How I Built Baki Hands (FULL GUIDE) — Transcript

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1. 0:00When thinking of Baki, people often
2. 0:01picture Yujiro's determination, Yujiro's
3. 0:04demon back, but what always stuck with
4. 0:06me is how the hands and forearms were
5. 0:07represented with such might and how
6. 0:09certain characters feats of strength
7. 0:11completely revolved around those. So, I
8. 0:13went on a quest to develop the biggest
9. 0:15hands as humanly possible by battling
10. 0:16against mutants and testing tens of
11. 0:18training methods to come up with the
12. 0:20ultimate way to thicken them, completely
13. 0:22transforming my body in unrecognizable
14. 0:24fashion to mimic a fraction of those
15. 0:26characters power. In this video, I will
16. 0:28not talk about how to develop those
17. 0:30feats of strength with purely a body
18. 0:31hypertrophic aspects. I might leave that
19. 0:33for another one if requested enough. To
20. 0:35build extreme physical prowess requires
21. 0:38extreme action. I have trained my hands
22. 0:40every day with low intensity and high
23. 0:41volume exercises such as pronation and
24. 0:43rising through a judo belt or an elastic
25. 0:46band for five sets of 60 reps each
26. 0:48minimum, which will heavily target the
27. 0:50thumb, especially if doing a thumb
28. 0:51flexion every rep on the way up. This is
29. 0:54probably the cheapest way of growing
30. 0:55humongous thumbs along with the rubber
31. 0:57egg and the thumb piston. Same thing for
32. 0:59those two. You will want to do a high
33. 1:00number of sets for a minimum of four
34. 1:02sets a day. This will be a recurring
35. 1:04theme in this video. Pretty much each
36. 1:06tool I will talk about will require an
37. 1:08insane amount of reps like the thumb
38. 1:09war. When I use this tool, I can go in
39. 1:11the hundreds of reps, sometimes up to 2
40. 1:13to 300 repetitions. This pumps your
41. 1:16thumb muscles in a way I've never felt.
42. 1:17Another highly efficient tool to grow
43. 1:19the thumbs are hand grippers. There are
44. 1:21a few ways to use them which will target
45. 1:23the different muscle each, but to grow
46. 1:24the thumb interossei, which is the
47. 1:26muscle between the thumb and index, you
48. 1:27will want to place the gripper between
49. 1:29those two fingers and pinch as hard as
50. 1:31you can. Either doing a static hold to
51. 1:33failure or repetitions with a lighter
52. 1:34one as this muscle is usually weaker
53. 1:36than the others. Because of that, I like
54. 1:38to use the thumb war in that sideways
55. 1:40pinching motion. I very specifically
56. 1:42just spam small reps at the bottom
57. 1:44portion of the range. It has given me
58. 1:45the most disgusting of thumb bumps in
59. 1:47both the interossei and the big meaty
60. 1:49part you see. So, it is a two-in-one
61. 1:51exercise really. To train that meaty
62. 1:53part of the thumb, you will want to take
63. 1:55a gripper again and pinch it with the
64. 1:56tip of your thumb rather than doing it
65. 1:58from the side. Again, high reps to
66. 2:00failure. The cheapest method to grow
67. 2:02your whole hands, which resembles
68. 2:03Yanagi's poison hand, is the rice bucket
69. 2:05workout. I have made whole videos
70. 2:07covering the tens of exercises possible
71. 2:09to grow hands with rice. You should take
72. 2:11a look at them and follow the footsteps
73. 2:13of Yanagi, just like I did. Now that I
74. 2:15have covered the main thumb growth
75. 2:16methods, let's talk about the pinky pad.
76. 2:18It is an extremely thick part of the
77. 2:20hand as well, which you shouldn't
78. 2:21neglect. The first method to train it
79. 2:23will be to use hand grippers again, but
80. 2:25this time in the intended way. High
81. 2:27reps, high volume. It will also make the
82. 2:29palm muscle respond really well, but I
83. 2:31do not like the feeling of hand grippers
84. 2:32to train those deep palm muscles in the
85. 2:34hand. You see, as the bars of the
86. 2:36gripper are not parallel, they put much
87. 2:38more emphasis on the pinky pad muscle,
88. 2:40which neglects the development of the
89. 2:42opposite side of your hand. I prefer
90. 2:44using the Bruce Lee machine as the bars
91. 2:45are parallel and give you an even
92. 2:47pressure on your whole hand structure.
