My dad keeps telling me to do them since he did when he was younger, should I listen to my old man and do em? He still has the old piece of barbell he used too
Unironically these forearm rollers were the only thing that made my grip strength blow up. I did all kinds of assistance work and it went nowhere, finally caved and bought a forearm roller and saw incredibly progress.
Also seems moronic but an ab wheel works my abs better than anything else.
>limiting weight by shoulder stamina
Put this shit on a screwdriver and jam it in the wall so all the mass is being moved by your wrist and you'll actually get a workout. Plus you be able to nearly quintuple the weight you're twisting.
Yea you actually shouldn't hold them the way OP's image shows. Hold them at waist height instead of shoulder height, it's better for focusing your wrists and way better for your shoulders and joints.
You don't need much weight at all, to start with you're only going to be using 1 kg, 2 kg if you've already got strong forearms.
With ~1 m of rope I usually get three reps on my first set, where one rep is all the way up, then back down and up again the other direction, and back down to finish.
How many sets and reps do you do, and for how long do you rest between them?
Because it's a light weight I'm putting basically no load on my shoulders. I guess I could shorten the rope and do more reps, but I find a longer rope is better because it means I spend more time on each side of my forearms
Did you build this yourself or buy it somewhere
What kind of weight do you use?
I think I'll try to bring something like that
My gym has weights like related with these empty space on the sides so I could use those but I think it'd require a wider hook attachement?
You can also grab a 20kg bar and place it in front of you. You can use a lower weight soldered bar (it is important that the inertia is transfered to your wrists, not the plates that would start rolling) Then you roll for a min in one direction and at the end you roll it in the opposite direction. The forearm pump you get from this is just unholy. Do it at the end of your workout since you wont even be able to pick up any plates afterwards
>delts >stabilizers >doing a shitty version of a "compound lift" when you're specifically trying to target one of the hardest muscle groups to grow
You stupid fricking moron.
If you want to "grow your stabilizers" by standing with your arms outstretched for 10 minutes go ahead but you're not targeting your forearms.
God you're dumb. I said "work" the stabilizers, not grow them. The stabilizers in your shoulders. Because you stabilize the weight with your shoulders and work your forearms.
You don't need much weight at all, to start with you're only going to be using 1 kg, 2 kg if you've already got strong forearms.
With ~1 m of rope I usually get three reps on my first set, where one rep is all the way up, then back down and up again the other direction, and back down to finish.
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Because it's a light weight I'm putting basically no load on my shoulders. I guess I could shorten the rope and do more reps, but I find a longer rope is better because it means I spend more time on each side of my forearms
pic and build something similar yourself with cheap sturdy materials
These are GOAT forearm exercise. I got some cheap chink one on Amazon and it was designed moronicly like pic rel, when i was doing 40lbs the shitty little piece of chink metal attached to the rope snapped from the pressure and all the weight crashed to the floor and bent the pin and I had to buy new shit from a hardware store for a couple bucks and then just tie a proper knot in the rope that won't come undone from the tension.
I do this excercise, but with my penis instead of a rope
Haha yes you heard that correctly, my peanus weanus
Tie a weight to my foreskin and roll my peanus weanus up and down haha 😀
ITT: excercises that are stupid but also great - my answer is, ofcourse, rolling my peanus weanus 😀
Hahaha!
I saw this one the other day. Might have to find somewhere to actually buy it.
I'd get a rack mounted one but I don't have a rack or a place to put one right now.
i've started to throw a couple of these in at the end of my sets and it's fricking killer on the arms but i can already see the results. i was doing it like in the OP image though and recently switched to waist height. i last a lot longer but there's something cathartic about the sheer gruntsweat i work up hanging it from my shoulders.
I like to do this in front of the gym mirror while making "rooooom!" noises.
Reverse hyper. I fricking hate doing it, but if you want a bullet proof lower chain there's nothing better.
My dad keeps telling me to do them since he did when he was younger, should I listen to my old man and do em? He still has the old piece of barbell he used too
One of my teacher said he did this and he had the biggest forarms I've ever seen
Never hurts to try. I swear by them. Fantastic pump. Just don't do it like in op's photo
How then?
With the wrist roller around this level of height
Unironically these forearm rollers were the only thing that made my grip strength blow up. I did all kinds of assistance work and it went nowhere, finally caved and bought a forearm roller and saw incredibly progress.
Also seems moronic but an ab wheel works my abs better than anything else.
>limiting weight by shoulder stamina
Put this shit on a screwdriver and jam it in the wall so all the mass is being moved by your wrist and you'll actually get a workout. Plus you be able to nearly quintuple the weight you're twisting.
Yea you actually shouldn't hold them the way OP's image shows. Hold them at waist height instead of shoulder height, it's better for focusing your wrists and way better for your shoulders and joints.
You don't need much weight at all, to start with you're only going to be using 1 kg, 2 kg if you've already got strong forearms.
With ~1 m of rope I usually get three reps on my first set, where one rep is all the way up, then back down and up again the other direction, and back down to finish.
Because it's a light weight I'm putting basically no load on my shoulders. I guess I could shorten the rope and do more reps, but I find a longer rope is better because it means I spend more time on each side of my forearms
Did you build this yourself or buy it somewhere
What kind of weight do you use?
I think I'll try to bring something like that
My gym has weights like related with these empty space on the sides so I could use those but I think it'd require a wider hook attachement?
What if you support your wrists in, say, the barbell on the squat rack?
You can also grab a 20kg bar and place it in front of you. You can use a lower weight soldered bar (it is important that the inertia is transfered to your wrists, not the plates that would start rolling) Then you roll for a min in one direction and at the end you roll it in the opposite direction. The forearm pump you get from this is just unholy. Do it at the end of your workout since you wont even be able to pick up any plates afterwards
Why are you young lifters so terrified of working stabilizer muscles?
>delts
>stabilizers
>doing a shitty version of a "compound lift" when you're specifically trying to target one of the hardest muscle groups to grow
You stupid fricking moron.
If you want to "grow your stabilizers" by standing with your arms outstretched for 10 minutes go ahead but you're not targeting your forearms.
>twisting a bar to pull weight up and twisting to let the weight go back down does NOT target your forearms
God you're dumb. I said "work" the stabilizers, not grow them. The stabilizers in your shoulders. Because you stabilize the weight with your shoulders and work your forearms.
How many sets and reps do you do, and for how long do you rest between them?
How can you replicate the wrist roller in your gym if it does not have one
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pic and build something similar yourself with cheap sturdy materials
Steering with pl8. Good excercise for shoulder
These are GOAT forearm exercise. I got some cheap chink one on Amazon and it was designed moronicly like pic rel, when i was doing 40lbs the shitty little piece of chink metal attached to the rope snapped from the pressure and all the weight crashed to the floor and bent the pin and I had to buy new shit from a hardware store for a couple bucks and then just tie a proper knot in the rope that won't come undone from the tension.
I do this excercise, but with my penis instead of a rope
Haha yes you heard that correctly, my peanus weanus
Tie a weight to my foreskin and roll my peanus weanus up and down haha 😀
ITT: excercises that are stupid but also great - my answer is, ofcourse, rolling my peanus weanus 😀
Hahaha!
I saw this one the other day. Might have to find somewhere to actually buy it.
I'd get a rack mounted one but I don't have a rack or a place to put one right now.
up there with neck training in terms of stupidity and uselessness
i've started to throw a couple of these in at the end of my sets and it's fricking killer on the arms but i can already see the results. i was doing it like in the OP image though and recently switched to waist height. i last a lot longer but there's something cathartic about the sheer gruntsweat i work up hanging it from my shoulders.