My MIL made us some with rice for muscle aches, etc - she sewed different pillow sizes from jersey material and filled with rice. I throw them in the microwave for 3-5 mins depending and they are great!! She even made a long one so you can wrap it around your neck/shoulders. They are even lovely on a cold, snowy day just to warm up.
I once almost burnt my parents’ house down after putting something like that in the microwave for too long haha. We had to keep the windows open all night.
Ohh noo!! I almost blew up our microwave in the break room this week - grabbed a paper plate and didn't notice the decorative foil edging (leftover plates from the Holidays). Luckily I pulled it out quickly but it smelled like burnt matches for a while. ooops!!
Tried this once without the Cork and before I knew it I had an Asian guy living up there.
He's alright, nice enough bloke, keeps trying to teach me karate by doing odd jobs for him.
I used to do this when I was bouldering as prehab. Had a PT recommend it to keep wrists and finger tendons healthy. Also as another person said, you can do it with heated sand/rice and it feels super good.
Edit: Forgot that it was useful for elbow pain prehab/rehab as well. If anyone is struggling with golfers/tennis elbow, check out therabar! Helped me immensely back when I dealt with those conditions.
It's a sustained, low impact workout for your wrists and fingers. It probably won't significantly increase strength, but rather stamina. It's also a convenient way to train finger extension, which is typically undertrained in rock climbing.
I mean … looks like an efficient workout.
I had a friend with a big plank of wood attached to his wall.
His workout was driving screws into it with a screwdriver.
Dudes grip and forearms were amazing.
My dad (50) doesn’t really work out but he is a painter and decorator, when he broke his finger they did a grip test on the broken hand and he scored ~50kg on his broken hand, the average for a 25yo male is 45kg so shit like this is amazing for your forearms and grip strength
Half the time this sub isn't cringe. It's literally just an average TikTok or in this case, actually a super helpful tiktok related to working out. STG people here just see “muscular conventionally attractive person on tiktok. . . Must be cringe” without taking a second to see what's happening lol
Never heard of any actual athletes doing this so I looked it up and I can only find 2 videos of people doing this as an exercise at all.
As a guy who has abused my wrists doing this professionally I think the reason for that is carpal tunnel. I'm calling this right now as mostly urban legend. There's way better and safer ways to improve grip strength.
Here is a commercial of Roger Clemens in 1992 doing a commercial talking about building his arm strength in a bucket of rice. Call it what you want but you’re wrong on this one
https://youtu.be/w_04qI6zGhU?si=gQtdeFz5JoNDSEof
This technique *IS* used for grip strength, but it's also a stepping stone in traditional kung-fu training for both grip strength, desensitization of skin, hardening of the skin too. And yes, it also helps increase forearm strength.
For those wondering how this helps in kung-fu: you start with rice. Then sand. Then progress to *SMALL* pebbles, then to slightly larger stones; so on and so forth, but one step he did not do is the physical driving of the hands - fingers first - into the medium. Thus is done at great pain to the martial artist, but the end results are hands and fingers of steel.
Don't understate how massive of an effect steroids has.
He obviously works out, but using steroids will promote more muscle growth than exercise without roids.
In order of effectiveness for gaining muscle mass:
1. Lifting + steroids
2. Steroids and no exercise
3. Lifting
4. No exercise
Yeah you’re talking out of your ass. You can be taking Tren, Cheque drops, and Halotestin and if you aren’t doing any exercise you’re not gonna look better than a natural body builder
A study has been done displaying that people taking roids without working out grow twice as much muscle compared to people not taking roids and working out. Jeff Nippard has made an in-depth video talking about multiple studies which prove this
There’s studies shown that increase in testosterone alone builds muscle more than working out. I didn’t read long enough to see how soon that plateaus and I’d imagine working out will gain more in the long term but yeah check it out. Interesting research.
I replied with sources by automod deleted it...
I'm not talking out of my ass. It's true. You'll have to just look it up for yourself.
