How did I end up like this ?
Being a 13 year old kid , that could manage to deal with older kids and still win was the first experience of armwrestling I had. This lead to a lot of excersice in armwrestling on normal tables
during breaks in school. Anyhows when I finished the elementary school, the armrestling was forgotten for many years.
At a martial art training camp (1999 I think), a sparring parter commented my forearms were big. He also said he had problems getting out of my grip when I grabbed his wrists. This was the first time I noticed that I had big forearms and a good grip. Still I didnt think of strength training and related excersice as something that could be fun.
Somewhere in 2003 I decided to start to excercise trying to get rid of "extra baggage". This was the starting point for my strength straining. I started to try to get a bit stronger. Found out that this kind of excersice CAN be fun, it is just matters to find how it can be fun for you. During this training, I figured that most of the times I never needed any straps to hold the weights and so on. Still I was not connecting this with arm and grip strength.
The final motivation to arm training came when I was at my friends place and a guy were there having some kind of "spring" as I called it. I was informed that those were not "springs" they were heavy duty grippers, not for weak dudes. He told me stuff about it and suggested me to try one. Sure I tried, and mashed the "feather". The guys reaction was that he might have given me wrong gripper -"Hey your arent supposed to close that one !". He told me that the one he lended me was the one he was trying to close for a long time (CoC #2), and he wanted to know if I was working out with grippers and pinching plates. He convinced me that I should do that, since I havent excersiced with grippers etc I might be able to develop good power.
All the training was fun, still I felt I was missing someting. Perhaps trying to use to for something. A while I was thinking about perhaps competing in gripping contest etc. But that never happened. I moved from a small city to a little bit bigger city. For being a swedish place, its a "bigger" city. I know it might be a small town in the big world =) When I moved to this new place, I decided that I would make use of the training somehow. This was how I decided to try armwrestling. Unfortunately, there was no armwrestling club in this "big" city. I was asking around on internet, got informed that the closest club was in a small town north of the city I live in. How funny, I moved to a bigger place to get more opportunities by being closer to stuff. But the stuff I wanted was out in the country yard =)
So for now , I am going to the club every Tuesday afternoon to practice armwrestling on real tables. I got hooked on it more or less instantly. I felt this was the stuff !!! =)
during breaks in school. Anyhows when I finished the elementary school, the armrestling was forgotten for many years.
At a martial art training camp (1999 I think), a sparring parter commented my forearms were big. He also said he had problems getting out of my grip when I grabbed his wrists. This was the first time I noticed that I had big forearms and a good grip. Still I didnt think of strength training and related excersice as something that could be fun.
Somewhere in 2003 I decided to start to excercise trying to get rid of "extra baggage". This was the starting point for my strength straining. I started to try to get a bit stronger. Found out that this kind of excersice CAN be fun, it is just matters to find how it can be fun for you. During this training, I figured that most of the times I never needed any straps to hold the weights and so on. Still I was not connecting this with arm and grip strength.
The final motivation to arm training came when I was at my friends place and a guy were there having some kind of "spring" as I called it. I was informed that those were not "springs" they were heavy duty grippers, not for weak dudes. He told me stuff about it and suggested me to try one. Sure I tried, and mashed the "feather". The guys reaction was that he might have given me wrong gripper -"Hey your arent supposed to close that one !". He told me that the one he lended me was the one he was trying to close for a long time (CoC #2), and he wanted to know if I was working out with grippers and pinching plates. He convinced me that I should do that, since I havent excersiced with grippers etc I might be able to develop good power.
All the training was fun, still I felt I was missing someting. Perhaps trying to use to for something. A while I was thinking about perhaps competing in gripping contest etc. But that never happened. I moved from a small city to a little bit bigger city. For being a swedish place, its a "bigger" city. I know it might be a small town in the big world =) When I moved to this new place, I decided that I would make use of the training somehow. This was how I decided to try armwrestling. Unfortunately, there was no armwrestling club in this "big" city. I was asking around on internet, got informed that the closest club was in a small town north of the city I live in. How funny, I moved to a bigger place to get more opportunities by being closer to stuff. But the stuff I wanted was out in the country yard =)
So for now , I am going to the club every Tuesday afternoon to practice armwrestling on real tables. I got hooked on it more or less instantly. I felt this was the stuff !!! =)
posted by arm nerd at 03:47
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home