Help: need alternate upper body work outs

[Luke]

I have my own personal workout routines and shit that I've had since my high school days that emphasize what I need to be successful in hockey. I have mentioned previously, I'm rehabbing bursitis in my wrist. If I were to drop into a pushup position, there's shooting pains up my left arm, and the wrist collapses. My wrist strength is not seriously impeded but the movement range is drastically so. Because of this, I'm extremely limited in what I can do. My upper body strength is drastically falling off, and I need some alternate workouts. I mainly need pecs and triceps centric ones, but I need to minimize radial abduction and ulnar adduction.

I know none of you are studying PT, but wrist injuries are fairly common, particularly in routine lifters, so I thought one or two of you might have found something that could help. Thanks a lot.

[Andrew]

im studying pt lol

[Luke]

im studying pt lol

That's a 6 year program my dude, get out while you can. My roommate is PT, and me, and his girlfriend, and all his other friends are going to be out of this college 2 years before him bwahaha

[Luke]

Also if you're PT can you diagnose this bad boy for me, prescribe me some opiates, and tell me some exercises?

[Dizzy]

hi

[Tris]

I dunno much about wrist injuries but if you want to get back into the gym I'd make sure you protect your wrists and get some straps just to support them at all times. I've heard there are some gloves/straps that can immobilize your wrists almost completely and put the pressure elsewhere.

Using a weight in which your wrist could cope with may be something to consider with dumbbells and barbells but my advice would be to speak to a physiotherapist or someone who specializes in rehabilitation training to give you proper advice rather then you asking on here.

I've had a wrist injury which lasted a few weeks, for me it was a minor issue and it went away over the course of a few weeks through several wrist exercises and proper technique when working out.

I guess it depends on where the pressure lies when you grasp a dumbbell/barbell and pump out the reps, it could say only occur when your wrist is in a position when the hand is flat or not parallel to the wrist when grasping a dumbbell or barbell, both in theory put pressure on parts of the wrist, where as keeping your wrist straight takes most of this pressure away. It's quite common to see people bend their wrists forward or backwards when doing dumbbell and barbell exercises to compensate for the weight.

Fairly limited to training chest since most barbell and dumbbell exercises put quite a lot of pressure on parts your wrists so I'm thinking pec dec is one of the options here since the amount of pressure placed on one's wrist is minimal. You might wish to start out on machines and see if you can cope with basic movements. Most machines are designed to promote proper form so when one goes from machines to free weights they have less risk of injury.

Again I know nothing of your wrist condition but you may want to look into strengthening your wrists but I'm not sure how wise that would be; whether it would help or only make the issue worse:

http://www.livestron...ist-tendonitis/

Talk to a pro, in 6 months of course we haven't covered much about wrist issues and alternative exercises.

Edited January 11, 2013 by Tris

[Motif]

I'm going to have to say use Wrist wraps/gloves to keep your wrist strong and if you do want to use weight's use a very light weight to try regain back that strength.

[Luke]

Thanks Tris :)

[DeltaPapa]

My mums a physio. Thats my 2 cents.

[ORP]

thinking about PT aswell, is it gud pay tho?

[Jon]

Bench deadlift and squat everyday.

[Fred]

I broke my wrist quite badly and have 5 metal pins in there (left wrist) so my left arm is drastically weaker, and i cant do any heavy lifting yet due to a lack of muscle/strength in the lower arm... For me i just have to do a lot of reps with a slightly lower weight in my left arm, and can't do heavy lifting which uses both arms because my right arm would dominate and left would potentially get injured, it sucks- but you want to do more than me so yeah, go to a physio.

[Veta]

do circles with your wrist with a bagel in hand to gain back strength

[Reevesy]

My mums a physio. Thats my 2 cents.

can she give me a happy ending