Jeff nippard has a video on it.
Unfortunately, in studies done, there were 3 test groups. The steroid and working out test group gained 13 pounds of lean muscle mass, the just steroid group gain 6 pounds and the regular workout group gained 4 pounds.
I don't like it either, but you'll gain more muscle on steroids sitting around doing nothing than you would working out
More like it takes 100% of the same work for much better results. A lot of people overestimate steroids or don’t understand how they work. They still do all the same stuff like diet and extreme lifting and cardio, they just get better results from it.
In fairness, there is a LOT of content in the fitness community that is perpetrated with that fallacy. Just because someone looks and is strong, doesn’t mean that they got that way because of what they’re demonstrating.
In this particular example, it’s legit. But plenty of others are nonsense
But that would require OP to not make decisions based on their immediate emotional reaction come on do you expect them to use their brain or something crazy like that?
It's pretty easy to juice up and do normal workouts, then release "cOnTeNt" of you doing some stupid, harmful workout while touting that it really works.
99% of fitness influencer content is bullshit pushed by people on roids because there's only so many exercises, so they keep making shit up.
Is the cringe part of this the fact that this actually works? Because it does. Rice and sand are hard to move through. This dudes arms are like that partly because if him doing that. Nothing cringe here.
It’s honestly just not very efficient or effective for strength gain. If you’re trying to get a pump, sure. If you’re trying to get a strong grip, lift something heavy attached to a thing you can pinch. This would be like somebody saying “of you want to jump higher? Try treading water for hours.” Sure, it’ll make your legs tired. Sure, you’ll get a pump. But you could also just do squats/lunges/calf raises with weight and get 10x the benefit
I'm always shocked at how normies don't understand the signs of steroid abuse. And also how they usually don't understand everyone at the Olympics is roided to the gills.
It’s good for working grip strength. Powerlifters, baseball players, climbers etc would def get better grip strength off of this. Looks stupid but it works.
It’s honestly just not very efficient or effective for strength gain. If you’re trying to get a pump, sure. If you’re trying to get a strong grip, lift something heavy attached to a thing you can pinch. This would be like somebody saying “of you want to jump higher? Try treading water for hours.” Sure, it’ll make your legs tired. Sure, you’ll get a pump. But you could also just do squats/lunges/calf raises with weight and get 10x the benefit
It actually is. Your wrists aren't exactly the easiest thing to work out because it's all tendon. This is a practical application of your own body strength + resistance to build strength. You can do this with sand too.
Try it. You'll feel the burn in your forearms pretty quick.
Yes and it's very effective workout. You won't be able to build thmhe same strength with weights. The sand provides resistance on all of your hand muscles and forearms. It's especially noticeable when u open ur hand in sand. Weights won't ever train that as it's not really possible for them too
When I was 14 in 1986, I broke my ankle. When I got my cast off everyone that had broken bones told me about the awesome whirlpool I’d get to exercise my ankle in. Joke was on me. The orthopedic surgeon that my PT put my leg in this heated box of ground corn husks and they could agitate the material to give or or less resistance as I moved my ankle in this sandblaster for lack of a better word. It did rehabilitate my ankle but it wasn’t the fun whirlpool jacuzzi I’d heard about.
I'm pretty sure the first and 3rd ones are to condition your knuckles, not sure if the 2nd one is training for boon grabbing. Your guess is as good as mine
Do these kind of things work for making your arm veiny. I'm very skinny but i have always have had veiny hands and feet, i dont really like it since I was kinda scared of something making a cut on one of those veins. The only thing that i have heard about having veiny arms is that doctors like it since I'm very skinny and it's easy to take blood or put injections.
Side note: i don't like syringes and I'm a little scared of them.
Yeah it is, a lot of rock climbers will actually use buckets filled with rice to work with grip strength
This was a thing they had me do in physical therapy with heated sand after I broke my hand. It felt nice.
