Abstract: A hand-held training weight is useful in the development of hand-grip, wrist and arm strength. The hand-held training weight is ring-shaped and has radial cross-sections tapering from a smallest cross-sectional area to a greatest cross-sectional area and back to the smallest cross-sectional area in a closed-loop path. All of the cross-sectional areas are sized to be hand-gripped. The user can grip the weight with one hand at any location on the weight and extend the forearm to position the weight at a desired distance and direction from the user's body. The user can relocate the grip incrementally until the grip returns to the original grip location. At each incremental grip location the user can incrementally change the orientation of the forearm to create a personal training regimen.