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How to Do Plate Pinch

Step-by-step instructions, muscles worked and workouts that use the plate pinch.

How to do it

1. Grab two wide-rimmed plates and put them together with the smooth sides facing outward
2. 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.
3. Squeeze the plate with your fingers and thumb. Hold this position for as long as you can.
4. Repeat for the recommended amount of sets prescribed in your program.
5. Switch arms and repeat the movements.

Form tips

• Start light and own the movement before adding weight.
• Control the lowering phase — don't drop into it.
• Keep breathing; exhale on the hardest part.
• Stop if you feel sharp pain (different from muscle burn).

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Exercise photos and instructions: free-exercise-db (public domain). Animation made from the real start and end photos.