Open up those tight forearms before they bark at you.
Keep the stretching arm fully straight so the pull hits the forearm, not just the wrist.
This stretch targets the muscles along the top of your forearm, the wrist extensors that grip work, typing, and every curl session quietly overload. Keeping the arm straight while you draw the fingers back toward you lengthens those extensors from knuckle to elbow, one arm at a time, at exactly the intensity you choose. It earns a permanent slot after pulling sessions and heavy grip work, when the forearms are at their tightest.
After sessions heavy on gripping, curling or pressing, and during long stretches of desk work. As a held stretch it belongs at the end of training rather than cold at the start.
A straight arm is what carries the stretch up the full length of the forearm muscles, since they cross both the wrist and the elbow region. Bend the elbow and you shorten the stretch to just the wrist.
Gently, to a clear stretch along the top of the forearm and no further. Cranking the fingers back just makes the wrist joint complain without stretching the muscle any better.
