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If you’re well versed with Raul (as a friend said recently, hehe, a TRUE friend) Mookerjee’s writings, you know where I’m headed with this.

OK, it’s Rahul. Raul is the Spanish version of it! ? But hey. Abla Espanol, ya’ll??

Anyhow, I’ve often written about the SAGE comment Sly Stallone made when shooting the Expendables (I believe it was).

If you look at Sly’s look in the last two Rambo series, and the three Expendables, movies, he looks bad ass to say the least.

Looks about 20 years younger than he is, and much like yours truly, NO, that ain’t make up that causes the effect. It’s a lifetime of working out and taking care of your body, and how!

And the thing that stands out MOST about Stallone? Who isn’t the biggest guy to start with . . .

. . . to me, it’s his FOREARMS.

And his TRAPS (especially in Rambo).

And if you see the side on and back shots, they make sure to emphasize those two areas of his body to max effect, and he not only looks bad ass, but he’s HUGE.

This from a man whose handprint (I think they took it in a NY museum or perhaps Madam Tussad’s, I don’t know ,can’t really remember . . . ) is SMALLER than an ex girlfriend’s of mine (who was admittedly a tall girl, but her hands weren’t bigger than yours truly, and I’ve got small hands, I’ll say that!).

And the quote?

Stallone, who “wanted to look like a lumberjack for Rambo”(hey, guess what. I once had an idea for “Lumberjack training”, an idea I have NOT yet completely dismissed! ?) said the following.

Not verbatim,  but the gist is as follows: for those of you not genetically gifted in terms of being big, the BEST thing you can do is to work your forearms and traps hard.

Add some serious SIZE to ‘em, and you’ll look a heck of a lot BIGGER!

Not to mention FEEL and BE a heck of a lot STRONGER!

The back is truly the foundation of the human body, and the grip is obviously always the LAST thing to go on a REAL strongman.

And looking at Stallone, he sure took his own advice to heart, and the results SHOW for ALL To see.

I’d add shoulders into the mix.

Massive, brawny shoulders that you can get from doing the BEST exercises there is for shoulders, for one, but also from PUSHUPS and PULL-ups done right!

And truth be told, if you work the forearms and traps hard, you’ll get mammoth shoulders anyway.

Shoulders like Boulders, as it were!

And my own personal favorite part to work obviously amongst all these isn’t the shoulders as you might think.

IT’s the GRIP.

The forearms, and as I sit here a couple of hours after my workout, still sort of unable to twist that pesky little doorknob at the front of the apartment, I feel compelled to tell you this.

My forearms feel and look as if they’ve blown up to DOUBLE their size.

OK, they feel MORE than they look, but you get the point!

And the great part is, I got a fantastic trap workout WHILE at it. Not to mention shoulders!

Truly some good advice there by Stallone, and one YOU too should take to HEART!!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Don’t forget that along with pull-ups, fingertip pushups are a SECRET weapon in terms of getting that rock solid, cast iron grip. Dan Hodge for one did plenty of these and he can literally crush APPLEs at the age of 80 plus with his bare hands! And some of the exercises he used are detailed right HERE – – Gorilla Grip.