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woodsprite

(12,199 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2023, 11:54 PM Feb 2023

Any idea how to avoid a painful wrist after doing curls?

I’m only using 5 lbs and am trying very hard to go slow and keep a neutral wrist. Trainers (grad students) weren’t a lot of help. I do 30 min of aerobics 3x week and 30 min strength/weights 2x week (building strength/stamina back after cancer treatment and trying to regain tighter control of my blood sugar and blood pressure). Maybe I should back off a set and go back to 1 set of 10 instead of 2 sets. It’s my 4th week and we just bumped it up to 2 sets. I thought I was ready. I feel a slight burn with the last two or 3 curls, so I think I’m where I should be.

Anybody have any pointers?

Tonight I’ve “Absorbine Jr’d” both wrists 😩

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Any idea how to avoid a painful wrist after doing curls? (Original Post) woodsprite Feb 2023 OP
Maybe try a straight bar or curl bar with 10 lbs Bristlecone Feb 2023 #1
Hire a nice college kid to do them for you. SalamanderSleeps Feb 2023 #2
+1 flying rabbit Feb 2023 #3
Maybe try a curl bar? FailureToCommunicate Feb 2023 #4
Stretching & self massage may help too. Pobeka Feb 2023 #5
Ice? Lars39 Feb 2023 #6
I use a roll on lotion with CBD and Delta 8 for aching joints...It works better than Icy Hot and AJr prodigitalson Oct 2023 #7

Bristlecone

(10,486 posts)
1. Maybe try a straight bar or curl bar with 10 lbs
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 12:00 AM
Feb 2023

Arms/wrists at shoulder width.

I wesr a brace for my elbow due to the same sort of thing.

wrist braces may help with support also.

Keep it up.

*typo

SalamanderSleeps

(666 posts)
2. Hire a nice college kid to do them for you.
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 12:14 AM
Feb 2023

Or, I have a set of ankle weights that I strap on my wrists.
I had the same problem as you.
Removing my hands from the equation did the trick for me.

Pobeka

(4,999 posts)
5. Stretching & self massage may help too.
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 10:57 AM
Feb 2023

People often forget to stretch those tendons/muscles before and after activity. For massage, just make little circles with your thumb or fingers from the opposite hand working the muscles on the opposite hand/wrist/forarm.

This improves circulation which is critical to get those cells making the "upgrades" you are asking for. Even the areas that are not obviously sore are involved.

You will need to stretch up through your shoulders because of the way our bodies muscle systems work. If you are unsure how to go about this, check around for someone who does therapuetic massage, in one session they can give you a good massage and key you in on how to stretch, but you'll have to specifically ask about how to stretch, and what to stretch.


Also -- are you eating your veggies? Exercise with poor nutrition is going to be less valuable -- are you feeding the cells the right stuff?

Everytime I've run into temporary ongoing muscle/tendon pain do to activity, it always comes down to finding the right areas to massage/stretch.

Good luck with your progress and glad you are on the "up" side of the proces!

HTH

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