Wrist rolling

[Guest]

As much as I love wrist rolling, and I do, I've come to wonder what good it's doing in terms of functional strength. Sure it makes your forearms bigger, and I spose they must be getting stronger as well but I just don't feel it happening. When I'm done I can't move my fingers and I'm just about dead, but is it actually doing me any good? Since I can't make a fist after a good session, I thought it would be making my grip stronger, but I haven't noticed an increase grip strength, or wrist strength for that matter, all thats happened is my arms got nice and chunky. Surely this exercise is good for more than that, someone tell me I'm wrong.

[Clayton]

if you roll in both directions it's the best injury prevention exercise I know.

[Guest DavidHW]

In my (short) experience with wristrolling (using the Ironmind roller), I can tell you that strength increases will come *if* you use heavy weights. Rolling light weights for dozens of reps isn't helpful, at least not to me.

Also, if you use heavier weights, you tend to recruit more shoulder and back muscles. For example, last week I rolled 231 lbs up six feet and down four feet before losing the roll. On the "up" roll, I was recruiting wrists, grip, arms, shoulders, back, nearly every muscle on my upper body to keep the thing from crashing down. Heck, my neck gets so tight when I do heavy rolls, that I get headaches for 48 hrs after wristroll day!

Heavy. That's the key, IMHO.

YMMV.

David

[Guest]

clayton, what sort of injuries does it prevent?

I see what your getting at David, I'll go heavy and see how it goes

[Roark]

A friend who is a policeman says that wrist rolling

is very helpful in twisting a criminal's wrists back into

the handcuffable position. Even a smaller man who

clasps his hands together near his abs is difficult to

manuver into this position with good wrist strength.

Strong arms of the law.