3 Wrist Extension Exercises that will Change your Life.

You’ve figured it out - your wrist extension sucks. Your forearms are weak and you get pain in your wrists when you load them.

Now what? Do some wrist extensions right?

Not so fast, reader. I went through the exact same thought process myself and in this article, I want to save you time and heartache before you make the same mistakes I did.

Why do you get wrist extension pain?

Pain is complex, especially if it’s chronic. There is a multi-billion dollar industry of charlatans that will try to simplify it however and sell you their antidote.

I will not do that here. Instead, I will tell you the same thing I tell all my students. Exercise is only one small piece of a much larger puzzle in overcoming pain-problems.

Despite its limitations, corrective exercise and the pursuit of better movement can make dramatic changes in how you move and feel on a daily basis.

If you get wrist pain with extension, it might mean there is some limitation in your wrists but the problem might also be somewhere else in your body.

Assess your Wrist Extension Muscles

The first step is to integrate some easy joint mobility drills for your wrists.

For many people, just getting the wrists moving like this everyday will dramatically improve how their wrists feel.

Notice how your wrists feel after implementing the wrist mobility work for a couple of weeks.

To test strength, I recommend you try dumbbell wrist extensions. To test the length of your wrist extensors, I recommend the kneeling wrist extension stretch.

You can do the above exercises as a full routine 1-2x a week. Start with the mobility drill, then the dumbbell wrist extensions and finish off with the wrist extension stretch.