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Lifting straps can be helpful for relieving stress on your forearms and allowing you to focus on targeting specific muscles. They can be especially useful for exercises like lat pulldowns and RDLs if your grip strength is limiting your performance. While using straps may not provide as much forearm stimulation, you can still train your forearms directly if that's your goal. It's important to consider the cost-benefit analysis and not compromise the effectiveness of your other movements for a little extra forearm stimulation. You have to do a little bit of a cost-benefit analysis for lifting straps. You have to do a little bit of a cost-benefit analysis for lifting straps. Lifting straps help relieve some of the stress from your forearms, allowing you to target your target muscle more effectively. Let's say you're doing lat pulldown. The muscle you want to grow on your lat pulldown is your back. The muscle you want to grow on your lat pulldown is your lats. So if your forearms are preventing you from getting some extra reps in, or to effectively use your lats during the exercise, wearing straps might be a good idea. Wearing straps is a good idea. Or with RDLs. Or with RDLs. If your grip prevents you from loading up the bar as high as you want it, then yeah, it's a good idea. If your grip prevents you from loading up the bar as high as you want it, then yeah, of course it is a good idea. Now while it is true that you're not going to get as much forearm stimulation, it's not like you're not stimulating your forearms at all. Now while it is true that you're not going to get as much forearm stimulation, it's not like you're not stimulating your forearms at all. At the end of the day, if you want bigger forearms or a stronger grip, train your forearms directly. There's no need to make your other movements worse just to get a little bit of extra forearm stimulation. There's no need to make your other movements less effective just to get a little bit more forearm stimulation.