How to Do the Plate Pinch
💪 Forearms🏋️ Other📊 Intermediate🏷️ Strength
How to perform it
- Grab two wide-rimmed plates and put them together with the smooth sides facing outward
- Use your fingers to grip the outside part of the plate and your thumb for the other side thus holding both plates together. This is the starting position.
- Squeeze the plate with your fingers and thumb. Hold this position for as long as you can.
- Repeat for the recommended amount of sets prescribed in your program.
- Switch arms and repeat the movements.
Muscles worked
The Plate Pinch primarily targets your Forearms. You'll need other.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the Plate Pinch slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.