Weak wrists

Faith

My wrists are really weak, and doing yoga and stuff is killing me. Are there any exercises or anything that I can do to strengthen them?

And nothing dirty!

Musashi

www.Ironmind.com


All you need to kill wrists,fingers etc.!

rs

have you tried wearing gloves with wrist supports?

Or just wrist supports?

something like

http://www.fitnessireland.ie/product_info.php/products_id/136

dudara

I bought two of those captains of crush grippers for my boyfriend for Christmas (Nos 1 and 2). I'm seriously thinking of going back and buying the training grippers for myself. We both think they're the business, but they are intended for serious strength training people.

Tesco (no sniggering) have a set of grippers as well that aren't too bad in their healthy lifestyle range. When I bought them they were on special offer for E2 for one pack of two. They're OK strengthwise, close them fully and hold for 1/2 min on wither hand. Repeat until tiredness sets in.

Faith

I'm not looking for super-sporty solutions, really, just things to help when I put weight on my wrists. Would wrist supports help that? (Think, doing a handstand, and things like that).

Musashi

doing anything to strenghten your wrists will help!
Captains of Crush Grippers are the Biz! Most sport shop ones are about 30 odd lbs to close :-
The Trainer =c. 100lbs
No. 1 =c. 140lbs
No. 2 =c. 195lbs
No. 3 =c. 280lbs
No. 4 =c. 365lbs

I closed my number one after a days practice,most people not training won't close it at all.These are serious training tools for people looking to gain one type of grip strength.
On other trainers I'd recommend doning reps of 10 to 20 in a "snatch" style to burn up the forearms rather than repping out for hundreds of reps.Dudara, don't neglect your TKD fingertip pressups for grip strength! They really work too!

dudara

Seriously faith, the only thing that's going to strengthen your wrists is work. It doesn't have to be a lot, but if you work your wrists then they will be stronger. If you just wear a wrist support then when you take it off, your back to weak wrists.

Check out the tesco grippers I recommended, they're cheap, not very strong (suitable for someone starting out) and use them while watching telly, or at work. You don't have to be concentrating fully on using them. Any grip exerciser, even those rubber balls will help.

Musashi, thanks for all your suggestions. Fingertip pushups are a bi*ch though. But I have lost over a stone lately without losing any strength and I'm finding everything so much easier to do.

DMT

Tesco grippers = poop.
Get Captain's of Crush grippers Trainer & No1 at ironmind.com - these will strengthen your grip more than your wrist.

For wrist strength get a 2 inch dowel about 12 inches long (I use the cut off end of a shovel handle, 1.5inchs diameter, 13 inches long), drill a hole through, tie a 3ft rope through the middle, put weights on the end of the rope and start rolling the weights up and down.

You can buy something similar at ironmind here