Forearms

**TKD18** · Posted On: 3/26/2004 5:32am

How do you all strengthen your forarms?

The only things that are helping me are

: Nunchaku
: holding weights out, straining the arm
: The effects of weightlifting
: Grippers
: punching the heavy bag

can anyone add anything?

**wingchunnewbie** · Posted On: 3/26/2004 5:50am

Learn the first form of Wing Chun from somebody, do it _slowly_ (take at least 20 minutes performing it) and hold all the hand positions as tightly as possible.

**Ronin** · Posted On: 3/26/2004 6:49am

Reverse curls, that is like regular curls but instead of the palms facing up, they face down.
Wrist curls with D.Bells.

**MrMcFu** · Posted On: 3/26/2004 6:52am

Learn the first form of Wing Chun from somebody, do it _slowly_ (take at least 20 minutes performing it) and hold all the hand positions as tightly as possible.

Whenever I try this, I keep yawning.

**Ippatsu182** · Posted On: 3/26/2004 6:55am

You can also get a rope and tie one end to a pipe or a cylindrical piece of wood and tie the other end around a 10-lb plate. The movement is pretty easy, just pretend you're wringing out a wet towel. Continue this motion until the rope is completely around the pipe. After you finish, do it in the opposite direction. It should strengthen your forearms pretty well. Also you can increase the weight as you get stronger.

**Crazy Carl** · Posted On: 3/26/2004 8:02am

Do pull ups while hanging on to towels wrapped around the pole. You gripping the towel should do some good.

**Nid** · Posted On: 3/26/2004 10:16am

There are TONS of crap you can do for your grip.

What Ippatsu said...that's a biggie.

Deadlifting is a classic way.

"Hammer" (or regular old pipe) levering. http://bigsteel.iwarp.com/Articles2/HammerMan.html
http://www.bigsteel.iwarp.com/custom4.html

And...

...****...

This USED to be free. :( http://www.cyberpump.com/gripboard/

**wingchunnewbie** · Posted On: 3/26/2004 11:19am

Originally posted by MrMcFu
Whenever I try this, I keep yawning.

Great! then your jaw will be getting a workout too.

**virtual_mantis** · Posted On: 3/26/2004 11:23am

pullups on a bar that rotates when you grab it.

**Xango** · Posted On: 3/26/2004 1:24pm

Shotputs. Tea serving exercises, arm rolls, curls, you name it.

They're round, you see. Having no handle makes a trivial amount of weight into real forearm/upperbody strength training.

You may have to have hands of a certain size to make this work.