I have never trained my forearms ever since I have been working out. Though I'm starting to think maybe forearms is the main thing to work out to help lift up weights, curls etc....
Cause lets say you are doing bicep curls when you are lifting it, it uses abit of your forearm right? When you bring it down, it really uses it alot if you bring it down slow. So I'm starting to think should I include forearm workout into my routine? - Will I benefit from this? Hence I got small forearms and arms and during my arm workouts I have been stuck on the same curling weight for quite some time now. Cannot progress in weight for some reason, I wonder what it could be.
How many of you guys workout your forearms and don't?
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Thread: Is training forearms necessary?
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12-21-2010, 06:58 AM #1
Is training forearms necessary?
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I used to twice a week, i worked different heads of the forarmbut now i switched to once a week and they are making crazy fast progress. good shape .
So I ask.... Why not train forarmsEach evening I go to bed with doubt by my side and each morning I wake with doubt to greet me. It ain’t easy to live with that sh*t, but it is a part of the uncommon life. There are no promises or guarantees, only an untold future with no regard for your desire for comfort or security.
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12-21-2010, 07:05 AM #4
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12-21-2010, 07:09 AM #6
Hey Bulkdozer , You use your forearm everytime you work out our lat (pull somthn heavy).
Some bodybuilders say that wide pull ups are the best exercise for your forearms!
You can also lift up somthn heavy (deadlift) it usually makes me sore as s*** .
After every set of curls I do about 8reps of reverse curls . That should be enough.In order to succeed you must fail on HIT!
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12-21-2010, 08:49 AM #9
Do standing behind the back forearm wrist rolls with a barbell. Use a weight that you can get about 10-15 reps till failure. Then, with no rest, do some seated DB wrist rolls with a weight that you will reach failure at no more than 10 reps. Your forearms will be screaming and the muscle fibers will just freeze up. If you do that once a week, you can make some big gains. It takes literally about 3-4 minutes to set up the weight and do it. No excuses.
Then, the next time you lift, do the same routine but either go up in weight or reps. Once you are able to do a few more reps for each, increase the weight. I've been doing something similar for shoulders and my strength is skyrocketing.355 Bench
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12-21-2010, 06:25 PM #23
I was being sarcastic. That picture was intended to show how bad it looks when you build MASSIVE bi's but absolutely no forearms. Granted, some peoples' forearms grow perfectly fine with regular bicep/tricep exercises...but others definitely need to isolate them in order for them to grow. The guy in the pic is a perfect example.
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12-21-2010, 06:27 PM #24
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I'd say so. Or at least, it depends. There's people with naturally big forearms that just grow great with normal compound lifts. Then there's small framed people like me that have skinny ass wrists/forearms/shins.
For us, it's necessary, because they won't grow too much otherwise. Ever since I started incorporating some exercises for them it's gotten them much bigger and I get a few comments on them.
Plus, meaty forearms when you're wearing a t-shirt looks sick._=Unites States Air Force=_
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