http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsfPiWIoA4I
Looking for exercises to challenge your grip? Look no further than fat bar training to challenge your hand, wrist and finger grip and take them to new heights. Fat bar is exactly what it sounds like ; a bar that is fatter than your typical barbell, dumbbell or cable accessory.
The thicker bar provides a different and unique stimulus to your workouts Ð including testing the muscles of your fingers, hands, wrists and forearms and forcing them to respond by getting stronger! In addition to the fat bar, there are additional grip training protocols and exercises that you can use to really take your results to the next level. You can learn more about those here at https://usplabsdirect.com/blog/how-to-increase-grip-strength.html.
Experiment with different size grips to see which work best for your particular grip goals. Different sized bars and different exercises all will have different impacts. In this particular exercise – the fat bar cable curl – not only does the fat bar have a positive impact on your grip strength, it also uniquely trains your biceps muscles; double score!
Fat bars can be difficult to find so if your gym doesn’t have any try putting in a request and ask your gym to invest in some. They typically aren’t that expensive for a commercial gym that has hundreds or thousands of members.
If you simply can’t get your hands on a fat bar (pun intended!) then you can use towels and wrap them around a barbell, dumbbells or cable attachments in order to get your desired grip thickness.
Just be careful that the towel is secure and your grip is safe. Always use light weight when first figuring out a towel grip. This advice applies to any new exercise as well. You always want to tread lightly and then ramp up once you know your training is safe. We would like to take this opportunity to give a big shout out to Thomas Gibson for his flawless demonstration of the cable fat bar curl!
