Wrist/forearm pains.

[equus3]

Hi guys.

Rather a non-workout question here than a workout one. The thing is about pain in my wrists, especially the right one. It's almost a year since I stopped working out (private reasons, the last year has been a total roller-coaster in my private life) and I still regularly get these pains. Most of the time they happen in wrist area or somewhere between my thumb and my index finger. When they're the second type, I sometimes have difficulties with holding heavier things. When I regularly went to the gym (the last time I went reguraly for 7 months, but I had worked out and learnt the basic exercising technique before that), I regularly had these pains especially when working out biceps with a barbell, they were sometimes quite strong and prevented me from finishing sets - in such situations the pain was more in the whole area of the bottom of the forearm. But whenever I talked to anyone about them, these guys said that it would go away with time, when my arms get stronger. Well, they clearly haven't gone away and they appear again every time I try to do some pull-ups, dumbell exercises or sometimes push-ups at home. The question is - what can I do about it? I'm a bit worried since gaining any muscle has always been very challenging for me (I'm skinny) and even when I had some results, they were (very) mediocre, both in terms of strength and size. So I'm a bit worried that these pains may interfere with my workouts in the future (I definitely intend to come back to working out when my life gets a little more calm) - and I still feel like I'm totally at the beginning of the whole bodybulding road (I'm 26 BTW). To sum up - can I do something about such pains? Are they completely normal and should be ignored or not? I'm confused.

[BIGJOEY]

what u have is not uncomom as you think. Usually most forearm and wrist pain is due to a few things. for most its 3 things inproper form, too much weight, griping the bar too hard. Now the latter of the three is usually the one that causes most of the problems. i would suggest the following. first relax your grip on the bar. you will have to drop weight but 95% of the time this will solve the problem. Since your body works on angles and degrees of motition when you frip a bar hard on a barbell curl your forearm/ writs does 50% of the work load till your forearm is parelle to the floor ( writs in straight line with elbow joint) only after this point will the biceps do the work and only until the writs is 45 degrees to the elbow again. By relaxing your grip you take out the forearm/wrist out of the range of motition once you start the exercise you will notice the biceps will do more of the work load. If you dont follow this drop me a pvt message

[equus3]

Hi Bigjoey, thanks for your reply. What you're saying makes a lot of sense and I'm definitely going to try it out when I come back to my workouts. I was thinking, however, whether I could do something about them now, when I'm not training yet.

[mavia]

Yes, I'm agree with bigjoey. Just take it easy & don't push very hard.

[drew]

I've been having the same problem. Taking it easy is best. Also, you can take a couple of naproxin sodiums (alieve) a day for about a week. That will relax the tissues around the strained area and allow it to heal more quickly.