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Any theory to why squatting would help wrists, isn’t the weight born by shoulders?

• swiftcoder 2y ago
  Even though the weight is carried by the shoulders, you are still stabilising with the wrists, and working on some arm flexibility that isn't much exercised in other contexts
  • toasterlovin 2y ago
    See my response. It was actually air squats, not barbell squats, so couldn’t have been this. Though my hunch is that weighted squats would work better, due to the mechanism you outline.
• toasterlovin 2y ago
  It was actually air squats that solved it for me, though I did start doing compound lifts with a barbell shortly afterwards. Two hypotheses: 1. I was just incredibly weak due to being sedentary and even a tiny amount of strength training released enough “get stronger” juice to my system that other muscles also got stronger. 2. Pain is a complex phenomena that relies on our bodies being properly calibrated and lack of any kind of strenuous activity mis-calibrated my pain system. I’m more inclined toward hypothesis 2. Further life experience has led me to believe that our physical and psychological systems are very much dependent on existing in a specific, narrow milieu to function properly.