Can You Workout The Forearms And Grip Everyday?

[ttmett2001@yahoo.com]

I have a question can you workout your forearms and grip everyday 5 or 6 days a week straight and rest 1 day?

the reason I'm asking this because if you look at guys that do labor work ( farmers,construction,iron factory workers etc.) these workers do their jobs every day 8-12 hours a day 5 to 6 days a week and most of them have tremendous hand and forearm strength even if they cant bench press or squat much, but their arms don't seem to lose strength even though they are working them out everyday by working hard labor.

Thanks

[vikingsrule92]

In my opinion hard labor and direct grip work are completely different things. It's actually quite easy to overtrain your hands (at least for me, depending on what exactly you do) and I wouldn't recommend training them 5-6 days a week. Some people who recover very fast can train 5-6 days a week and it works for them, but it doesn't for me. Ultimately it comes down to listening to your body and determining what works best for you. Some train 5-6 days a week and some train once a week and it works for both because different people require different regimines (sp?). Determine what works for you and stick to it is what I'd suggest.

[MalachiMcMullen]

Training any muscle group directly for 5 or 6 days on end is not a good idea. Derek is right, grip work and laborious jobs are two totally different things. At a construction site you just use your hands ALOT but your not really working for a stronger grip or maximal effort, so even though it strengthens the hands it's not really grip work, just work.

[Steve B.]

I think you could as long as your volume is very low and your only useing 70 to 80 % of a given exercise.

kind of along the same lines as pavel's grease the groove idea.I would only use one exercise to work on.

[JoeGrip]

Steve Mcgranahan said YES

[Koura]

I train 5 days in a row, and then rest 2 days. First two days are max-days. Last three days i use about 70-80% weight for my max. And every monday after resting weekend i have new PR on something.

Seems to work pretty fine to me. Hands are learned to exploit really fine those 2 days to recover. These days is very hard to try really kill my hands.

Edited October 28, 2007 by Koura

[The Mac]

You CAN train everyday if you wish, moderating your volume, intensity, exercise selection and recovery factors to suit.

Whether you SHOULD train every day depends on how sucessfully you can do these things.

[superfeemiman]

You CAN train everyday if you wish, moderating your volume, intensity, exercise selection and recovery factors to suit.

Whether you SHOULD train every day depends on how sucessfully you can do these things.

Exactly. Plus, volume can be built just like strength.

[Joaorv]

You can walk everyday, but you can't squat heavy everyday. I guess it all depends on what you are doing each day. How heavy or how much total work you are doing each day.

[lloyd80s]

Yes you can, it's not done me any harm. I'd just listen to your body and If you need a break the take a break.

Muscle pain is normal after heavy sesions but if you start to get tendon pain, ease off.

Everybody is different so just give it ago

[bender]

I train 5 days in a row, and then rest 2 days. First two days are max-days. Last three days i use about 70-80% weight for my max. And every monday after resting weekend i have new PR on something.

I'm the same way. I have never progressed in any grip activity (grippers, bending, pinching) on anything but daily training. (5 on, 2 off). Just like the above quote, I have experienced that training hard 5 days a week, and then a full 2 day recovery has indeed resulted in PR's every Monday.

Important to this is to not over-train. To take your training to the limit. Frying your nervous system won't make you stronger. The only true Max Effort days have been Monday. The rest of the 4 days are high volume 70-90% efforts. Never 100%.

Then again, what ever works best for you... is generally what works best for you. Experiment. Find what works for your body type.

[Koura]

I train 5 days in a row, and then rest 2 days. First two days are max-days. Last three days i use about 70-80% weight for my max. And every monday after resting weekend i have new PR on something.

I'm the same way. I have never progressed in any grip activity (grippers, bending, pinching) on anything but daily training. (5 on, 2 off). Just like the above quote, I have experienced that training hard 5 days a week, and then a full 2 day recovery has indeed resulted in PR's every Monday.

Important to this is to not over-train. To take your training to the limit. Frying your nervous system won't make you stronger. The only true Max Effort days have been Monday. The rest of the 4 days are high volume 70-90% efforts. Never 100%.

Then again, what ever works best for you... is generally what works best for you. Experiment. Find what works for your body type.

What i have to add here, is that overtraining thing. After weeks and weeks of training my hands will be more sore. Then i rest 4-7 days. And again, new and bigger PR's come.