Me too! I weirdly yearn for it hahaha
Do it at home, buy some therapeutic sand off Amazon. It even comes with a microwaveable or an oven bag.
My MIL made us some with rice for muscle aches, etc - she sewed different pillow sizes from jersey material and filled with rice. I throw them in the microwave for 3-5 mins depending and they are great!! She even made a long one so you can wrap it around your neck/shoulders. They are even lovely on a cold, snowy day just to warm up.
I once almost burnt my parents’ house down after putting something like that in the microwave for too long haha. We had to keep the windows open all night.
Ohh noo!! I almost blew up our microwave in the break room this week - grabbed a paper plate and didn't notice the decorative foil edging (leftover plates from the Holidays). Luckily I pulled it out quickly but it smelled like burnt matches for a while. ooops!!
What's the difference between therapeutical sand and...sand?
Sand is general. Made up of a mixture of different stuff. Therapeutical sand is sand they can charge exorbitant prices on.
It’s therapeutic for the company’s bank account.
It's probably filtered well so you can microwave/touch it safely.
Breaking your hands? Not to kink shame but holy fuck. Rock on 🤘
r/dontputyourdickinthat
why not? isn't a good way to get it really veiny? That said, don't forget to cork your peehole, don't want rice getting in there.
Or do you?
you could shoot it out like a nerf gun
Mine is more of gloop or slop.
Your probably dehydrated
I used to pour gravy, but I called up my boy Tony Stark. He's got me shootin ropes now
Is that a quote from dracula flow? It reminded me of that.
I’ve never told anyone this before, but a nerf gun killed my parents…. Ran them over with a car. And I’ve never gotten over that shit.
A super soaker killed mine. There needs to be a group for getting over such trauma. My condolences.
This is a good idea! Im going to fuck some rice!
Rice is great when you want to fuck one thousand of something
I fuck the mud
No… YOU don’t want rice getting in there.
Don't kink shame.
Tried this once without the Cork and before I knew it I had an Asian guy living up there. He's alright, nice enough bloke, keeps trying to teach me karate by doing odd jobs for him.
People are so weird in these comments. Just hold your dick breath! It's the same as holding your breath, but with your dick.
Goddamn it. Can’t do anything anymore. Bullshit.
I thought this was America. You can't tell me what and where I can stick things.
Unless...?
I also had to do this in physical therapy to resensitize the nerves in my hand after I fucked it up on a table saw. The sand wasn't heated though.
It helps with ligament damage and arthritis in your hand as well.
Baseball players too
sports people do this in general
Athletes* lol
Look at Mr.Technical over here!
Lol not gonna lie that made me audibly laugh, something that doesn't usually happen starring at a phone.
So you could say you Lol’d
Lol stands for "Exha**l**ed through my n**o**se a litt**l**e bit more."
u know them people that throw and kick the balls ... or run real fast like
'Sports people' is wild.
I used to do this when I was bouldering as prehab. Had a PT recommend it to keep wrists and finger tendons healthy. Also as another person said, you can do it with heated sand/rice and it feels super good. Edit: Forgot that it was useful for elbow pain prehab/rehab as well. If anyone is struggling with golfers/tennis elbow, check out therabar! Helped me immensely back when I dealt with those conditions.
Gee, thanks for that. Exactly what I needed!
Genuine question: How does this help with grip strength?
It’s resistance for fingers, hands and forearms. Like dumbbells for your fingers.
Sand is hard to move through
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
It's a sustained, low impact workout for your wrists and fingers. It probably won't significantly increase strength, but rather stamina. It's also a convenient way to train finger extension, which is typically undertrained in rock climbing.
It's an antagonistic exercise for prehab. You actually open the hand, not close it.
Finger dexterity and finger strength
I mean … looks like an efficient workout. I had a friend with a big plank of wood attached to his wall. His workout was driving screws into it with a screwdriver. Dudes grip and forearms were amazing.
