Negative wrist curls

[Roark]

Has anyone devised a smooth way of performing

negative-only wrist curls without a training partner

to do the positive?

Best I have managed is to place the bar on a couple of

pads on the bench I straddle so that my hands are in

the fully contracted position, then shift my hips back a bit

so I clear the edge of the pads for the lowering.

Then deadlift the bar back into position.

There must be a better way.

[Guest]

One-handed perhaps?

[Roark]

raday,

Yes, and I sometimes do them one handed.

But I have been trying to conceive of a device

that could somehow utilize a 'calf raise' movement

to return the bar upward; a sort of lever bar to

bypass the positive involvement of the forearms.

But I'm stuck.

[Jager]

I made a picture to show you how to do a forearm curl without the positive phase.  But How can I put a picture thats on my hardrive in a post?  when you hit the image button, it requires a http:, a picture off the internet.

Now that I cant post a picture.  I will tell you about my idea.

First you have a narrow table, like a foot wide and you put 2 decline ramps *the end closest to you should be the highest end of the ramp*.  You put you hand beyond the end of the table so that just your foreams are resting on the table.  then you do your negative portion of the lift.  to lift the bar back up without the positive portune just pull your arms to you so that the barbell slides up the ramps into the top position of the forearm curl and repeat.

I hope that helps

[Roark]

That idea has merit. I'll mull it over with my

R&D (rusty and dusty) department to see what

I can come up with.

If the 'ramp' has stops at which point I could

activate a lever arm it might be easier to control

than pulling the bar back to position.

Thanks.

[Rick Browne]

Roark,

  I know this is way over the top and a real dream, but I vision a foot operated hydraulic system, where at the completion of the negative, the bar rests on two jack stands and you press a foot pad and the stands rise up to your start of the neg. you release the foot pad and the stands go back down.

   That would be nice , but from a practical sense...DOINK!

[Roark]

Not a bad thought, zcor. A good idea, but perhaps

the market would be limited.

I have tried, after lowering the negative, to raise my

hips off the bench, lean forward so that my wrists

are half way in the positive movement then rock back and

flip the weight up to begin another negative. But

that can get dangerous if you slip.

You want impractical? Try this: After each negative is lowered, the bar touches a lowering device for the bench,

which then lowers until your wrists are in the positive start

position.

Too bad Bill Gates isn't into wrist curls.

[Rick Browne]

$$ MONEY $$ ... The squelching cause of  two good ideas!!

eh Joe?  

[Rick Browne]

Roark,

         Just for kicks, I checked around the internet and found some things that would work for unassisted negative wrist curls......

                 There are items that exist: such as airbottle jackstands with air hose connections..about $295 a pair. weight capacity 10,000 lbs. A foot treddle, $195. and of course your air compressor..any where from $495 to $1000.

What'da  ya say Joe? it's only money

 

[Roark]

As per the topic, negative. Plus the 10,000 lb

limit would be a hindrance...

[paul valpreda]

Joe,

I don't think it would be appropriate to share my personal method regarding the negatives here as it involves a lovely, bikini-clad assistant! How is the #4 coming along?