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Take a hand squeeze tool (or tennis ball) and squeeze it with say your left hand until your arms are pumped up so bad you cannot squeeze anymore.
Then take ace bandage and wrap it as TIGHT as possible from your wrist to your elbow. Then hold your arm above your head and hold for 1-3 miuntes (if it hurts really bad you have done everything right). Hold your arm above your head as long as you can stand it (if you can hold it for 3 minutes you are an ironman).
After your 1-3 minute hold, take the ace bandage off and repeat the procedure with the other arm.
I've almost always had Renthal Full waffles hard when I was a kid... Dad wanted them to last...
Then half waffles, medium compound on my bikes i've had as an adult...
But I've always suffered from arm pump at the track... not at our practice tracks, so I figure it's mostly stressing out... but i'm keen to know what else can help.
Being tall sometimes you forget to grip with your knees... cause your knees don't touch the tank, they're above it haha...
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Also if you heart isn't in shape, removing lactic acid build up becomes more difficult. I very simple cardio work out helps out everything and arm pump is one of them. A bicycle and a heart rate monitor works wonders for MX related issues :D
But ODI grips for me, just because they clamp on eliminating left side throttle
Just because I want to have a gif of me doing the same thing... haha... wtf
I also hate pillow tops, feels like I have to hold on tighter because they're so fat.
You've received that advice from others. Easier said than done.
Since you also expanded that to explain that you have large hands, may I suggest the Spider dual-compound grip by Serfas. I find them a little too large for me, but they might just be the ticke for you, Hulkhands.
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Boyesen Shokout
What helped me is this:
-Slow steady deep breaths the entire time I'm riding (in my nose...out my mouth). This takes a TON of practice to be able to train your body to do it when you are focused on something else (obstacle, making a pass, whoops, etc.), and even if you THINK you do it, you probably don't...at least not all the time. When I really started focusing on this, I couldn't believe how many times I caught myself holding my breath while riding...and holding your breath leads to almost immediate arm pump.
-Relax your grip...I found that even though I wasn't squeezing the handlebars very tight, I was flexing my hands and tightening my forearms, without squeezing the bars. Making myself relax my hands.
-Hold on more with my legs and knees...this allows me to ride with more relaxed arms/hands. (I always thought I did this, but, I didn't).
Anyway, focusing on those three things...and riding slower than I normally do while practicing them...has helped me a TON in the Arm pump department. I'm still not "perfect" at it, and during races I'll noticed that I'm holding my breath, or using my arms too much...but it's helped a TON.
Pit Row
http://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Moto-Related,20/Anyone-tried-Nuetech-Arm-…
The Nuetech product works best for people with big hands since their hands will encompass the part of the APE that flairs out. The flair part fits your hand better than a round tube does but like everything in life all of this is personal preference. People either love the APE or hate it with no real middle ground.
CRFracer17-Thanks for digging that link up.
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