StrongerLife Show 8: What can I do about painful hands and wrists?

What can I do about painful hands & wrists?

Do you have arthritis in your hands & wrists? Is it tough to bear weight or hold something heavy?

This can be common for many folks getting into exercise and there's A LOT of things we can do about this. The way we think about helping people with hand & wrist issues at StrongerLife is by focusing on two things in this video - Optimizing & Compensating.

Optimizing

• Improve Wrist Mobility

  • Weight Bearing Stretches

  • Banded Wrist Extension

• Working on Grip Strength (Clips)

• Warm-Up before you exercise

Compensating

• Use of Wrist Wraps

• Change how we’re Weight Bearing

  • Elevated Surface

  • Hands Turned Out

  • Use of Fists

  • Neutral Grip on Dumbbell

Give these a shot and let us know what you think. These techniques have proven to be helpful for our StrongerLife members.

StrongerLife Fitness is a functional fitness and strength training program for people over 55 and seniors in Lexington, KY.

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