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Post by Bruce Tackett on Dec 14, 2018 0:50:26 GMT
I haven’t done it for years, but I use to climb a climbing wall once a week. My fingers and forearms would take a week to recover. It had an auto belay which was fun. But the best workout was to climb up and back down. "auto belay"?
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Post by countryboy on Dec 14, 2018 0:52:08 GMT
The best tool for forearm work. Today I worked out with it for several hours. Growing up on a farm I found that milking cows really made the forearms burn, and you could increase your tension if you were in a hurry...and the cows didn't mind at all. For anyone here who thinks cows give milk, forget that. You have to fight for every drop, and just as a point of interest ...cows would often hold back their milk if they didn't like the way you were milking, or if their mood was wrong.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Dec 14, 2018 1:36:25 GMT
Wow! It's not for nothing you're called "countryboy".
It's those Canadian cows. California cows are happy cows.
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Post by bob44 on Dec 14, 2018 2:54:38 GMT
I haven’t done it for years, but I use to climb a climbing wall once a week. My fingers and forearms would take a week to recover. It had an auto belay which was fun. But the best workout was to climb up and back down. "auto belay"? "auto belay"? After you climb to the top of the wall you just jump off and it lowers you back down. The first time you are not sure but after that it is like a reward for getting to the top.
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Post by countryboy on Dec 14, 2018 16:30:41 GMT
Wow! It's not for nothing you're called "countryboy". It's those Canadian cows. California cows are happy cows. You are correct most honorable leader, but the difference between Canadian cows and California cows is that California cows are crazy and don't think for themselves , but Canadian cows are not stupid, and think for themselves, realizing that when they are no longer good servants, they will be sent to the slaughter house....that is why they resist being squeezed!!!
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Dec 14, 2018 17:10:44 GMT
Yes, but, California cows are, like, totally rad, fer sure!
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Dec 14, 2018 19:28:42 GMT
Here's another forearm wrecker I've made. Anyone who has ever screwed together pipes and tightened them by hand knows what a pump in your forearms you get. With this thing, as soon as you untighten it from one end, it begins to tighten into the other end. Once tightened into one end or the other, you have to exert a tremendous amount of effort to break it free. So, you just keep rotating it back and forth, overhand in one direction, underhand in the other, until your forearms really tire. . If you have a place to permanently mount this thing, you've got one helluva forearm muscle builder that you can just walk up to and wrap your mitts around.
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Post by mr potatohead on Dec 15, 2018 15:42:12 GMT
From the illustrations, looks like this type tool can be used for all of them. Yes, you could use those for the leverage exercises, but I use them for fist in, with the weights hanging below. For fist out, this thing gives you the most ROM: How does this give more Range Of Motion than the "hammer" tools? You can turn your hands just as far, inside or outside with either. And, this one could also be used for fist in or fist out if one wanted to build something more complicated than a "hammer" type tool. Perhaps the tension is more easily made constant throughout the ROM using this than using the "hammer" tool? Could also use bands anchored down to replace the hanging weight? I know you enjoy building gadgets though, so it's all good.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Dec 15, 2018 17:26:58 GMT
You hold the handles at the bottoms with the rope coming out at the tops. You begin with your fists rotated inward as much as possible, and then you rotate your fists outward as far as possible. There is resistance from the suspended weight as soon as you begin rotating your hands outward and the resistance increases as the handles are rotated outward and the rope straightens out, lifting the weight.
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Post by stuke on Dec 16, 2018 0:11:01 GMT
You hold the handles at the bottoms with the rope coming out at the tops. You begin with your fists rotated inward as much as possible, and then you rotate your fists outward as far as possible. There is resistance from the suspended weight as soon as you begin rotating your hands outward and the resistance increases as the handles are rotated outward and the rope straightens out, lifting the weight. [br Woukdn't mind posting a pic here, can't seem to find how.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Dec 16, 2018 1:28:13 GMT
stuke.....
click on the "insert Image" icon (3rd from the right). In the Image Url window, paste the URL to a pic. Ignore the Alt Text window. Click on "Insert Image". To insert a pic from your computer, click on the "Add Attachment" button.
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Post by stuke on Dec 16, 2018 19:49:30 GMT
stuke..... click on the "insert Image" icon (3rd from the right). In the Image Url window, paste the URL to a pic. Ignore the Alt Text window. Click on "Insert Image". To insert a pic from your computer, click on the "Add Attachment" button. Thanks Bruce but I am not sure where the url window is. Might habe to dumb it down for me!
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Dec 16, 2018 20:42:46 GMT
When you click on the Insert Image Icon, there is a window next to the words, Image URL. That's where you paste your URL.
Tell ya what. Click on the Forum Image Gallery at the bottom of this page and follow the instructions at the top.
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Post by stuke on Dec 16, 2018 23:54:19 GMT
When you click on the Insert Image Icon, there is a window next to the words, Image URL. That's where you paste your URL. Tell ya what. Click on the Forum Image Gallery at the bottom of this page and follow the instructions at the top. I think it must be because I am using my phone, there is no image gallery.
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Post by Dave Reslo on Dec 17, 2018 2:11:50 GMT
I've tried pronation/suppination with a setup similar to Shen's; with an axe or weight on the end of a dumbbell; and with a tightly stretched band held in the middle. Honestly, none of them were anything like as a good as the bison m1. I implore you all to take a cursory glance on ebay now and then to see if one is going cheap.
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