Iron grip - choose a spring wrist expander.

It doesn’t matter whether you go to the gym, work with weights at home, or prefer workout training, when you come to bodybuilding, you need to develop a high-quality strong grip. This will help in the future to do all sorts of basic exercises with a barbell and your own body weight, such as:

1. deadlift;
2. Bent-over barbell row to chest;
3. shrugs of all kinds;
4. pull to the chin;
5. pull-ups on the bar with various grips;
6. and others.

To develop a strong grip on your hand, you need to train the muscles of the hand, fingers and forearm. If a bodybuilder has a lot of different means to work out his forearms, then the muscles of the hand and fingers can only be pumped up with the help of hand expander. It is for this reason that this sports equipment is an indispensable tool for every bodybuilder. But here’s the question: what specific type of expander is best to choose from the huge variety available on the sporting goods market today?

If you are new to bodybuilding and you still have room to grow, we strongly recommend that you exclusively use a spring wrist expander, since this type of device contains the maximum number of advantages and, one might say, has virtually no disadvantages compared to other analogues. Now I will explain what I mean:

For example, consider a classic rubber ring. This is in fact the cheapest version of the expander, plus the most compact, mobile and almost weightless. You can always carry the ring with you and, if necessary, train in any free moment. But you grow out of it very quickly, the degree of load is not regulated in any way, so over time you will have to throw away the existing ring and go buy a new one. And so again and again...

The vaunted tongs - a hand trainer, which consists of two handles connected by a metal spiral, have the same drawback described above as a rubber ring. But in addition to this there are also bulky dimensions and heavy weight, which, of course, reduces the mobility of the device, as well as a much higher cost, which is also not at all pleasing to the potential buyer.

You need to train your palm and finger muscles with a series of intense cyclic squeezing and unclenching from 10 to 100 times per set with minimal rest pauses between sets. What is important here is the continuity of the impact and the intensity is almost the same as when pumping up the abs and “difficult muscles”: the forearms and lower legs . It is also very effective to use the so-called isometric methods: in pauses between sets, do not rest, but tightly squeeze the projectile and hold it in this state for a long time, and then immediately begin a new set.

Well, I hope we have convinced you to buy the spring version of the device. If you are not convinced, we suggest you read the article, which discusses in detail all the types and varieties of hand expanders with all their pros and cons - perhaps you will choose something else that is more suitable for your requirements. Good luck with your shopping and useful sports acquisitions!