What if I told you that there is a way to do pull-ups that will work your hand and grip
strength better that any other exercise you can for your forearms?
I’m gonna show you how you can do it this week, with a piece of equipment that you can
get at any home depot, for about 3$. [music]
[short presentation]
Hey guys, Jeff Cavaliere, athleax.com!
As I pointed out here in the intro, we’re gonna go and attack a way to do pull-ups,
so number one know we’re gonna work a good back exercise, because pull-ups there’s
none better, and we’re gonna find a way that we can incorporate a bulletproof grip.
And one think that I think to point out when we’re talking about the forearms and the
grip strength, is the fact that… you know the forearms don’t just bend and operate
the wrist.
Well you can see if you can do it yourself, if you just bend your fingers in, you can
see how all this muscles in your forearm are activated, because the long fingers flexors
in our hands, wrist, they run all the way to our fingertips, and when we pull them they
are actually attached up here in our elbow, so you can increase the size of your forearms
by increasing the strength of your grip.
So what I wanna do is show you one of the greatest ways now.
We can later tie them back, but this is really bulletproof forearms, bulletproof grip.
But just something that you can get at a home depot.
I don’t know if you have ever seen it before, but this is the isolation that you would put
on an air conditioning, a type of tubing.
It’s just foam rubber and they sell this stuff so inexpensively for like 3$.
Cut off a piece, wrap it around the bar.
It’s already slip in half so you don’t have to worry about it . What we wanna do
is trying to work on getting these muscles in the forearm to fire up, activate them , because
we’re gonna have to hold on to their life when we do our pull-ups and I’m gonna show
you why.
You wrap that around a normal pull-up bar, and all of the sudden your grip isn’t so
stable anymore.
So when we’ve talked about doing some unstable training down on the ground, we put the both
shoes and the inflated cushions to try and make ourselves a lot more unstable.
This is what we’re gonna do here, this is the equivalent.
You rap this around, grab your normal pull-up.
Now we’re gonna really have to squeeze, because I can’t get a normal grip on this
, so I’ll have to really squeeze through my hands and engage my forearms and I’m
gonna do my regular pull-ups.
What you’ll notice right away it that you’ll probably do less pull-ups than you normally
do, because I already feel my grip failing but I can also feel my forearms on fire trying
to hold me up there.
[Exercising]
So again, I can keep going from my back to stand point, but I’m not so sure I can keep
going here because of my forearms.
And they are on fire.
So, what you wanna do is, just get a piece of that at a home depo, and put it on there
and start doing your push-ups.
You’re gonna kill two birds with one stone: you’re gonna build a bulletproof grip and
you’re gonna develop your forearms more, and you’re still working on one of the best
back exercises out there.
Guys, what this proves is: with AthleanX is not about trying to construct a workout out
of a home depo.
You’re missing the point if you think that.
What we’re saying is there is so many better ways to do things, to activate more muscles
at once.
I call it muscle integration.
If you wanna look like an athlete you gotta train like an athlete.
Nothing acts in isolation when you’re out there in competition.
You start bringing muscles in together and like to work together , the results are faster
, better , over all you’re gonna look better.
Guys, if you haven’t already, head over the athleanx.com and get the AthleaX 90 days
training system.
In 90 days I promise you that you’ll look better, feel better and act and function better
that you ever had before, because you’re gonna act like an athlete and start to function
like an athlete.
Head to AthleanX.com you guys, we’re back here again next week , remember two things:
leave you comment bellow, tell me if you ever tried this before, and if you did try it,
let me know if you like it and if it does actually can you feel a lot in your forearms.
And number two , tell me again what you wanna see in a bulletproof . We can continue this
series, its been popular with you guys.
You gotta keep rolling.
And one more thing: Athleanxx for women, program is now out at athleanxxforwomen.com, new channel,
if you wanna come over and subscribe , love to have you.
Women’s workouts here in youtube.
We’d love to have you come over and watch all those workouts too, so I’ll be back
here guys next week . Bulletproof grip!
Let’s get it going guys!
Get it grip!