I've tried everything to train my grip and get larger forearms. Should I try switching to a wooden finger box? I've been using an older aluminum one.
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You need a fist box for forearms
bucket of rice?
Are you Indian?
it's pricier, but the titanium finger boxes are well worth it IMO, but if you can't afford it i'd stick with a wooden one for now
>titanium finger boxes
Hipster homosexual or shill. Wooden finger boxes are fine if you treat them right, IE not like a Black person.
sour grapes, briefly enjoy your rotting finger box while mine will last my entire life and be passed down for generations to come
>his family heirloom is a mass produced fingerbox
The absolute state of your lineage. Your grandson will curse your grave when he inevitably cuts a finger off.
>assuming it's massed produced
>he doesn't know
KEK
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Most new wooden finger boxes these days are waferboard with a laminate or some cheap bamboo garbage. Your top dollar late models are just acacia with a veneer. You need to look for pre-70s solid hickory if you want to make progress, or some 90s quarter-sawn white oak at the very least. I know a guy who can get you pure ebony from Madagascar, sourced with child labor. It's gonna cost you some serious cash.
Hipster gays that refuse to adopt modern (and better) technology. An alloyed or if you can spring for it, titanium or tungsten, fingerbox is best. Ignore Zoomer materials like carbon fiber.
You've taken the soul out of it. Metal is cold, sterile. It smudges, can never stay polished unless it's collecting dust on a shelf. A hardwood box is a part of nature. You can smell the natural oils of the wood on your finger for weeks after just one session, whether it's hickory, pine, Western red cedar. Look, I own a marble finger box, and I have my eye on....I don't know if I should tell you this....but I'm acquiring a solid jade finger box from the Han Dynasty. I can't tell you how I'm getting it, but yeah, the thing is beautiful, and has a history of royalty. But it's the warmth of the wood for it. It's the tone. I don't want a "ping ding" sound from my finger box. I want that resonate tone, 440hz, on the money, perfect sine wave on my oscilloscope. That's craftsmanship. That's perfection. My eyes are welling up as I tell you this, but it's like you're my kid, my innocent kid, like 5, and you come to me, and you say, "Daddy, what is a soul?" And I look at you, and I pull out my prized 1938 solid hickory. "This was your great-grandaddy's, son, he carved it when he was 16, right before he shipped out to fight in the Sino-Japanese War, carved from a tree that was hit by lightning on stormy night in North Carolina....and this is soul. You have a soul, and this box has a soul. But there's people out there who don't have souls, and there's finger boxes out there made of polyvinyl chloride, and that's not us. That's not our family. That's the line that flows through our American blood, from our ancestors who tamed this savage land. This is what we are."
Spring for mahogany. You will not regret it.
This is some new moronic homosexual shit I've never heard about.
>new
Oh sweet summer child
You’re supposed to Read the Fricking Sticky first before posting here. ‘Boxing has its own dedicated section.
It’s for your fingers. It’s up to you on getting the most out of it, but definitely don’t attempt to train your thumbs on it.
Grip strength, tying knots, pointing…basically whatever you use your fingers for.
anyone see this?
i can't imagine trying to frick my fingerbox
are you stupid? that's how snacks died
Man haven't used one since I was a kid. Mine were shitty plastic
Wood at least, but bone is better. I've heard there are some earthenware ones from the East that are decent despite their heritage.
Whatever you do make sure it's at least a decade old before you buy it, time helps to weed out the lesser examples.
Thats a cajon you fricking idiot
>lost my $1600 finger box in my move from undergrad to graduate school 6 years ago
You don't realize how fricking bad life has been since. I have a new $500 one but I'll never be as strong as I was with the old one.
>$1600 finger box
That price range sounds like a Wellington. You really fricked up because they're worth at least twice as much since going out of production.
Zoomers like
think a shinier fingerbox is a better fingerbox.
whats a finger box?
Ngmi
this fricking board... Let me guess: you hate dr Mike because he's "a israelite" but watch every video of moreplates moredates?
The real tell of quality is the interior. Velvet or bust, been fingering since 06 and you're all homosexuals to me
>Calls it "fingering"
Swinging wooden Indian clubs will make your forearms bigger. Start light. Do the drills very slowly.
