What's up guys, Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.COM.
Here's an ATHLEAN XPRESS Video for you today on wrist straps.
And not for what you think they might be used for.
I actually don't prefer to use wrist straps for our grip assistance.
I feel like, you're better off trying to train the intrinsics hand strength.
Your grip strength, your forearm strength, when you're lifting heavy weights, you'll
improve that over time the more you take on that challenge.
But if we're going to do an exercise, like the Front Squat, we run into separate issues.
And that's what I like to actually use these for.
With the Front Squat we sometimes have wrist mobility issues that prevent us from getting
in the proper position, elbows up, elbows high.
Well, we can utilize wrist straps to overcome and I'm going to show you exactly how to do
that.
Now first of all, if you have wrist mobility issues, it doesn't mean that you're screwed
and that you can't improve that.
I actually did a video, showing you a wrist mobilization technique, that I will link right
for you here.
Watch it if you have tight wrists and can't really get into extension because that might
be the first thing and the only thing that you have to do.
But if for some reason guys do have limited, structurally limited wrist extension, they're
not going to be able to do this exercise right.
So something like this wrist strap would actually help.
So here's how you do it guys.
You take your wrist straps, you wrap it around the bar like this, I'll show you exactly here,
close up.
So you take the wrist strap, you wrap it around and secure it to the bar, ok.
We did the same thing on the other side over here.
And now, when we get into position for the Squat we're going to grab the handles, wrap
them around once and then get up on the other side of the bar.
So here and up on the other side of the bar.
You're going to want to make sure that your elbows are up, at least parallel to the ground.
So from there, now when we do our Front Squat up in this position, you actually have a neutral
grip, number one,
you don't have all this exaggerated extension that's not needed anymore.
And you can actually execute the Squat that you couldn't do before.
Ok, now, one more tip for you.
I've also got a pair hanging up here on the pull up bar.
What's that for?
Again, sometimes we can overcome equipment limitations even, if we use wrist straps.
We take and we hang them from the pull up bar, we wrap them once.
Instead of being forced to do either an Overhand Pull Up or an Underhand Chin Up,
we can now do a neutral grip version of it.
So we wrap it once, wrap once, come in here and pull up.
And we've got a nice neutral grip and it helps us to work on our grip strength there too.
So not always what it appears to be guys.
Some of these things that we utilize in the gym, can be used for other purposes.
Really for me, the goal is to make them functional to allow you guys to do the things that I
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