| Fast By Design Product Review: Canadian Motocross | | | | piece of string and a 5 pound weight. You attach the |
| Company | | | | weight to one end of the string and the broomstick to |
| 'Welcome to Fast by Design's first AA meeting | | | | the other. Holding the broomstick you wind the string |
| (Armpumpaholic Anonymous). My name is Smitty and I | | | | up raising and lowering the weight. This technique |
| am an Armpumpaholic. They say the first step to | | | | works great and from personal experience I found it |
| rehabilitation is admitting you have the problem. Well | | | | helped reduce arm pump more than any other single |
| since I am the only one here I will now stand up and | | | | exercise. Gripstik has taken the winding with resistance |
| say "I GET ARM PUMP". | | | | motion but removed the string and weight. Thus |
| Whew! Now with that over, lets diagnose the scenario. | | | | creating the unit we described earlier, the two grips |
| If you are like me and have a daytime gig, you | | | | actually twist against each other with variable force. |
| probably practice around twice a week and race on | | | | The resistance can be adjusted by simply rotating one |
| the weekends. Although you do everything you can | | | | grip closer to or farther away from the other grip. |
| during your motos, breath steady and avoid "Death | | | | The Gripstik unit is very compact, in fact small enough |
| Grip", you still have the Arm Pump monkey on your | | | | to fit in the glove compartment of you vehicle, where |
| back. Well friends I have great news! The FbD test | | | | mine is most commonly found. The reason for this is I |
| department received an interesting little package about | | | | usually use mine a couple times through the day. When |
| a month ago from Gripstik. Inside was a curious looking | | | | driving to work in the morning I hit allot of stop lights, so |
| apparatus that resembled two motocross grips glued | | | | instead of just sitting at the light staring ahead at the |
| together at their ends. I know what you are thinking, | | | | car in font of me, I do a one minute moto in my van. |
| "Another wonder product that will fall short of what I | | | | With about ten sets of lights on my daily commute I |
| need to help me kick the arm pump habit". | | | | get a pretty good forearm work out. The second use |
| The first step to dropping arm pump is to ride as much | | | | is before I practice. After getting into my gear I like to |
| as possible. If you don't put in some track time during | | | | stretch a bit before jumping on the bike. Between |
| the week, arm pump is inevitable. If you don't get it you | | | | stretches I will do about 50 reps of the Gripstik to |
| are: A) not pushing hard enough. or B) a freak of | | | | warm up the forearms. |
| nature. Once you are able to ride at least twice a | | | | I can honestly say that I have gotten the arm pump |
| week you will probably notice a reduction in arm pump. | | | | problem down to a manageable level. Between |
| The next step is to work on the forearms during the | | | | weekly riding and the daily use of the Gripstik I can run |
| other days. | | | | a 20 min moto flat out at most of my local tracks, |
| Freddie Spencer, a multi-time road racing champion | | | | something that was just a pipe dream last year. |
| and dirt bike rider, suggests a broomstick handle, a | | | | |