Dealing with a weak and vulnerable wrist?

[snizzar]

Stupidest thing I ever did was play dead arm with my HW friend while we were both drunk. I won the game but on the last punch I hit him square in the arm (like the idea of punching a wall) where all the force impacted on my wrist instead as if it were a glancing blow. It felt like glass shattered shattered inside. I couldn't hit a heavy bag for a few weeks let alone put too much strain on it, and even months after I always had to make sure my hands were wrapped before doing most boxing exercises.

Sucks because for awhile after that I wasn't able to punch nearly as hard as I used too. Even now even though it's fully healed I won't ever punch anything without wraps on full force because of the fear of fucking my wrist up again.

Moral of the story is wrap your hands to protect your wrists.

[Gavster]

Stop looking at porn.

[Azam]

Originally Posted by Churnbuckle

That's a good idea man, I should definitely revisit the idea of having a dedicated training regimen for the wrist. I started doing a ton of knuckle pushups when I first had the wrist pain throwing straight punches and it seemed to help. What kind of routine did you do?

I used a 4kg weight (dumbells).

Forearm curl: 20 reps, 3 sets

Reverse Forearm curl: 20 reps, 3 sets


You can adjust the sets according, I'd personally recommend sticking to the high reps - 20 is perfect - if you decided to do this & stick to low weight - larger weights imo aren't good for this exercise.


Knuckle push ups: 15 reps, 4 sets.

You can adjust that according to whatever you want as well.

Whatever you choose weight, rep & set wise - it's important that you do it daily for it to work - the goal is not to overwork yourself in a session just enough so that you can do it consistently on a daily basis.

[Blackened]

I thought this was the OT for a moment and about made an inappropriate comment.