Thanks for the tip Rajipor.
I tried this once but I didn’t really get it. It felt like my fingers would get tired before my forearms got any real work in. Any technique tips/pointers?
If you are a homosexual you can try using and assisted fingerbox. Look it up on amazon.
Just do behind the back holds out of a rack, barbell finger curls and single arm hangs
I'll add that to my finger box routine.
>single arm hangs
Do I need multiple boxes for this? Or is it just single box finger hangs?
With a high end finger box you only need one per hand. You can create an imbalance if you use a left handed finger box with your right hand the golden age of ambidextrous finger boxes is long gone.
Nice finger box, not high end, but it will definitely do the job
What exactly does a finger box do?
What third world shithole did you crawl out of to post this?
just answer the question homosexual
Never heard of a fingerbox and has the nerve to call anyone else a homosexual. Wew
When will they add this to the sticky ffs? Guess it's shit anyway but at least have SOME basics so we don't have infinite "hurr what is fingerbox", "durr does creatine cause... le HAIR LOSS?".
This used to be a place where something so simple didn't have to be explained, but I guess so many people posting here don't even lift now that you actually have to explain what one of the most fundamental, all-encompassing pieces of gym equipment is.
It's pretty sad honestly, in a few years we'll probably see morons asking what the frick a kettlebell is or not knowing what the colors of an ab wheel means.
Maybe I'm just getting old, it felt like everyone who went to school knew how to fingerbox from gym class, but I guess physical education is too hard for zoom zooms.
It's the 2016 election fricktards who shit this place up. This and porn trannies on b.
Honestly I wouldn't mind people forgetting kettlebells since they are a literal meme and do nothing, but not knowing fingerboxes and ab wheels should be bannable.
Wait a minute there are people that don't know what the different color ab wheels do? I knew this board has been inundated by demoralization shills but Jesus man...that's pretty basic stuff. Next you'll tell me there's people that count the bar lmao.
I'm in a flyover state where they're still illegal.
Man, I haven't 'boxed for years. It gives me such sweet memories thinking of when I used to play with my old simple plastic one that I got when I was three years old... we weren't a rich family, but we had each other and we each had one of these, from a multipack my dad bought when he visited America. You guys with your fancy mahogany this and titanium that... I hope you appreciate them. When I visit my mother next, I'll ask her if she still has my old fingerbox in the attic somewhere. I don't want to get some contraption online or anything, I just want what I used to have.
>euros unironically still groveling for plastic finger boxes
> 'boxed
Are you that 'za homosexual? Frick off.
get yourself a set of those metal grip strength trainers from Amazon and just crank on them all day. I take mine to work and use it while it's not too busy.
started at 50lb and worked my way up to 200lb
you can do other grip strength exercises but that's one you can take with you pretty much anywhere and use anytime.
You haven't tried steel clubs or maces yet have you OP? Those work.
Have you ever tried a fingerbox?
Is this a burger thing? How do you realistically exercise with it
Make sure you keep the wood well oiled, I use linseed oil personally, but other oils will do in a pinch. Also time under tension is key when using the box
My dad brought me one of these bamboo ones when was on a business trip in Japan in the 80s. I plan to give it my son when he turns 21.Why didn't the cleaning flap ever catch on in the US or Europe?
I honestly like the fine patina that the US models develop over time. I've honestly never cleaned a finger box and like the weathered aesthetic.
>I've honestly never cleaned a finger box and like the weathered aesthetic.
lol have fun with your leprosy
I'll let you guys in on my secret because I like you. You can make your own wooden fingerboxes, paint cool designs on them, and sell them at like 3 to 4x the price of the wood. I'm making a killing, literally only kept my 9-5 for health insurance
You should honestly get an adjustable fingerbox
They can be a bit more pricy and less comfortable than the wooden ones, but they'll last a lot longer as you get better with them
Fingering a box meant something waaaaay different back in my day.
Not falling for your tricks again, Reverend Mother
>I'm ready to settle down
did anybody try to put a penis instead of finger in that hole
>I know I have
Disgraceful. The penis gains aren't worth the long term consequences.
do you count the box into the weight?
Of course not.