Wrist Pain

sounds like you know the source of your problems already... I'm pretty sure you wrapped your hands good already too. Good form reduces the pain but pain is almost unavoidable. Wear and tear sucks.

 

stop it or you will go blind.


Seriously, give it few weeks and see if the pain will go away. If not, see a doctor.

 

What kind of Gino are you?Man the **** up!

 

Instead of first 3 knuckles? Arent you supposed to use last 3?

 

Ice it when it happens.

I had that problem for a while and it heals pretty slow. You could also try double-wrapping your hands until it's better.

Don't hit with the last three knuckles, the fourth and fifth metacarpals are not as strong as the others and commonly break in what is called a 'boxer's fracture'.

Look at your form on hooks, from what you're saying I get the impression you're hooking palm down. There's no problem with that, but it requires you to pay more attention to what part of your hand is connecting.

 

Sounds to me like your wrist is not locked out when connecting and it is flexing too much on impact. That injury is real easy to get when throwing hooks improperly or hard shots that make the wrist bend on impact. Next time try concentrating on keeping your wrist as locked as possible.

Don't even think about this before doing it. Make a fist, look at your hand from the side with the thumb facing you. Check out the plane of the top of your hand, up your wrist, across your forearm to the elbow. That should basically be on the same plane in a straight line. If the upper part of the fist it turned upward or downward you will get too much flex in the wrist when striking the bag hard, thus injuring your wrist.

 

It is your wrist stabilization (forearm) strength.

Your arms, shoulders, etc... muscles gain strength VERY quickly. The forearm muscles gain strength and endurance very slowly. What is happening is that your ability to punch harder is progressing faster than your ability to stabilize your wrist (strength) against the force of the punches and/or your ability to keep the wrist stabilized (endurance) for long training sessions. You need to build this strength.

My suggestion would be the exact opposite of what you may think. Stop over wrapping (or wrapping at all) and use old school bag gloves for LIGHT, I cannot stress this enough LIGHT, heavy bag work where the focus is on squeezing the fist and keeping the wrist stable.

You will notice the burn in the top portion of your forearm. After a few rounds THEN do your HB workout normally wrapped focusing on the fist and wrist stabilization. As with building any muscle, start lightly at first.

IMHO over wrapped hands and overly supportive gloves ruin your ability to punch. Same way thick soled gym shoes cause your feet to hurt like hell the first time you wear thin boxing shoes on a soft canvas. It makes the muscles weak.

 

If muscles gain strength quickly, why are the forearm muscles dfferent?

So let me get this straight, instead of advising a routine involving grip training, which would make perfect sense, you advocate removing handwraps, which are one of the staples of hand protection, in the thought that impact will strengthen your wrist and forearm?

Shall I take off my gumshield to make my teeth stronger?

 

This is so ignorant I almost feel you are joking.

Because your forearm muscles are smaller, rarely conditioned in normal people, have less kinesthetic intelligence, and built for endurance not strength. Why aren't your triceps as strong as your quads? Same applies. Your punch assisting muscles at their worst are used 100 times more than your muscles that keep a fist in a "death clench" and a wrist stabilized for punching. Unless you are a construction worker, mechanic, or plumber.

I guess you are of the mind that all muscle is created equal? So the muscle that moves your arm at the elbow will gain strength at the same rate the muscle that moves your index finger? :yep

Yes, get it straight. Just like walking in cement bottomed shoes does not condition your feet by "protecting" your toes. Wrapping your hands in a cloth and leather cast of "protection" does not improve wrist stabilization for punching when your wrists are limp. "Grip training" ain't training to hold a fist in a Boxing situation. His goal was to throw punches without pain, not layer another 2 hours of workouts into his routine hanging from towels or rolling weights up on broomsticks.

And if you actually read instead of jumping to BS conclusions, removing the wraps was NOT to condition the wrist through blunt force trauma. The point was to feel and stabilize the wrist using MUSCULAR TENSION through LIGHT heavy bag work. I even stressed that brain child.

Since normal peoples' teeth are rigid body parts in sockets, for anyone else? I would say no.

For you, since your teeth are obviously muscles? Yes. This is just what you need. Actually you should open your mouth wide open while getting hit with hooks and uppercuts. Hell lay on a curb and let your friend stomp your neck. :blood

 

ok i ****ing hate italians after what they did to us french in the 2006 world cup but i am going to help you out anyway dude, like the good samaritan. i used to always have this problem and it still comes back once in a while, but thats how it is, tough **** you're doing boxing :|. since i've started training my forearms its A LOT better, seriously this does work, you just got to keep training your forearms every day or 6 days out of 7. i don't know if bald head slick is right but my forearms did take a lot of time to gain strength, whereas other muscles do blow up real fast when i start new training. keep working on the heavy bag all the time, when it hurts too bad just take it easy and focus on technique. good luck, it will pass but its a *******

 

Actually, I doubt it would be proportionately much different at all, except for the fact you don't have a muscle in your index finger. Strength improves pretty quickly in all areas, especially for beginners to the type of training, because strength is more about nervous coordination than muscular mass.

..and your muscles are not intelligent. Don't be silly.

..and no, muscle memory is not real memory in your muscles, before you bring that gem up.

Nope, you're being ignorant to grip training. Those are two out of many more portable methods such as CoC grippers.

..oh and btw your cement bottomed shoes analogy is completely irrelevant.

You said to hit the bag without wraps, so you're either trying to condition through force, or you're trying to build grip strength, the latter of which can be more effectively accomplished with a grip training routine.

 

wrap your knuckles and wrist mostly wrist