What kind of exercise can I do to build my forearms?

Question

I want to look like Popeye.

Answer 1

Take something like a broom handle, drill a hole in the middle of it and run a piece of some stout string like parachute cord and run it through the hole.
Now tie a good knot on one end, and get a piece of wood that will fit through one of the plates you use on a barbell weight. Put the weight on the end of the rope and run the end with the wood on it thru the hole.
Now roll the weight up and down using the barbell plate for resistance (holding your arms straight out in front of you) start with like a 5 lb. plate and do this a few times, you will feel the burn I guarantee it.
My old instructor in hand to hand combat had us do that, and I promise you will beg for mercy in no time. It conditions your arms but especially forearms quickly (and it's almost no cost).
As you do this and your arms feel like they need water poured on the fire that burns in your muscles he would have us repeat "I am a machine, I do not feel pain."
Amazingly enough, I still felt pain, but it helped motivate me to keep going. Ah the good old days.

Answer 2

Well I don't know about forearm exercises, but Popeye had huge forearms and all he did was eat a can of spinach.

Toot-toot

Answer 3

push united stateswork more often than not your chest and a few shoulder, so no they are not very robust for constructing arm muscle, and "lady pushups" are just about vain. Arm curls are the fine excercise for constructing arm muscle, and that i do not know of a well excercise in your forearms, but it surely could need to contain relocating your wrists with weights by hook or by crook

Answer 4

sit down on a bench. rest your forearms on your quads and face your palms towards the ceiling. hold either bar bells or the bar..(the one used for bench presses) in your hands. simply bend your wrists towards you and lower them back down....many times! it works.
alternatively, try waiting tables. my forearms got really strong from lifting heavy plates 6 hours at a stretch!

Answer 5

Squeeze a stress ball. There should be a machine in your gym where you can set how much weight you want to squeeze too.

Answer 6

None really, when you work out your arm, the whole arm conditions

Answer 7

bowl a lot and eat a ton of spinach