So, well, if I saw this family, I am actually back outside to get my push day workout in. But, I just figured it would be the perfect time to make this video for those of you guys who have wrist pain when you guys are doing your pushing exercises in particular the push-ups. Now, I remember in my first summer of training, I was training like what every single day, sometimes even twice a week. And I remember at the end of July, I kind of f-ped up my wrist because I wasn't paying attention, I wasn't cautious to how I was doing my exercises and how I was prepping to do my workouts. So therefore, it felt like my wrist had arthritis or something. I don't know what it was. But, I know I was overusing my wrist and, like I can't say I stopped working now. If you guys go back to some of my old videos, you guys will see that I had the wrist wrap on and I was still doing one arm exercises. I just did not want to miss a day of workout until my body just couldn't do it anymore. Anyway, I just want to give you guys my tips on what you guys can do to make sure you prevent getting the wrist pain and to make sure that you could alleviate the wrist pain if you actually do experience or suffer from that wrist pain. Okay, so the first tip I'm going to give you is to make sure that your wrist are sitting in, sitting underneath of your shoulders when you are doing your push-ups. When your shoulders are sitting behind your wrist, most of the weight, if not all of the weight, is being applied at the bottom of your hand, which is where your wrist is. As you lean forward, you're going to realize that a lot of the weight is shifting from here across the entire hand. The more you lean back with your shoulders, you're going to start feeling a lot less weight on your fingers and a lot more weight on your wrist. Obviously, if you're pushing your entire freaking body weight on your wrist, on the bottom of your palm, you're going to start feeling pain. Okay, that's one thing I think I realized after I got the wrist pain, I wasn't really focusing on how I was doing the push-ups. I was just going and banging out, reping out, freaking reps, and I was just slowly deteriorating my joints. So again, for those of you guys who aren't watching your form, please make sure that your shoulders are sitting over your wrist so that you could distribute the weight across your entire hand, across your fingers, everything. So the second tip is to grip the ground. The best way for me to explain, gripping the ground is kind of like, you spread your fingers and you got to, it feels like you're palming a basketball. The reason why you want to do this is to make sure that you're utilizing all of the muscles in your hands to stabilize your body when doing the push-ups. You not want to do push-ups. Like I see some people doing with their fingers together. Again, you're going to start applying a lot of pressure to the bottom of your palm because you're not using your fingers also. Your fingers are useful tools when doing your exercises. So please use them before you snap your shit up. It's so important. Like I really want to drill this into your guys' head. Okay? So you're going to grip the ground, spread your fingers and make it feel like you're palming the freaking earth. Okay? The earth is your basketball. Now for those of you guys who have just bad, like, who has had bad wrists, okay? I have a bad right wrist to be honest. So sometimes even when doing some of these exercises for too long, I start getting wrist pain in my right wrist because it doesn't have as much mobility as my left wrist. But a little thing you could do to adjust your workout or adjust your pushing exercises is by either doing it on your knuckles, which I slightly recommend. Like I wouldn't recommend you do it for too, too long because it starts to make your knuckles look black and it starts to irritate the skin on your knuckles. But if you're just trying to get through a, finish your workout and you don't want to like, you don't want to stop your sets or stop your reps just because of your wrist pain, try to go on your knuckles. But if you're like me and you have push up bars or parallettes, I would advise that you go on your parallettes so that your grip is like this, your gripping bars instead of applying the pressure onto your wrist. Those are the only adjustments I can really think of to really help you guys get through your workouts if you do have bad wrist pain. Now obviously first and foremost, before you even start any of what I spoke about, you want to make sure that you're conditioning your wrist every day, especially if you have bad wrist. Make sure that you're conditioning your wrist every day and make sure that you are warming up your wrist before every single workout that you do. I cannot trust that enough. Ever since I started following these tips that I gave myself, especially warming up before my workouts, I did not have that wrist pain that I felt that first summer ever again. Did I have it sometimes here and there? Yes, because I would train like a freaking beast and even when I felt the pain, I would keep going. But for the most part, I did not have pain where it took me out of my workouts for over a week. For every single exercise or workout that I would do, I would make sure I do this wrist conditioning exercise or this wrist stretch, whatever you want to call it. First thing I would do is for about 15 to 20 seconds, I do it in this way. Straight arm and I would lean forward for about 15 to 20 seconds. Then I would rotate my arm straight arm lean back as far as you can and stretch. And I'm applying a bit of pressure to my wrist so that I'm preparing my wrist to handle my body weight when I'm doing handstands, pushups, whatever. So lean back and then the last way I would do it right after is straight arm as much as possible with the back of your hand facing the ground, lean back. You feel a stretch more along the front of your forearm. And I would do that for both arms, obviously. Please take heed to my message because for calisthenics enthusiasts such as myself, if you snap your shoulder, your elbow, your wrist up, you are not really doing calisthenics until those are fixed. You can snap your ankle up and still do calisthenics. Snap your knee up, still do calisthenics. The higher up you go, when you start snapping up your hips and the joints above your waist, then yeah, you're probably going to start getting screwed. So again, please take care of yourself. Don't be like me who is training every day and not paying attention to what I was doing. Okay? This video helped you guys. I'm going to get my workout in, get my warm up in and follow my own damn tips because I don't want to be a hypocrite. Okay, and I'll talk to y'all next time. Okay? Stay blessed. I am out of here. Done.