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I've been bulking for a while now, hitting the 17% bf so i guess I'll be cutting next month.
It's gonna suck...
Had a pretty intense workout yesterday.
40 chin-ups
50 burpees
60 atomic pushups
70 swings (w/ 40 kg weight)
Taking breaks as needed, the goal was to see how little time it takes to clear all the sets. It took me about 50 minutes. Definitely feeling it today...
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
What do you guys recommend for working biceps when my wrists keep giving me problems (hold the masturbation jokes please, this is serious).
I tend to strain my wrists doing all sorts of workouts, but mostly from preacher curls and bicep cable curls. Also judo class seems to be taking its toll with all of the pulling and tugging for throws. Today I tried to do preacher curls and couldn't lift the bar without a lot of pain in my right wrist.
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You know what Ani? I have the exact same problem. I used to be able to do bicep curls fine around 5 years ago - but one time my wrist started hurting afterwards. I thought it would heal in a week or something, but I was mistaken. I then left it for a good 9 months, but my right wrist just can't seem to take a lot of force anymore. (When I arm-wrestle with my brother we actually have to lock wrists now insteads of grasping hands). One work-around that isn't 100% foolproof is to hold your fist vertically when you're doing your weights. My family doctor isn't very helpful when it comes to chronic conditions or old injuries, so I might ask him to refer me to a specialist. Sucks that I want to start working out in Nov, but ain't going to be covered on private health care till January.
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The only pushups I've ever done were fist pushups or on fingers. The fist ones really strengthen your wrists.
How many fingers? All?Originally Posted by darkshadow
PS: does anyone know if those wristbands actually do anything (you know, the ones you see tennis fellows wear on TV)?
-besides absorb sweat..
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First of all, are you 2 sure you're not confusing wrist pain with forearm pain? Because undeveloped forearms are a pretty usual occurrence for people who focus too much on isolation workouts and not enough on compound exercises. It's possible that they're lagging behind your curls and causing pain.
Regardless, i'd suggest forearm isolation exercises to strengthen the muscle. Even if the problem lies in the wrists themselves it will help take pressure off of them.
Start with some Farmer's Walks and plate bench plus some simple bodyweight exercises like DS suggested. After you see some improvement focus more on simple compound exercises like the bench press and overhead shoulder press and eventually move on to deadlifts. I never had to focus on my forearms myself because i was always a fan of compounds from the very start.
I guess seeing a doctor to make sure where the problem lies would help as well, if it's really the forearm just push through the pain and you'll be fine. If it's the wrists, the workouts i suggested shouldn't put too much pressure on them anyway but tread more carefully.
Are you doing a crossfit program?
@Buff: we're probably doing exercises wrong, leading to the wrist pain.
@Arch: Thanks for the suggestions, but it's definitely my wrists and not my forearms that are giving me trouble. I think barbell presses have contributed to the pain in my wrists, as I tend to workout without a spotter and it's a lot of strain to get the weights up to start. I'm going to try the plate pinch if my wrists can handle it, they look like they'd do my forearms some good.
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At no point during a barbell press is there supposed to be pressure on your wrists, either your grip or your overall form is wrong.
One of my favorite exercises to help develop forearm strength is to get a bar about 1in in diameter and 12-15 inches long, tie a thin wire to it, and attach a weight at the end of it. Grab the bar with both hands, one near each edge, holding it parallel to the floor at shoulder height, and simply start turning rotating the bar in your hands along it's axis such that the rope wraps around the bar as you do it, causing the weight to inch up. Once the rope is fully wrapped around the bar and the weight is at the top, rotate the bar in reverse. Repeat this three times. It might also help to get a pair of hand grips to use while you're watching television or otherwise or wasting time on the internet.
I think I've developed RSI in my left wrist from guitar playing, and now I have problems applying pressure to my wrist when the hand is bent backwards, such as when doing push ups. Any advice on how to deal with that?
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Like i said, ideally you wouldn't have to focus on your forearms at all unless they're lagging your other workouts.
Knuckle push ups.
Yeah I know, I've been doing those exercises before the RSI developed, but they're part of a set of exercises I do specifically to develop grip strength for chin na applications, not for wrist pains (though I do think they'd help for that as well). And yes, I've been doing knuckle push ups, but I meant, more generally, if there's anything I can do to get rid of the pain, or is this just some bullshit I'll have to deal with till the day I die?
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
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Like i said before, you can also build forearm muscle that will take off pressure from your wrists. Do this with the exercises i recommended earlier, they rely on the whole forearm and not a single point so the load will be more evenly distributed.
How would you differentiate the two?
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5-2 fingers, depends on the kind of exercise. I had to do a couple of 3 finger pushups to get my TKD red belt. Most of the time 5 is hard enough though.
Wristbands don't really do anything, they are just for wiping off sweat from your face (...I think.....>_>).
And the wrist pain thing, forearm pain feels more like the tendons pulling, wrist pain feels more like....I dunno, more "boney"...>_>.
Yet the location of the pain is still on the distal part of your forearm (towards the wrist), and not the proximal part (towards the elbow)?
The pain can be hard to describe. I'm not about to fully reproduce it since it'll hurt and possibly cause injury, but applying force to an immovable object gives my wrist a pain best described as "crushing".
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Forearm pain isn't felt near the elbow, more along the center and spread all the way to the wrist. That's why i mentioned it.
Hmm, nah, then it's pretty much localised to the distal region. Guess I'll get it checked out (maybe).
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