Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Workouts for Muscular Forearms

By Patricia Humfeld


A challenge that many individuals encounter is growing their forearm size to equal their biceps and triceps. You probably have noticed just how tough it is to get those forearms larger the way you would like, and in particular when it comes to have them of the same size. There is possibly the issue of one arm being larger than the other one due to dominance of either your left or right arm.

Workout routines for Building your Forearms

The first exercise is behind the back barbell curls. You should use either a barbell rack, or fixed weight barbells for this exercise. For example purposes you will be at the barbell rack. Its is best not to use the Smith machine to do this, except when you don't have a choice. Position the bar beneath your waist level to the spot where you have to slightly bend at the knees to grab the weight. Add the weight you want (preferably just the bar until after a practice set) and then bend down and grab the bar as if you were going to do behind the back shrugs. Press your arms up against your body and curl upwards as far as you can making sure you use only your forearms. Slowly lower the bar and then repeat. This is best completed x3 sets of x10-x15 repetitions.

An additional exercise is the rotating wrist action. Grab a couple of low weight dumbbells that you can do x25 repetitions of. Whilst standing up simply bring your arms up halfway to where they are parallel to the ground at a 90 degree break in the elbow. From here, rotate your wrists inwards and outwards whilst holding the dumbbells. Whilst carrying this out begin to gently lift your arms upwards and then downwards in a constant slow movement. By doing this, you are hitting all the muscles in your forearms and getting a real burn!

The last exercise is a reverse curl with dumbbells. You will need medium weighted dumbbells, and then basically perform a bicep curl with your hands facing the opposite way. These curls additionally hit the less recognised muscles in the upper arm, and that is an added bonus.

Super Set with Biceps Workouts!

Supersets are basically doing one exercise after another without rest. For instance, to get a burn that will make your arms feel the blood flowing and muscles developing complete biceps curls combined with a forearm exercise. Grab a barbell and place an almost heavy weight amount and perform the curls correctly. Use correct form, keeping your back and legs out of the movement. Immediately afterward, grab a lighter weight and perform the dumbbell wrist curls. This gives you a super burn and will make sure you are aching the following day!

Make Certain You Stretch!

Your arms are clearly very valuable to you and you don't wish to injure them. There are many muscle heads and tendons located on your arms that need stretching, and your biceps and forearms are the easiest to injure without stretching. Also ensure that you rotate your wrists around and bend them back to get a correct stretch which will keep wrist fractures away. If you notice that either of your arms are starting to get bigger then use more weight on the under developed arm, and make sure you are watching your posture and technique. Poor technique can easily contribute to under development, and even injury in your non-dominant arm.




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