Conditioning bone is pretty similar to conditioning muscles. You stress them in small doses, and then repair themselves to be stronger. You have to have to know what you're doing to get the best effect though. Going into the gym and trying to pickup the heaviest weight isn't going to make you a body builder (you'll probably just hurt your back), just like hitting yourself w/ a hammer isn't going to make you a MMA fighter.
The thing w/ the knuckles is that you have a lot of joints, and ligaments there which you don't want to "condition". Bones come back stronger after being broken, but ligaments, and joints tend to get torn down.
jrhawk42
good point,thats what i do i do condtioning(knuckle pushups.,bareknuckle heavy bag punching....and possibly the hammer if i decide to add it) until it hurts and then i wait however much time it takes for them to fully repair and from there i begin again..
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