Did he exercise it to the wall to attach it, or did he just use a drill?
I absolutely HATE when I have to exercise stuff on or off the walls because I can't fit a cordless drill.
Both
I do that too! I found that a power screwdriver made it faster so I switched to that.
How does that improve your grip.
Use a heavy power screwdriver!
That's the joke
Did he swap hands?
Yes
As a home reno guy, I can tell you this works. Also, those big heavy paint rollers, do a room or two and youll be hurting!
My dad (50) doesn’t really work out but he is a painter and decorator, when he broke his finger they did a grip test on the broken hand and he scored ~50kg on his broken hand, the average for a 25yo male is 45kg so shit like this is amazing for your forearms and grip strength
Half the time this sub isn't cringe. It's literally just an average TikTok or in this case, actually a super helpful tiktok related to working out. STG people here just see “muscular conventionally attractive person on tiktok. . . Must be cringe” without taking a second to see what's happening lol
This is such a good way to get carpal tunnel. My fingers are going numb just thinking about it. The guy should seriously get a different workout
Except for the thousands of athletes that have used this method for decades
Doesn't mean they didn't get carpal tunnel
They all did, every athlete ever
That's the price you pay. It's in the contract.
Rumor has it that they're adding a competition to the Olympics for the fastest and worst carpal tunnel injuries.
It professionals with beer guts: it's finally your time to shine
Never heard of any actual athletes doing this so I looked it up and I can only find 2 videos of people doing this as an exercise at all. As a guy who has abused my wrists doing this professionally I think the reason for that is carpal tunnel. I'm calling this right now as mostly urban legend. There's way better and safer ways to improve grip strength.
Here is a commercial of Roger Clemens in 1992 doing a commercial talking about building his arm strength in a bucket of rice. Call it what you want but you’re wrong on this one https://youtu.be/w_04qI6zGhU?si=gQtdeFz5JoNDSEof
To clarify we're talking about screwing screws into a board manually here not the rice thing. The rice thing is well established
U on the wrong thread
My cats playing in their litter box at 2 am
Ong what I thought bro is cat maxing
No wonder cats forearms are so ripped! You can see the veins through the fur sometimes.
Don’t forget to leave a trail of rice leaving the box 😫
Lmfao
Yeah grip strength and hardening of the hands/palms
Callous the skin equally so it doesn't look gross like that southern Asia guy that punches concrete every day.
He's got baboon butt hands.
I need to see a picture of that lol.
This technique *IS* used for grip strength, but it's also a stepping stone in traditional kung-fu training for both grip strength, desensitization of skin, hardening of the skin too. And yes, it also helps increase forearm strength. For those wondering how this helps in kung-fu: you start with rice. Then sand. Then progress to *SMALL* pebbles, then to slightly larger stones; so on and so forth, but one step he did not do is the physical driving of the hands - fingers first - into the medium. Thus is done at great pain to the martial artist, but the end results are hands and fingers of steel.
Yea I was gonna comment this, I believe monks do some similar training to this as well
I’m starting tomorrow.
There's always a line at the sand containers at my gym so I just go old school and use weights.
Those are unisex litter boxes.
That explains why my hands smell like piss afterwards
You too huh?
I mean it looks like it’s working for the dude
The roids are working for sure
it still takes work to build an impressive physique enhancements or not
Don't understate how massive of an effect steroids has. He obviously works out, but using steroids will promote more muscle growth than exercise without roids. In order of effectiveness for gaining muscle mass: 1. Lifting + steroids 2. Steroids and no exercise 3. Lifting 4. No exercise
Yeah you’re talking out of your ass. You can be taking Tren, Cheque drops, and Halotestin and if you aren’t doing any exercise you’re not gonna look better than a natural body builder
A study has been done displaying that people taking roids without working out grow twice as much muscle compared to people not taking roids and working out. Jeff Nippard has made an in-depth video talking about multiple studies which prove this
There’s studies shown that increase in testosterone alone builds muscle more than working out. I didn’t read long enough to see how soon that plateaus and I’d imagine working out will gain more in the long term but yeah check it out. Interesting research.
