Pros and WRIST WRAPS!

[Bluto]

I'm watching BATTLE FOR OLYMPIA video right now, and pretty much every pro use wrist wraps! what gives?
they've stopped using gloves, but they've brought out the wrist wraps, nearly every one of them.

[Overload]

Straps?

[Bluto]

[chainsaw]

Well, I guess the tendons and forearms can't handle the weight they are liftin.

[kyomu]

Well, I guess the tendons and forearms can't handle the weight they are liftin.

i agree.
and also they use it as a stabilizer.

[Hurricane Beef !]

I don't know about wraps, but straps . . . yes! Here are the best on the market.

http://www.power-grips.com

The Beef

[JOEBEAST]

I THINK YOU MEAN LIFTING STRAPS.YOU CAN USE MORE WEIGHT AND REPS WITHOUT YOUR GRIP GIVING OUT=MORE SIZE-SMALLER FOREARMS

[kyomu]

I THINK YOU MEAN LIFTING STRAPS.YOU CAN USE MORE WEIGHT AND REPS WITHOUT YOUR GRIP GIVING OUT=MORE SIZE-SMALLER FOREARMS

mmmmm.....thats right and  i am thinking about it a lot since my forearms are weak...

[BigWyte]

Its hard to hit some exercises hard if the forearms are the weak link.....shrugs, dumbell rows, etc....

[buffbodz]

I'm watching BATTLE FOR OLYMPIA video right now, and pretty much every pro use wrist wraps! what gives?
they've stopped using gloves, but they've brought out the wrist wraps, nearly every one of them.

They take great pressure off the wrists.  Especially when doing bicep work.  You can't go heaver than the corresponding joint, but with support you can.

[kyomu]

Its hard to hit some exercises hard if the forearms are the weak link.....shrugs, dumbell rows, etc....

The avatar guy is you?

[Captain Equipoise]

Does anyone have a link for the GASP ones pictured up above.. ?

[Big N]

I'd say to sell more "products". Before in every single damn picture in a musclemag all you found bro on the "PROs" stupid gloves for light weight workouts? Or how about them high soccer socks?

[wes mantooth]

I THINK YOU MEAN LIFTING STRAPS.YOU CAN USE MORE WEIGHT AND REPS WITHOUT YOUR GRIP GIVING OUT=MORE SIZE-SMALLER FOREARMS

no...hes talking about something different....like this:

http://www.power-systems.com/nav/closeup.aspx?c=7&g=1558&Pro/Wrist/Wraps

helps stabilization

[Palpatine Q]

I dunno about you guys but my back is stronger than my hands, so I use straps.

I don't think they effect forearm growth at all, because they take over AFTER my grip fails. Plus my forearms are just fine size-wise.

[Pollux]

I'm watching BATTLE FOR OLYMPIA video right now, and pretty much every pro use wrist wraps! what gives?
they've stopped using gloves, but they've brought out the wrist wraps, nearly every one of them.

The only mofo's that still use gloves are Ronnie Coleman and Chris Cormier.

[Big N]

I dunno about you guys but my back is stronger than my hands, so I use straps.

I don't think they effect forearm growth at all, because they take over AFTER my grip fails. Plus my forearms are just fine size-wise.

Lay off the porn bro

[BigWyte]

The avatar guy is you?

Yea that is I

[j3di3]

wrist wraps are very useful they take alot of pressure off the wrists during the pressing movements.

here are some good ones
http://www.inzernet.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=WRAPS_IRON_WRISTZ

[kyomu]

Yea that is I

Very Good!Better compete!

[Bluto]

Does anyone have a link for the GASP ones pictured up above.. ?

I just googled for "wrist wraps" and they come up

[onlyme]

I just googled for "wrist wraps" and they come up

I take one knee wrap and cut it in half for wrist wraps.  There is velcro on one end and velcro in the middle.  So when you cut it, it will have a piece of velcro on one end. Works great and they are wider

[benchmstr]

i don't know about yall,but when i train biceps i am not training forearms,training forearms should not be a compound movement as a bicep/tricep bi-product 

anybody who says wrist raps hurt performance officially is a jackass

[Bluto]

i don't know about yall,but when i train biceps i am not training forearms,training forearms should not be a compound movement as a bicep/tricep bi-product 

anybody who says wrist raps hurt performance officially is a jackass

You saying you use wrist wraps? 

[Patrik15]

i usually use them for bicep and shoulder work towards the end when i add that poundage for biceps on a straight bar ill curl 65 for 15 than 85 for 12 than i use em for 95 x 8 than 105 x 6 and thats it...