 A list of the best exercises for your forearm muscles.
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Start: Get in the same position as for the wrist curl, but use an overhand grip to target your wrist extensors instead of your wrist flexors.
Finish: No rolling the weights to your finger tips for this one. Just bend back your wrist, hold the extended position, and return to the starting position.
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It's just as effective to do a set with one hand and then with the other. This is also useful for evening out muscle size and strength imbalances.
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Start: Hold two dumbbells with an underhand grip and kneel o the floor, facing the long side of a bench. Position your forearms on the bench so the dumbbells hang off the other side. Open your palms to let the weights roll down to your fingertips.
Finish: Roll the weights back up as you close your fingers and curl your wrists up.
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Primary Muscle Group: Forearms
Other Muscle Groups Worked in This Exercise: Biceps, Shoulders
Breathing: Breath out as you start the exercise movement, and breath in as you move back to the start position.
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Read more: Kettlebell Bottoms-Up Clean From the Hang Position
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Sit and grasp bar with narrow to shoulder width overhand grip (palms up). Rest forearms on thighs with wrists just beyond knees holding barbell. (You can also rest forearms over bench as an alternative) In a controlled motion, curl wrists up toward forearms. Contract forearms fully, without compromising form. While maintaining the controlled motion, return barbell to starting position. Do not allow muscles to relax before next repetition.
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Read more: Barbell Wrist Flexion
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Primary Muscle Group: Forearm
Muscle Groups Worked in This Exercise: Forearm
Preparation: Get into a prone position on your hands and knees with your shins on the floor in a bent knee position as pictured. Palms of hands are placed down on the floor with your fingers pointed towards your body.
Breathing: Breath in and out through the entire stretching movement.
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Read more: Kneeling Forearm Stretch
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Sit and grasp dumbbells with narrow to shoulder width overhand grip (palms up). Rest forearms on thighs with wrists just beyond knees holding dumbbells. (You can also rest forearms over bench as an alternative) In a controlled motion, curl wrists up toward forearms. Contract forearms fully, without compromising form. While maintaining the controlled motion, return dumbbells to starting position. Do not allow muscles to relax before next repetition.
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Read more: Dumbbell Wrist Flexion
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Best Forearm Exercises
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Sit and grasp bar with narrow to shoulder width underhand grip (palms down). Rest forearms on thighs with wrists just beyond knees holding barbell. (You can also rest forearms over bench as an alternative) In a controlled motion, curl wrists up toward forearms. Contract forearms fully, without compromising form. While maintaining the controlled motion, return barbell to starting position. Do not allow muscles to relax before next repetition.
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Read more: Barbell Wrist Extension
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