Posted by: () on Wed Feb 20 08:15:26 2002

Since your forearms are the key muscle group, or one of the makor key muscle groups, for generating batspeed and power what are some really good exercises for developing your forearms to be solid and strong.
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> > > since the forearm muscles are used to move the hands and fingers, I'd suggest the following:
> > > typing, so you can use a browser. Then use this newfound strength to look through and read all the information on this website.
> > > Then you may learn that your efforts would be better spent building up more important muscles. :)
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> > Now thats just dumb. You know what you could do, you can go to the libary and check out a few books on great baseball players. Read them, and then you'll see that improved strength, endurance, and flexibility played a major part in thier life. Saying mechanics is everything you should care about in hitting is a ridulous statement. You need good mechanics to be a good hitter, but with good mecahnics you also need improved strength, edurance, and flexibility to be a great hitter.
> Hey Mike
> Do some curls and push-ups, try some fingertip pushups when your palms don't touch the ground,or buy a medicine ball and throw it down into the ground with both arms.
> and since your talking about muscle, u should go down to gnc or vitamin world, and get some whey protein, and some creatine monohydrate, i heard some phosphagen hp works well.
> The Hitman

I agree Hitman, EAS Phosphagen is a good supplement. I use the Protien/Creatine combo as well