93. 2:49Now, if you cannot get your hands on
94. 2:50this tool, I recommend the simple gym
95. 2:52variant of taking a D handle made of
96. 2:54steel and replicate the movement I am
97. 2:56showing. You will want to roll your
98. 2:58fingers back as far as you can on the
99. 3:00eccentric phase, as it stretches the
100. 3:01muscles of the hand in the most perfect
101. 3:03way possible. Again, use light weights
102. 3:06and go in the hundreds of reps, and the
103. 3:07same goes for the Bruce Lee machine, of
104. 3:09course. Hand thickness is not built with
105. 3:11heavy sets of 12 like any other muscle.
106. 3:13They require extremely high volume. Just
107. 3:15look at the construction workers, the
108. 3:17farmers. They have massive hands not by
109. 3:19performing heavy hay bale or cement bag
110. 3:21lifts, but by repeating the same small
111. 3:23movements hundreds, thousands of times
112. 3:25through the day. Peeling a potato,
113. 3:27painting a wall. Repeat those actions
114. 3:29enough times and you will end up with
115. 3:30thick hands and even thick tendons,
116. 3:32which is partially why the left hand
117. 3:33champion of Belgium people beat me at
118. 3:35the start of my journey. I couldn't do
119. 3:37anything against the steel tendons he
120. 3:39had developed after years of
121. 3:40construction painting. But back to the
122. 3:42point. You can also target the pinky pad
123. 3:43with hand grippers only using your pinky
124. 3:46and ring finger. Really efficient and
125. 3:47extremely precise work. Now, I have
126. 3:49never really targeted my pinky pads
127. 3:51through isolation. They have grown so
128. 3:53big mostly because I do a ton of wrist
129. 3:55frictions, which is a forearm exercise.
130. 3:57But by using some very specific arm
131. 3:59wrestling handles, they will respond
132. 4:00insanely well. So, if you want to do a
133. 4:02two-in-one pinky pad and forearm growth
134. 4:04exercise, you need to use a wrist
135. 4:06wrench. This tool is actively trying to
136. 4:08roll out of your hands by the way it's
137. 4:09designed. You have to not only curl it
138. 4:11with your wrist, but also grip it with
139. 4:13all your strength so it doesn't slip
140. 4:15out. It targets the pinky pads,
141. 4:16forearms, and even fingers so well that
142. 4:18there is no question asked why arm
143. 4:20wrestlers use it so much. After building
144. 4:22big meaty claws, you will need the
145. 4:24finger thickness to follow. Growing your
146. 4:25fingers is a much harder and lengthier
147. 4:27process, but it is possible. This is a
148. 4:29ring I was able to put on all fingers,
149. 4:31even my thumbs at the start of my
150. 4:32journey, but now it would be impossible
151. 4:34for me to wear it. The actual bones of
152. 4:36my fingers have grown, and my theory is
153. 4:38that it is because of all the stress and
154. 4:40pressure I applied on my bones and
155. 4:41joints through the years. Many of you
156. 4:43may already know that I have also gained
157. 4:45more than an inch on my wrist because of
158. 4:46the pronation and rising routine, but
159. 4:48finger training will be very different.
160. 4:50It will require a lot of holds in
161. 4:52uncomfortable positions and shocks to
162. 4:54the finger joints. If you look at
163. 4:55climbers, which have the thickest
164. 4:56fingers of any sports, this is exactly
165. 4:58what they do on a daily basis,
166. 5:00conditioning their fingers to get
167. 5:01stronger by clinging to a mountain's
168. 5:03tightest cars, mapping the stone with
169. 5:05their fingertips, finding anchor in the
170. 5:07dust of invisible seams.
171. 5:10As fingers contain no muscle but purely
172. 5:12tendons, we will have to change our
173. 5:13approach by doing static holds or heavy
174. 5:15low rep training only as this is how
175. 5:17tendons adapt and get thicker. Either on
176. 5:19a tree, a gritty surface, a rock,
177. 5:22anything uncomfortable does the job.
178. 5:24Time under tension will be the key here.
179. 5:26Long holds to failure or straight up
180. 5:28starting climbing as a hobby. Carrying
181. 5:30heavy objects would also work. The
182. 5:31possibilities are almost endless with
183. 5:33all the different angles you could
184. 5:34attack with various shape of tools or
185. 5:36surfaces you may find. I might need to
186. 5:38make a whole video dedicated to that
187. 5:40subject because of how vast it is.
