Forearms...

Capt_Apollo

i don't train my forearms. i find that with most compound exercises that require grip, such as overhead press, chest press, and dead lift, that it greatly improves my forearms and grip strength.

darrensurrey

For super powerful grip:

- Start by deadhanging from a pullup bar.

- Once that's easy switch from a standard grip to your middle knuckles.

- Once that's easy switch to your first knuckles.

- Once that's easy switch to your fingertips.

- Once that's easy ditch the pullup bar and start using doorframes.

- Win.

Yep!

holly1283

Something different, swimming.

quirkytizzy

Ummm.......ummmmm....yeah, I can't say what I originally wanted to say.

Go with what @Troublemonster said.

I think I get what you were going to say. :laugh: And that's funny!

ChrisLindsay9

Deadlft, farmers walk, trap work holding DB's or a BB, any exercise where your holding a heavy *kitten* weight.

This.

bcweisen

At my old gym they had a 20lb weight with a string tied to a piece of broom stick and you just start rolling the string up on the stick it was a great forearm exercise would burn like heck after a few times.

This is one th we used at the Physical Therapy clinic I worked at in Ohio. Also holding a regular hammer in your hand and rotating back and forth across your whole range of motion.

nguk123

ok, so I'm trying to think about this logically.
Forearms giving out, is weaking your potential on other lifts....
so would be great if your forearms were stronger, then you could max out those other lifts better...
BUT
how can you exercise your forearms more than you have been? The point of your story is that your forearms are getting fried and getting overstressed because they are being worked so much by all the lifts big and small.

So maybe, the thing to do is lift as you have been. And when you (for example) can't bench press anymore, not because you don't have the chest or tri's for it, but just because your forearms give out. take it to a machine and do a pec fly, etc. i.e. keep on working those pecs now without the forearms.

Am I way off here ?

I guess, the approach might depend on your goals, i.e. body building versus powerlifting goals. I suppose my answer kind of assumes a bodybuilding standpoint.

username_misso

deficit deadlifts off a ~3inch block coincidentally also fixed my grip issue. i didnt need to do any other accessory work in the end.

other suggestions (some great ones already mentioned) - hold your last deadlift rep for as long as you can, hang off a bar, farmers walks, hold a dumbell or plates with your fingers for time, shrugs, rack pulls, or stick your hand in a bucket of sand or rice and dig out a small object.