Muscle imbalance affecting wrists?

I've considered that the wrist issues I've been experiencing recently are possibly the result of a muscular imbalance.

My reasoning is that I work the wrist flexors heavily in FL,BL,Mups and to some degree HS's, however the extensors get more or less nothing. I had better results with wrist push ups alone than with wrist+fist knuckle+dorsal, so I'm going to act to counteract the imbalance to see if it exists.

Any suggestions on wrist extensor exercises, or how to adapt FSP's and FBE's to make them more extensor dominant?

At the moment I'm going for lots of wrist push ups, and looking for something to do reverse curls with (ATM looks like a tin of paint).

Thanks for your time.

rice bucket, wrist roller, clubbells, sledge hammer, etc.

even using your other hand as resistance for wrist extension can help

There you go! A thick wrist roller, 2-2.5 inches thick, will be your best friend. You can make one for just about nothing by buying a 2 foot piece of PVC from Lowe's or Home Depot for 2 bucks. Drill a hole somewhere around the middle and then stick your rope through it, tie it around a stick or something, and thenlet it slide back in! Now you just need to tie weight to the other end of the rope and start rolling! This will do you the most good if you have a doorway single pull up bar and can set it up as a support inside the roller. Holding the roller severely limits the weight you can use and makes it a shoulder exercise, and not a very good one at that.

slizzardman said:

This will do you the most good if you have a doorway single pull up bar and can set it up as a support inside the roller. Holding the roller severely limits the weight you can use and makes it a shoulder exercise, and not a very good one at that.

Do you mean to thread the rope around the pull up bar so it acts similar to a pulley? I assume it would be set at about shoulder height?

Rubber band around the fingertips; have your HS alignment looked at.

Mr Brady said:

slizzardman said:

This will do you the most good if you have a doorway single pull up bar and can set it up as a support inside the roller. Holding the roller severely limits the weight you can use and makes it a shoulder exercise, and not a very good one at that.

Do you mean to thread the rope around the pull up bar so it acts similar to a pulley? I assume it would be set at about shoulder height?

slide pip over bar before fixing bar to doorway.

Thanks guys. I think I have enough ideas for some new rehab every day of the week, plus some spare.

HS form check will appear in HS forum as soon as I have a nice day to film on. (hopefully tomorrow)

jasonmstein said:

Rubber band around the fingertips; have your HS alignment looked at.

This is really a fantastic exercise that not very many people do, including me. You really don't get any simpler, and this keeps the hands and fingers more injury resistant.

Mr Brady said:

slizzardman said:

This will do you the most good if you have a doorway single pull up bar and can set it up as a support inside the roller. Holding the roller severely limits the weight you can use and makes it a shoulder exercise, and not a very good one at that.

Do you mean to thread the rope around the pull up bar so it acts similar to a pulley? I assume it would be set at about shoulder height?

No, you slide the hollow wrist roller over any supported bar, whether it's a safety catch on a power rack or a single doorway pull up bar! This lets you use the wrist roller without supporting the weight with your shoulders. This allows you to target the wrist and forearm extensors and flexors without learning bad habits or being limited by the shoulders, which are in an awkward position with heavy weight. Not to mention that the freely-held wrist roller ends up being very hard to handle with heavy weight. You can use whatever grip width you want with the wrist roller that is supported through the center, which relieves wrist pressure caused by super close grips.