Wrists are weak!! Any advice

[Tomek.. The HULK]

When lifting heavy weights preferably doing preacher curls.. once i set the bar back onto the stand and let go of it my wrists suffer a quick sensation of pain... Any advice or exercises to do to strenghten the wrists.

 

[NorgePrecision]

-behind the back wrist curls
-sitting wrist curls

Eventually your wrist will catch up to the rest of you arms, but I'm sure any wrist curls or even grippers may help speed up the process.

 

[RipStone]

Farmer's walk is great for developing grip strength. Basiclly, grab a heavy set of DBs and walk with them at a brisk pace, until your grip almost fails. Do 2-3 sets.

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

how heavy is the weight that you are talking about? The shearing force on the wrist is incredible doing heavy curls.

 

[Beachbum1546]

don't rotate the wrist on any BB curls. I had the same problems on BB curls and preacher curls. My wrist would hurt SO bad. What I realized was I was curling my wirsts into myself on every rep and when I did this that is when I got pain. Once I focused on keeping my wrists in a straight posistion the pain stopped. I actually had to fight this today because my wrists were beginning to hurt from doing cheat curls for the last few reps of my sets. To stop it, I looked at my wrists while I curled and made sure they didn't move and the pain stopped.

The pain might come after your set but it is being caused during your set.

 

[Tomek.. The HULK]

cheers..

will give all suggestions a go!

 

[musketeer]

You have the first stages of tendonitis. Get some ibuprofen and ease off the weights for a week. Then, when your wrists have healed work the knots out of the tissues wth some high rep sets of wrist curls every day for a few weeeks. After taht, get into forearm training using a gripper, and doing things like chins, deads and rows.