article-ad"]I’m 57 and to tell you the truth I’ve never played tennis before. We lived far from the places where I would be able to learn to play tennis. Working as a teacher in a very small school, I always tried to keep my body in form and to do different flexibility exercises at home. But after retirement last year I moved to another place to live and my neighbour invited me to play at the tennis court with him. I can’t say that he is a very nice player but at least he trained during ten years before and can play well enough. He is three years older than me but I liked him very much and decided that it’s enough to be lonely and to live always alone. So I started to play tennis with great enthusiasm. And the first day immediately I had a really bad pain in my right wrist. The next day after this first training I could not hold anything in my right hand. The neighbour brought me his own training equipment. It was a small wrist ball.

I started to do my wrist exercises the same day. It was not very pleasant because my wrist was in bad condition after my first training at the tennis court. But I did about 10 squeezes only and felt pain in my arm and in my hand. But I am a persistent person. And besides this my neighbour said to me that exercises with wrist ball may be painful at first, so I decided that it’s necessary to continue my home workout. My wish to learn to play tennis was very big!

The next day I did my wrist exercises with wrist ball three times a day and added 5 squeezes each time, so that the third work out was of 20 squeezes. I did it this way and several days later I felt real hand strength. As I remember I felt this about one week after he gave me this wrist ball. I realized that this small hand exerciser may be a very useful thing when you need to train your hand to be ready for a real game. So I decided that I need to buy my own one because probably my neighbour needs it too. It was not difficult to find a proper one online because I knew exactly what I wanted.

This very small and lovely sport equipment helped me to work out my hand strength so that I am a real tennis player now! Of course I am a beginner only but give it time – I’ll improve, believe me!