How to Relieve Wrist Pain and Protect them while doing Floor Exercises.
Published by TE on Mar 27th 2023
Making sure your wrists are healthy and have full range of movement is very important as it is one of the most used joints in a wide variety of exercises.
1. Slowly Increase your Load
Not overdoing it when you are increasing your weight or trying to do more of a certain workout is important because you do not want to surprise your body or your joints with a weight you may not be ready for at the time.
2. Cushion your hands
Making sure your hands have a form of cushioning under them like a folded up towel or an actual mat or cushion is a great way to reduce the load on your wrist and give your hands better balance.
3. Fan Out your fingers
Make sure that when you are doing any hands on the floor exercises like pushups, that your fingers are fanned out as to help with balance and to distribute the weight of your body without placing too much stress on one area of your hand.
4. Strengthen your wrist
If you are doing an exercise that strengthens one side of your wrist, you need to make sure that you are evening it out when another exercise to strengthen out the other side of your wrist also, as to make sure that the entire joint is healthy and strong.
5. Keep Moving
Keeping your wrist moving to make sure that you have a full range of motion and wont get locked up any any crucial moment whether it be an exericse or some other activity that requires your wrist to hold up any form of weight.