188. 5:42Finger push-ups are also great to
189. 5:43increase their thickness and strength,
190. 5:45but they're not really beginner-friendly
191. 5:46if you're starting with thin, weak
192. 5:48fingers, just like I did back then. So,
193. 5:50I will give you some much easier
194. 5:51alternatives, like specific arm
195. 5:53wrestling handles that put pressure at
196. 5:54the tip of your fingers. It is easy to
197. 5:56progressively overload when using a
198. 5:58pulley. You can also craft them yourself
199. 5:59with just a piece of wood and a strap.
200. 6:01Plate wrist curls are another very good
201. 6:03way to thicken them, especially their
202. 6:05joints, as it puts immense pressure on
203. 6:07them. I do 6 to 12 reps with those. You
204. 6:09instantly feel the pressure in your
205. 6:10phalanx after one set, and you can also
206. 6:12see them increase in size instantly. If
207. 6:14the big plates are too heavy for you,
208. 6:16using both hands at the same time would
209. 6:18be a better idea than using small ones.
210. 6:20As the longer the plate is, the further
211. 6:21the center of mass is, and the more
212. 6:23pressure is applied on the tip of your
213. 6:25fingers, because of the leverage it
214. 6:26creates. This allows you to use that
215. 6:28exercise at its fullest potential. Now,
216. 6:30let's cover an interesting topic, which
217. 6:32is the callus hand. You see, after doing
218. 6:34so much pronation and rising every day,
219. 6:36my hands were starting to form a callus
220. 6:38in an unusual place. The friction of the
221. 6:40belt against my skin toughened that part
222. 6:42to the point I grew what appears to be
223. 6:43lizard scales. They were so tough, I
224. 6:45wouldn't feel anything touching me there
225. 6:47anymore, because of how hard they had
226. 6:48become. If you're crazy enough to follow
227. 6:50a guide on how to grow back your hands,
228. 6:52I figured this would be of interest for
229. 6:54you as well. If you want to replicate
230. 6:56that hand roughness, you need to do
231. 6:57pronation with a judo belt or a strap. I
232. 6:59don't think an elastic band will work
233. 7:01for this, as it is too soft. And I have
234. 7:03to warn you that this will take time. I
235. 7:05remember my callus started getting
236. 7:06massive only at around day 60. It can
237. 7:08also get a bit painful if it cracks
238. 7:10open, which is why I got rid of it. You
239. 7:12could take this a bit further by
240. 7:13applying dog paw medicine on your hands,
241. 7:15like some fellow madman did, but I will
242. 7:17not express myself on that subject, as I
243. 7:19haven't tried it myself yet. Now, there
244. 7:21are some obscure muscles in the hands,
245. 7:23which can give you an extra defined look
246. 7:25that not many know about, which are the
247. 7:27interossei muscles. We have already
248. 7:28talked about the thumb ones, but now
249. 7:30let's focus on the fingers interossei.
250. 7:32When well-developed, they can either
251. 7:33appear in the form of bumps or lines at
252. 7:35the back of your hands, between your
253. 7:37metacarpals. The last time I talked
254. 7:38about them, I said that I trained those
255. 7:40muscles by doing a yapping motion with
256. 7:42the forearm machine. But, by going
257. 7:44deeper into research of the hand muscle
258. 7:46lore, I found an even better way to
259. 7:48target them. Their function is to spread
260. 7:50the fingers apart and pull them back.
261. 7:51So, I figured I would use those little
262. 7:53rubber rehab pieces to train them.
263. 7:55Problem is, you only get tension when
264. 7:56spreading them apart. So, to target them
265. 7:58fully, we must use the rice bucket once
266. 8:00again. By spreading your fingers in the
267. 8:02rice and pulling them back, you will
268. 8:04fully target those deep structural hand
269. 8:06muscles. High volume and high rep sets
270. 8:08will also be required to develop those.
271. 8:10If you want the full weekly hand growth
272. 8:12program, you can find it in my school,
273. 8:14first link in the description, along
274. 8:16with all of my gym splits, advanced neck
275. 8:18and forearm programs, and diet plan.
276. 8:20I've had insane testimonials from guys
277. 8:21in my community that have turned into
278. 8:23literal monsters listening to my advices
279. 8:25and following the routine. The free
280. 8:27advices on my YouTube is already
281. 8:28top-tier, but what's in there will
282. 8:30really make the difference and help you
283. 8:31bypass any problems you're going to
284. 8:32face. So, if you also want to build a
285. 8:34backy physique, join us.