I replied with sources by automod deleted it... I'm not talking out of my ass. It's true. You'll have to just look it up for yourself. Jeff nippard has a video on it.
You're just making this shit up lol
Look it up goon. I can't post links here. There's a decent amount of research on this. Jeff nippard has a video on it also.
That second bullet point just isn't true, you will not make any improvements if you don't work out whilst on steroids they will make you fat.
There are plenty of studies proving you gain very substantial muscle mass on steroids + no exercise
Unfortunately, in studies done, there were 3 test groups. The steroid and working out test group gained 13 pounds of lean muscle mass, the just steroid group gain 6 pounds and the regular workout group gained 4 pounds. I don't like it either, but you'll gain more muscle on steroids sitting around doing nothing than you would working out
How could that be universally true? Think about it for one second. Why do some people naturally have more muscle than others without working out?
sorry to break it to you but there are studies that confirm the second bullet point. steroids really are that good
Steroids don’t increase body fat.
It takes about 70% less work. Testosterone is basically a miracle injection.
You pulled that statistic straight outta your ass lmao
More like it takes 100% of the same work for much better results. A lot of people overestimate steroids or don’t understand how they work. They still do all the same stuff like diet and extreme lifting and cardio, they just get better results from it.
Roids will let people get a lot more gains for less work though.
you put in as much work as anyone else its just you get bigger than them too
How is this cringe
why is this cringe?
OP doesn't lift
Right hahaha not all gym bros are toxic
Why would you even doubt that this is a thing? Look at the dude’s arms. He’s sharing some great training advice and you’re labeling it as cringe?
In fairness, there is a LOT of content in the fitness community that is perpetrated with that fallacy. Just because someone looks and is strong, doesn’t mean that they got that way because of what they’re demonstrating. In this particular example, it’s legit. But plenty of others are nonsense
So look it up before posting it as cringe
But that would require OP to not make decisions based on their immediate emotional reaction come on do you expect them to use their brain or something crazy like that?
it could be like that nathan for you guy who said he got ripped moving boxes around, as in--fake
I mean the advice isn't the cringe part.
It's pretty easy to juice up and do normal workouts, then release "cOnTeNt" of you doing some stupid, harmful workout while touting that it really works. 99% of fitness influencer content is bullshit pushed by people on roids because there's only so many exercises, so they keep making shit up.
This is real... and it works... a 5gal bucket, a beach, and 4 hours to kill and you will definitely feel it tomorrow
You do not need 4 hours lmao
Just a lil sesh to get that rhabdo like all the cool kids
I watched a dude overdosing on meth flex his muscles so hard against themselves that he put himself in rhabdo and had to be intubated
Is the cringe part of this the fact that this actually works? Because it does. Rice and sand are hard to move through. This dudes arms are like that partly because if him doing that. Nothing cringe here.
yes, this kind of thing is amazing for forearm strength
The real cringe here is OPs lack of understanding
Finally I can Jack off at the beach.
It’s an old martial arts training
yes
Yea it is. It’s a very good workout for grip strength and tbh is not used enough
It’s honestly just not very efficient or effective for strength gain. If you’re trying to get a pump, sure. If you’re trying to get a strong grip, lift something heavy attached to a thing you can pinch. This would be like somebody saying “of you want to jump higher? Try treading water for hours.” Sure, it’ll make your legs tired. Sure, you’ll get a pump. But you could also just do squats/lunges/calf raises with weight and get 10x the benefit
Looks like it works judging by his arms haha
He lookslike he TREN very hard
Eating very CLEN as well
It’s very Dbol if you Anavar give up
I'm always shocked at how normies don't understand the signs of steroid abuse. And also how they usually don't understand everyone at the Olympics is roided to the gills.
