The Best Forearm Exercises | 5 Exercises for Building Mass

For most of us, when we talk about our arms routine, it's all biceps, triceps and shoulders. In the effort of building bigger biceps and horseshoe triceps, we tend to ignore forearms.  Forearm exercises can help you strengthen other parts of your upper body like your biceps and chest muscles.

Most of the gym goers would agree to the idea that training arms and performing deadlifts will instantaneously train the forearms - and that’s absolutely correct. However, forearms are a stubborn muscle group and they need more training.

Always remember, it's not about flaunting forearms in your tee, as training them helps in getting a better grip on all other lifting exercises too!

Anatomy Of Forearms

The forearms consist of three, slow-twitched muscles. These include:

1) Brachioradialis – This muscle flexes from the forearm to elbows.

2) Flexors - Rear end of forearms

3) Extensors - Middle of forearms

Forearm muscles are smaller in size and they need time and intensity to grow so we need to train them separately - and properly.

It's important to emphasize that performing deadlifts do stimulate forearms muscles - however, due to the range of motion, it doesn’t involve all the three forearm muscle groups, therefore, they still need to be trained with specialized exercises.

Forearm Exercises and Equipment