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Whats better for forearms, reverse curls or hammer curls?

  1.  07-07-2009  08:20 PM
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    Whats better for forearms, reverse curls or hammer curls?


    I don't know if I should do both, because I don't want to over work my muscles.



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    I have great success doing a set of farmers walk with what ever you can handle for a walk around the entire gym, followed by reverse curls. Forearms get a wicked pump.

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    Overall, switching fire-arm postion and trigger points for my AR and M4 were the things that have given me the best gains with forearms. But, I will add that Hammer DB-Curls coupled with dropped-suicide sets with isolation-wrist curls will do the trick.

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    anything that requires squeezing the hand or curling the wrist

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    Rotation of both, plus BB wrist curls.

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    reverse curls give my forearms a real good burn

  7.  07-08-2009  08:16 PM
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    Do them both. Rotate your exercises for variety and using different angles.

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