What caused it? How old are you? How long have you been training? What loads are you handling? Was any other activity involved?
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Programming for healing tendinitis wrist
I recently got tendinitis wrist. I've been taking fish oil and glucosamine+chondroitin. It's been 3 weeks or so and it's healing well, but when I do heavy sets of 5 for exercises like the Press and sometimes the Bench it really stresses it. I was wondering if I can change the rep ranges to accommodate for my healing tendinitis wrist? And I definitely cannot power clean, so should I replace it with rows in this instance?
Something like:
3x5 Squat
3x8 Press
3x5 Rows
If this has been gone over, I apologize, just point me to the nearest resource where i can educate myself. Thanks.
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What caused it? How old are you? How long have you been training? What loads are you handling? Was any other activity involved?
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Originally Posted by mikeyfresh
While a slightly different injury (radial collateral ligament injury of the wrist), I swapped power cleans for snatches because they didn't bother the wrist. I also taped the wrist every training session and used wrist wraps to "cast" the wrist as best as I could. I injured my wrist when I missed the rack for 140kg about 3 weeks out from a powerlifting meet. I was fine during the meet and have been able to train with the injury by taping/wrapping and avoiding cleans for the time being.
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I'm not exactly sure what started it, but my wrist started feeling tweaked one weekend. I was an idiot and ignored it and pressed, which worsened it. I backed off after another press workout where it felt relatively bad. My best guess is that my wrist position on the press was the main culprit. I am on the verge of 19 and have been training for almost 5 months inconsistently due to a back problem I had from wrestling, I've been going about 3 months consistently before I stopped due to the wrist issue. My loads for the exercises in which my wrist gets in the way are:
(weights I'm suppose to be hitting next workouts)
3x5 Bench @ 200lb
3x5 Press @ 142.5lb
I seem to be able to handle the bench better than the press, I assume it's became my wrist aren't bent in any position. I've reread SS and tried regripping to put less stress on the wrist as best I could, even then using ~60% working weight put strain on it.
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See pages 82-82 and 154-55 in BBT3
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Rip, do you have any advice for improving mechanics on the jerk. In order to get the bar to sit on my shoulders I have to have the bar in my fingers and wrists bent pretty bad. I have a hell of a time driving my arms up like that though I see people doing that. I've had some luck widening my grip and working hard to regrip as close to my press grip as I can get. I'm guessing I just need to keep doing that and the "walk under" (?) stretch until I'm flexible enough.
My shoulder feels worse from trying to improve my position than my wrists do, I don't know if that means I'm on the right track.
Thanks. Oh, wrong thread but nice dead lift.
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I developed what has been diagnosed as carpal tunnel a few months back. I imagine its from not keeping my wrists straight when pressing, going to start back in 2 weeks or so with the wrist wraps and proper form. After watching video, I was not keeping my chest up, so to keep balance I was bending my wrists back causing strain.
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Widen your grip. Look at this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RCe4Q0p1aA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBypkeCLX8
Note the grip width. It should be wider than the press, as wide as you can manage, to shorten the bar path.
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That's some crazy lifting. Thanks for posting. I really have no words.
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