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Building up forearms

Hi, i was looking on a site for forearm execrises and found some quit lame techinques. My friend suggested Hand Grips. Im looking into buying these

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0006H4OYA/sr=1-2/qid=1155210067/ref=sr_1_2/202-1547953-3971859?ie=UTF8&s=personal

Anyone reccommend them? If not which ones?

Many Thanks
Tom

Reply 1

Dr Doom

look for ironmind 'captain of crush' grippers if you really want a vice like grip

Reply 2

Hurricane_Herd

1

i think the best thing to build up your fore arms would be to just lift weights, pick them up in your hands so that they are both at your hip then alternatively lift them turning them as you do (so the bar is flat to your body)

Reply 3

Solid_L

11

No them hand grips are the best for fore arms...weights do very little for them.

Reply 4

Andronicus Comnenus

This thread has a very obvious answer to it...

More seriously, wrist curls are tyhe exercise for you.

Tennis

drumming

wrist curls are for sissies. get the grippers i suggested

Reply 8

erk

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Solid_L

weights do very little for them.

Someone who can deadlift, chin and row well, will not have small forearms.

Reply 9

Solid_L

11

erk

Someone who can deadlift, chin and row well, will not have small forearms.

I said very little...not nothing...

If you want to isolate the muscle group them hand grips are the best policy.

Reply 10

erk

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Solid_L

I said very little...not nothing...

If you want to isolate the muscle group them hand grips are the best policy.

but very little is wrong.

i've never trained forearms. they've grown equally with my body through heavy pulling motion (ie. gripping) and eating.

i agree, to isolate a gripper is cool, but to say 'doing weights will do very little' is stupid, when many have shown that all you need is heavy pull motions to make them grow.

Reply 11

Andronicus Comnenus

Raz

wrist curls are for sissies. get the grippers i suggested

Excuse me!? Grippers? aren't they meant for 5 years old girls or something?

Reply 12

Solid_L

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erk

but very little is wrong.

i've never trained forearms. they've grown equally with my body through heavy pulling motion (ie. gripping) and eating.

i agree, to isolate a gripper is cool, but to say 'doing weights will do very little' is stupid, when many have shown that all you need is heavy pull motions to make them grow.

I suppose it does depends on what you mean by "little"... and I have had muscle pain with doing say bicep curls in my forearms, but if you want to make them grow quicker isolating them is better, that's all I'm saying.

Reply 13

tom the mathematician

OP

1

Thanks for all your replies. Ive made up my mind and im going to get the grips.

Raz

look for ironmind 'captain of crush' grippers if you really want a vice like grip

Raz do you know if they are avalible in large retail stores like argos etc?

Reply 14

Barny

17

Pulling/rowing movements and actually using your grip(no straps) gives your forearms more work than they'll ever need.

Reply 15

tom the mathematician

OP

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Pulling/rowing movements and actually using your grip(no straps) gives your forearms more work than they'll ever need.

Kl but i dont have access to any rowing or pulling equipment. Im off to uni soon so ill be joining their gym. i just need something to tie me over until then. Thats why im opting for these Hand Grips.

Reply 16

rock_eleven

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tom the mathematician

Kl but i dont have access to any rowing or pulling equipment. Im off to uni soon so ill be joining their gym. i just need something to tie me over until then. Thats why im opting for these Hand Grips.

heavy-grips make a cheaper product than CoC, very similar though. www.londonkettlebells.com sells them

Reply 17

Dr Doom

Excuse me!? Grippers? aren't they meant for 5 years old girls or something?

let me explain something to you sissy. the grippers you find in argos catalogues and the like are for girls. the ones im talking about come in four levels. the #1 gripper requires 150 pounds of pressure to close. the #2 gripper requires 200 pounds of pressure. #3 and #4 require unbelievable amounts of power to close. so you can go and work in your spandex pant and do wrist curls with your pink dumbells, but let tom the mathematician develop some real power

Reply 18

Dr Doom

hey rockeleven, have you ever used kettlebells before?

Reply 19

MagicNMedicine

20

Reverse bicep curls and wrist curls will strengthen your forearms, as will deadlifting.

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