Hi guys,
I have had a bit of wrist pain from doing a lot of exercises that put strain on the wrists such as handstands, handstand presses etc. It's nothing too bad but I would like to prevent any injuries. I recently found some wrist wraps for "crossfit, calisthenics, gym, weightlifting" etc. and wonder how these worked and if they would be useful? I have seen boxers wrapping their wrists to strengthen the wrist while punching and have seen gymnasts wearing black guard things around their wrists when doing pommel horse. I have been stretching my wrists and doing forearm work to stabilize the joint as well. Thanks!
This is what helped me quite a bit:
As for wrist wraps, they seem to be very useful as I've heard. I don't exactly know how they work but I guess they support the wrist joint. I've also heard that the wrist pain will probably go back when you don't wear them.
Just try to be really careful and make sure you don't develop some sort of tendinitis, it's probably one of the worst injuries you can develop. Don't do stuff that you know will hurt it and make it worse. It's also usual for people to experience wrist pain from handstands the first year of working out (well I'm not sure if it's true for everyone, and probably varies from person to person), the wrist is getting used to all the pressure and any sort of over-doing will make the "getting used to the pressure" into "getting used to an injury" if you know what I mean, and to help make the wrist pain negligible is obviously making it more flexible, but don't go too crazy on stretching either. Good luck!
Stretch all the muscles in your upper body both after your workout and on your rest days (the post workout stretching routine Chris posted would work fine)
Oh and you have to consider that explosive movements have particularly high impact so be careful with those