Straight arm day once per week?

[bryangonz]

@mudmixer Have you tried using wrist wraps? Like: https://www.roguefitness.com/rogue-wraps-gray

 

[mudmixer]

@bryangonz No, do you find they help?

 

[bryangonz]

@mudmixer I think they do. With those style wrist wraps you can loosen or tighten them depending on the support you need. You might also just consider getter a pair of parallettes to work handstands on.

 

[walterroger]

@mudmixer Stop doing handstands on the ground and get paralletes or pushup bars. They 100% save your wrists.

 

[mayaelizabetht]

@mudmixer The fact that the linked video has oil filled arms as the thumbnail makes me say the guy has no idea what he’s talking about.

 

[solution4music]

@mayaelizabetht wow the irony

 

[mayaelizabetht]

@solution4music What? Do u even know what synthol is? 1000% clear the guy with “big biceps” in the pic is filled with it.

 

[kaysue]

@mayaelizabetht The image for the thumbnail is literally Jake Dalton during a gymnastics competition. Not sure if it was the 2012 Olympics or not. But in videos, his arms really do look like that. But the biceps move and flex, unlike with synthol arms. Why would a pro gymnast need synthol in the first place?

 

[mayaelizabetht]

@kaysue Show me a video because the thumbnail is not realistic. It’s likely shopped. You might be right but I’d like to see the video

 

[kaysue]

@mayaelizabetht

The Vice video you see it best when he's chalking up. The others don't have the best view but you can see the peaks when he first mounts the rings.

 

[jes1023]

@mudmixer to my understanding and from my amateur experience on working on rings for some years(on/off) straight arm is mainly used by most coaches for conditioning of the tendons n tissues. One can get good volume out of these more or less isometric moves without frying the cns too much. This is also my experience, like i can get more volume(TUT) out of an eg Rings-Turned-Out-hold than with a similar exercise that involves bending my arms.

Therefore especially this exercise really helped to get good biceps,triceps, shoulder and forearms, wish my Boulder gym had rings :/

 

[nbest]

@mudmixer Similarly I’ve recently started to build straight arm strength too. I do notice it helps with planche lean.

 

[snorks4lyfe]

@mudmixer Off the top of my head some great straight arm exercises are mostly done on rings. If you have access to rings, then ring L sit holds, pelican curls (careful with these, don't overload them), ring rollouts and ring side rollouts (Again, be careful), etc.

You can also work your wrists without handstands with frog holds, pseudo planche push ups, etc. Holding the straight arm of these is also a great overload on the forearms and wrists, and they have quite intuitive progressions.