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Improving
wrist and forearm strength can have a tremendous
impact on both your weight training and your sports
performance, e.g. your golf swing. Regular forearm
training, however, can limit you to just a few
movement patterns.
A new
product called the AllAround Wrist Roller addresses
this limitation by allowing you to work not only
wrist flexion and extension but also rotation,
a movement that is extremely hard to work with
regular training methods.
The
question is, "does the AllAround Wrist Roller
effectively build strength in these movement patterns?"
After all, it's one thing to exercise those patterns,
but it's another to actually do it effectively.
The
design of the AllAround Wrist Roller is deceptively
simple: it's two plastic balls mounted on the
ends of a two-piece bar. This middle bar has a
resistance screw that you can tighten or loosen,
depending on how much resistance you want for
the exercise. It's this simple design that allows
you to work a large variety of wrist and forearm
patterns of movement.
You
can visualize the construction of the AllAround
Wrist Roller with this diagram (the "O"'s
are the plastic ends and dashes are the middle
bars):
O--O
By
gripping the padded center bars and twisting like
you're wringing a towel, you can work the flexion
and extension functions of the forearms.
When
you grip the outsides of the plastic balls and
twist, you're working lateral flexion and extension
of the wrists (you can try this movement if you
turn your hands so that your thumbs are pointing
up then pretend that you're unscrewing something).
Because
the ends of the roller are round, you can vary
how the exercise works by where you place your
hands and how you orient the roller as you use
it.
But the main question we need to answer is "does
this machine effectively work the wrists and forearms?"
The
answer is "yes." The AllAround Wrist
Roller is extremely effective for building wrist
and forearm strength. Regular use of this equipment
can not only greatly enhance your weight training
by allowing you to grip heavier weights for longer
periods of time, it also has the potential to
greatly increase your sports performance. Increased
forearm and wrist strength has the potential to
increase golf drive distance, throwing power and
batting power!
I've
found the unique and innovative design of the
All Around Wrist Roller to very effectively work
not only the rotational aspect of the forearms,
but also the wrists, which are very difficult
to hit with regular forearm training. It's this
rotational training that really makes the difference
in sports performance and has the potential to
take your forearm development to a much higher
level.
Click here to learn more about
the AllAround
Wrist Roller.
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