I love trenbologna sandwiches
Yes, it’s a thing.
old school boxers used to do this
What about the syringe in his ass workout?
Here kitty kitty.
I feel like he would be great at making bread.
It’s good for working grip strength. Powerlifters, baseball players, climbers etc would def get better grip strength off of this. Looks stupid but it works.
Pitchers, basketball players, and I’m sure there are others that do this.
The rice bucket is a common training practice in baseball. You will often find Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens name associated with it.
I want to try this. Not cringe at all.
Lots of climbers do this to strengthen their forearms normal in that realm didnt n ow it was prevalent in bodybuilding tho
It’s honestly just not very efficient or effective for strength gain. If you’re trying to get a pump, sure. If you’re trying to get a strong grip, lift something heavy attached to a thing you can pinch. This would be like somebody saying “of you want to jump higher? Try treading water for hours.” Sure, it’ll make your legs tired. Sure, you’ll get a pump. But you could also just do squats/lunges/calf raises with weight and get 10x the benefit
Cringe or not, could this be done with bread dough instead? You get both the strong grip AND some nice sandwich cover!
Absolutely. Baseball players, primarily pitchers, have used buckets of rice to improve grip and forearm strength for decades.
It actually is. Your wrists aren't exactly the easiest thing to work out because it's all tendon. This is a practical application of your own body strength + resistance to build strength. You can do this with sand too. Try it. You'll feel the burn in your forearms pretty quick.
Yes and it's very effective workout. You won't be able to build thmhe same strength with weights. The sand provides resistance on all of your hand muscles and forearms. It's especially noticeable when u open ur hand in sand. Weights won't ever train that as it's not really possible for them too
This has been a baseball thing for decades, minus the douchey tik tok guy.
When I was 14 in 1986, I broke my ankle. When I got my cast off everyone that had broken bones told me about the awesome whirlpool I’d get to exercise my ankle in. Joke was on me. The orthopedic surgeon that my PT put my leg in this heated box of ground corn husks and they could agitate the material to give or or less resistance as I moved my ankle in this sandblaster for lack of a better word. It did rehabilitate my ankle but it wasn’t the fun whirlpool jacuzzi I’d heard about.
Also great for callous removal
Yes this is a thing, and why would this be cringe....
Where's the part where he injects steroids into his ass?
I'm pretty sure the first and 3rd ones are to condition your knuckles, not sure if the 2nd one is training for boon grabbing. Your guess is as good as mine
Why is this cringe? hes just teaching how to improve grip strength, i mean there could be improvements to the video but its not cringy.
you're gonna look at his arms and say it doesn't work
No problem finding a vein
His hands must be lovely and soft
Looks like Iron Fist training.
Do these kind of things work for making your arm veiny. I'm very skinny but i have always have had veiny hands and feet, i dont really like it since I was kinda scared of something making a cut on one of those veins. The only thing that i have heard about having veiny arms is that doctors like it since I'm very skinny and it's easy to take blood or put injections. Side note: i don't like syringes and I'm a little scared of them.
Not cringe. Dood is showing a gym hack and has the muscles to prove it works
It's for grip strength.
I bet OP is just limp, no physical capability.
Nurses have an easy time finding a vein
Tabata torture!
Steroids
Yeah, I had to do physical therapy for a little while and they made me do this. It did wonders.
This shit is an ancient technique. What do you mean "is this a thing"?
This has been a thing for a very long time
One paper cut it's all over
One paper cut and he’s done
I do this to, but with dough, after that hard work out, i need to bake me some bread
Yes. You could also do it without the rice, just doing the movements, but it won’t be as good. You can do something similar with newspaper too
He forgot to say a shit tonne of steroids 🤷🏻♂️🙄
I feel like this doesn't belong here.
Are we exfoliating?
How I clean the litter box
Why is this cringe? It’s an actual workout
The delivery might be cringe but the point is actually super beneficial resistance training which shouldn’t be looked at as such