Fine Motor Skill Isolation

[0311 Hesco]

Hey y'all, don't know if this has been covered. I don't have enough time here on my lunch break to look it up.

Just wondering if there is a training method for isolating the muscle group for the index finger from the rest of the hand. I know especially in handgun, when I get rolling thru the plate racks and courses, I start throwing shots to the right (right handed) and I know that after a while my trigger finger gets fatigued and my body tried to compensate with the rest of the hand. We are taught our whole lives to use all your fingers to grab something, now we are trying to tell our hands to use only one finger.

Let me know if anyone has a method to engrain more muscle memory into only the index finger. BTW, dry-firing is out of the question for me right now due to geographical constraints.


Thanks

 

[E. Bryant]

If you can't dry-fire an actual firearm, it would seem that you could simply create some sort of analogue using a rubber band hooked to, well, just about anything. I think that Jacob shows an example of such a device in the Rifles Only training DVD.

When I was doing some rehab on an injured hand (keep 'em out of table saws if at all possible), the therapist used some super-stiff silly putty as resistance training. She basically suggested manipulating it as often as possible. It worked well; I basically regained full use of the affected digits within about six months of partial amputation, and so I think it'd work just fine on parts that are already in proper working order.

Then there is this:

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I'm not sure that's how I'd spend $45, but it's an option.

 

[0311 Hesco]

Yea, $45 is way out there. Rubber band is a good idea. So I'm assuming then, the way to accomplish this is to simply "lift" with the trigger finger?

 

[E. Bryant]

The $45 is better spent on the Rifles Only DVD - you'll see how to build such a device (I think it was made from a small scrap of wood and an AR-15 grip), plus a lot more

You want to do more than simply pull against the resistance - you want to train that finger to pull straight rearward. Give yourself a reference (such as a line drawn with a marker or a straight piece of tape), and use that visual reference to ensure that you are not pushing or pulling the band to one side. Since the rubber band is not artificially constrained, it will provide immediate feedback as to what your finger is doing.