Forearm workouts?

[Jimboski]

This is my favourite purchase of the year:

http://www.treadmillfactory.ca/p-895...d-gripper.html

That and preacher curls will get you there.

Lol, That's huge!

[Sibica]

What's with everyone loving forearm specific work??? LOL

[AudiDude]

Lol, That's huge!

You don't want no girlie sized handgripper! It is very adjustable to many different weights. Also due to the lack of angle on the grips it doesn't tear your hands up.

[HTTP04]

What's with everyone loving forearm specific work??? LOL

Yum

[Therion]

Haha nice chop job on that pic.
The problem with forearm work is that there's at least six different types of grip strength, and they can be very specific to a sport. You can't really make a recommendation for working the forearms unless you know what the person is trying to do with them.

For pure size, the usual assortment of wrist curls and extension will help, but doing a regular body-building/strength-training routine that has lots of deadlifts, rows, pullups and curls will keep the forearms advancing along with everything else. In 20 years of weight-training I have never consistently done fore-arm work, and they are definitely not lagging compared to everything else.

[Sibica]

Haha nice chop job on that pic.
The problem with forearm work is that there's at least six different types of grip strength, and they can be very specific to a sport. You can't really make a recommendation for working the forearms unless you know what the person is trying to do with them.

For pure size, the usual assortment of wrist curls and extension will help, but doing a regular body-building/strength-training routine that has lots of deadlifts, rows, pullups and curls will keep the forearms advancing along with everything else. In 20 years of weight-training I have never consistently done fore-arm work, and they are definitely not lagging compared to everything else.

Fair enough. I just find it interesting that people could be so fascinated with forearms. I've never done specific work for them either, and never will. I'm very vascular to begin with and never had the urge to train them. Guess some people do.