How do I stop my wrists from hurting while doing pushups?

[OrdinaryGentleman]

I recently went from 20 pushups to around 59 in 1 month, but my wrists still kill me every time i finish. Please leave five knuckle shuffle jokes aside. Any advice? I have been doing variations but it hurts... even the knuckle push ups

[Shaft50]

Strengthen the forearms and muscles in your wrists... I used to have the same problem and then I started two different exercise and I used stuff I found at home:
1. When you do your bicep curls, roll out the dumbbells to your fingertips on the down swing;
2. With hammer grip arm curls, get as much extension on the upward and downward arc extremities;
3. Another exercise, using a short length of broom stick (about 1ft long), drilling a hole in the middle, tying a string to the centre through the hole and on the other end tying a 1kg (2lb) weight. With your arms stretched straight out in front of you, using your wrists and forearms, reel the weight up and lower it back down to the ground... feel the burn! :-)
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[NearlyNapping]

I've never heard of this problem. I've done tons of push ups. In wrestling practice we did well over a hundred a day. I was on the physical fitness team doing tons of push ups also. I've just never heard of this.

I'm assuming this is not muscular pain. To me that means you should back off ASAP until you figure out what it is. You don't want to do long term injury.

I'd back off to the 20 you were doing before and see if it's OK. If it's not, you might have already done some injury. If it's OK then very slowly increase the number, paying close attention to detail.

You can try some stretching. Like an isometric stretching. Try push ups on a soft mat. Try it using dumb bells (gives you better range also). If it continues to hurt then back the hell off.

[OrdinaryGentleman]

I did some stretching and stuff before hand. Nice wrestling is cool i used to do ju-jitsu until about a year ago... anyways stretching and strengthening seem to really help in this aspect

[NearlyNapping]

Wrestling was grueling. :P The coaches didn't let up. But then your opponent isn't going to let up either.

Just be careful. Take care of yourself and avoid long term injuries. Trust me, when you get older, all those old injuries are going limit what you do, and you're going to think it sucks. Life is a marathon, so pace yourself.

OK, enough lectures :P

[Tiffany07]

More practice I guess..
When I first started, I couldnt even do one!
But the more I did em.. The more I got used to them..
You'll do fine..
But Push up bars and handles may come in handy if the pain proceeds :)
Best of luck

[BelleGirl21]

Stretch your wrists daily. Do like 30 pushups and then take a 15 second break to bend your wrists the other direction then do 30 more. Other than that try wrist bands.

[Hans222]

This may help me too... I have the problem while exercising with weights. Will try the 15 secs break trick too :D

[BelleGirl21]

Thanks for mh. Has it gotten any better? 💚

[OrdinaryGentleman]

Mhmm... now I am doing decline push ups so it is much more difficult:)
Also doing variations helped as well.

[BelleGirl21]

Oh man I can't do more than 10 decline pushups!

[OrdinaryGentleman]

Best part is is I am using that pull up bar I got and I am switching up the variation...*its the eye of the tiger thats the dream of the fight* duhnuhduhduhdhududu

[BertMacklinFBI]

take a break. your wrists will eventually get used to it.

[OrdinaryGentleman]

That pull up bar just came in, it has hella sorts of positions... just a bitch to set up tho since instructions suck

[WeaponZero]

Do them on your fists or use pushup stands. The strain comes from. The pressure exerted on your wrist when bent in the flat position and is not healthy.

[OrdinaryGentleman]

Do you think a wider stance will help?

[WeaponZero]

For me it helped a little bit but ultimately the only real fix was what I mentioned above; Fists or pushup stands. Also I felt more chest activation when doing it from the fists anyway.

[meowcow]

Do pushups on a soft surface, like a mat. And make a fist instead. Pushups with hands flat to the floor will bend your hand in a very sharp angle, and unless you are flexible in your hands, it will hurt.

While you are doing pushups with fists, spend some time stretching and rotating your wrist to increase flexibility.

[detlef]

Be careful with your wrists, that kind of cumulative damage is no joke and can stick around forever.

Dedicated pushup stands would solve the problem--probably--but cost money. Just use heavy free weights, preferably with rubber grips. This is what I do, I'm working out with an old wrist injury, and it helps a lot.

[TripleAce]

You might be putting too much stress on your wrist while doing the push ups. Its sometimes tricky to get the force to come from the right muscles when you first begin

Try to focus your force to come from your upper arms and chest and to rely less on your joints

[vishna]

The only reasonable thing to do is chop off your wrists. They're getting in thine way.

[OrdinaryGentleman]

Aren't you supposed to be asleep woman!

[vishna]

Guess who's awake 😴

[OrdinaryGentleman]

Me! :D

[PiuBelloAmante]

have you have ever had any previous wrist injuries?
it sound like a problem with your wrist joints not the muscle...

i never experienced this, even when doing wrist push ups...

[OrangeBoy]

Have you tried this?
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[FierceBrosnan]

If you have some hexagonal dumbbells lying around they are great for pushups and pretty stable on the floor.

[BruceJender]

How on Earth are your wrists hurting.

I'm doing the exactly the same thing and my arms barely ache.

Maybe you have a ligament issue or you've damaged your wrists before and this is reoccuring.

[AngryHorny]

Do fewer pushups.

[NotMyUsername15]

... bands.