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Post by stuke on Sept 19, 2020 20:13:58 GMT
Your forearms look good, stuke! Thank you!
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Post by moxohol on Sept 19, 2020 20:17:04 GMT
Fingertip holds on your knees. Dead grip hangs with folded thick towel draped over door top. Do them throughout the day. Fresh as possible. Not sure what you mean by fingertip holds on your knees, but I am a big fan of towel holds as you describe them, though I hang mine over my chin up bar. I also do pull ups from them. I dont think there is any chance of me doing any sort of pinch grios or thumb work again. Spread your fingers out as if doing pushups but do so on your knees in a static position. It's easier to do than on your toes. Leverage factors.
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Post by stuke on Sept 19, 2020 20:43:11 GMT
I'm going to give. Primal Punch a watch. I think where I am coming from with my forearms is perhaps a little different to what you people usually aim for. I will work my grip to some degree, but primarily this time I am focussing on my forearms which I have found for me means wrist curls, reverse wrist curls, hammer curls... well you know the score from previous posts. I am not particularly chasing size, more shape, vascularity and a gnarly look - ie trees gnarly, not surfer gnarly! I think one of the secret weapons is the combination of occlusion training with off day active recovery with the Powerball.
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Post by mr potatohead on Sept 20, 2020 16:51:10 GMT
Last time I checked, Primal Punch guy, Cedric Nye, hadn't been doing anything on his youtube channel lately. He may be out kickin' zombie ass.
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Post by stuke on Sept 23, 2020 22:34:24 GMT
I might have overdone it a little a few days ago, I am careful not to extend my wrists too far on the stretch when wrist curling, but still ended up with some pain the next day or two. Nothing worrying really, but I took 2 full days off forearm training just to allow some recovery time. Today I started with some pull ups holding rolled uo tows draped over the bar, followed by some hangs and wire cutting with a pair of pliers. Next was reverse curls with an EZ bar, staying a couple of inches short of full extension. I used occlusion training as usual and followed the reverse curls with dumbbell reverse wrist curls, into partial hammer curls when I hit failure. After releasing the rolled up elasticated supports around my upper biceps to let some blood flow again, I re tightened and went into standing wrist curls (there is no real stress at extension but more at contraction) supersetted with behind the back wrist curls, using the EZ bar as the weight is kind of offset. Some dumbbell wrist curls followed. To finish, I hung weight from a chain, grasped one end with my arm bent at my side and twisted my hand towards me, like Devon Larratt does with a belt. This felt better than the dumbbell version I normally do.
Usually when I focus on one muscle, over time I get less and less feel out of the exercises, which is strange, but so far so good.
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Post by pierinifitness on Sept 24, 2020 13:45:54 GMT
stuke, thanks for sharing your science experiment. I like to read what others are doing and the details when they share. With your currently training, do you believe your grip endurance has improved such as, for example, measured by how long you can hang from a pull-up bar before dropping?
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Post by stuke on Sept 24, 2020 14:43:19 GMT
stuke, thanks for sharing your science experiment. I like to read what others are doing and the details when they share. With your currently training, do you believe your grip endurance has improved such as, for example, measured by how long you can hang from a pull-up bar before dropping? Thanks. Oh I don't know, I never really tested it before. I will try hanging from the bar from as long as I can later on anyway, see what happens.I know my grip strength is not as strong as it was when I was specifically grip training, but not sure about endurance.
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Post by stuke on Sept 24, 2020 16:22:05 GMT
.. Well the answer to how long can I hang from the bar is 3 mins 12 seconds. Of course I have nothing to compare it to hahaha. It was pleasant for the first 40 secomds or so, but towards the end my elbows were not feeling too great and of ckurse it gets pretty uncomfortable just before you drop off.
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Post by mr potatohead on Sept 26, 2020 18:52:56 GMT
If you were hanging free, stuck stuke, that sounds like a very good hang time to me.
:fixed Dam autocorrect sumbitch
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Post by pierinifitness on Sept 26, 2020 19:52:02 GMT
.. Well the answer to how long can I hang from the bar is 3 mins 12 seconds. Of course I have nothing to compare it to hahaha. It was pleasant for the first 40 secomds or so, but towards the end my elbows were not feeling too great and of ckurse it gets pretty uncomfortable just before you drop off. That's a great hang time stuke, much respect.
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Post by Michael on Sept 27, 2020 23:11:42 GMT
Good hang time Stuke! I hang all the time but I never timed it until the guys on here mentioned how long one can hang thing. I won't mention my time but after so many minutes I thought it was a waste of time test for myself. I also do KB suitcase carries all the time. Now I got a new 28kg KB which makes it more fun. Also with my work duties like swinging a 16lb sledge, jackhammer. rhino, pulling/holding ropes, etc... my grip strength should never be a problem. How is it going on Your goal of vascularity?
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Post by stuke on Sept 28, 2020 5:58:27 GMT
Good hang time Stuke! I hang all the time but I never timed it until the guys on here mentioned how long one can hang thing. I won't mention my time but after so many minutes I thought it was a waste of time test for myself. I also do KB suitcase carries all the time. Now I got a new 28kg KB which makes it more fun. Also with my work duties like swinging a 16lb sledge, jackhammer. rhino, pulling/holding ropes, etc... my grip strength should never be a problem. How is it going on Your goal of vascularity? Hahaha nice work - you can mention your time as far as I am concerned, sounds like it was a long time before you packed it in! Those are all good exercises for the grip that you are doing. I don't do a lot for my grip at the moment but have in the past. Forearm training is going ok, had 2 days rest so will be hitting them later today. When I am training then I get a lot of vascularity with some really prominent veins, but I put this mostly down to the occlusion I do. I cant say I have notice more everyday vascularity particularly, but it is hard to notice a change when you see them everyday.
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Post by stuke on Oct 3, 2020 21:28:24 GMT
Its been around 5 weeks since this began, I dont have a set routine but I would say I average maybe 3-4 forearm workouts a week. I work them hard, fast, from different angles, with occlusion and it is usually pretty painful with a good pump. So I am late in taking a measurement to compare before and after. I did anyway and the truth is, I was pretty fed up that unflexed, straight armed, the measurement was barely 11.5 inches. It would obviously be considerably more with a bent arm and flexed, but let's be honest, even though I can make them look fairly decent in a photo, that is a pretty naff measurement. It made me think, is it worth it? I think this is what has stopped me before, but then I think, it is meant to be long term, more of an experiment than a mass drive. If I can put on a bit of size, great, but it was always about getting them looking gnarly and vascular. So on it goes, but damn, 11.5 inches...
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Post by stuke on Oct 3, 2020 22:42:27 GMT
A shot from just now
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Post by stuke on Oct 3, 2020 22:43:30 GMT
... and the other one. Notice the late night armchair slump hahaha
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