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As someone with wrist pain, I’ve been doing all manner of pushups on fists instead of hands for years. It feels a lot better(and arguably looks cooler)
by l33t2328 4y ago
As someone with wrist pain, I’ve been doing all manner of pushups on fists instead of hands for years.
It feels a lot better(and arguably looks cooler)
- trentgreene 4y agoSame, and to any reader, make the switch to neutral grip on your presses _before_ you have wrist pain.
- glitcher 4y agoCan you elaborate on neutral grip presses? Not sure what that looks like.
- jacobmischka 4y agoEssentially, palms inward instead of downward. It's the natural position your arms are rotated when at your sides.
- trentgreene 4y agoI misspoke a bit — I specifically was referring to a neutral wrist position when pressing (be it bench, overhead, pushes) w/r/t extension. I’ve seen excessive wrist extension in these movements cause repetitive strain injuries, in my case they lessened significantly when switching to a neutral wrist angle. I’d imagine flexion also ain’t great to press with, but excessive extension seems to be way more common (and in common push up technique, the norm)
- dm3 4y agoHad to do the same. However, I do handstand push ups on small parallettes[0] which keeps the wrist in the similar position as doing fist push ups, but doesn't hurt my knuckles. [0]: https://woodpower.com/products/woodpower-parallettes-push-up-bars-xs https://woodpower.com/products/woodpower-parallettes-push-up...