Some Fabulous Exercises to Strengthen and Tone Your Wrists

Strong wrists are very important for providing you with a firm grip and strengthening the muscles around your hands. Moreover, well built and strong wrists are less prone to fractures as compared to weak ones. Not only strong wrists help you achieve good results in many sports, but they are also very useful in avoiding certain diseases such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Therefore, it is very important that you especially focus on strengthening your wrists and maintaining strong muscles around your hands to avoid injuries, fractures and diseases.

Resistance training can play a vital role in strengthening and toning your wrists' muscles. There are different weight exercises that especially focus on firming muscles around your wrists in just 6-8 weeks. If you are a beginner, it is important to perform wrist exercises in the supervision of a professional gym trainer. He not only will design you a right combination of weight exercises to transform and strengthen your wrists, but will also show you how to perform them safely. It is important to keep in your mind that many wrist exercises need a right angle and perfect technique to execute them safely. Otherwise, you could end up with torn wrist muscles or can even damage your wrist bones.

Among different wrist workouts, push-ups make a wonderful exercise to incorporate in your daily training session. You can perform slow push-ups on your fingertips to strengthen and tone your wrists. During this wonderful exercise, make sure that your fingers stay firm and straight. Another good way to shape your wrists is to grasp a tennis ball in your right hand, squeeze and hold it for 10 seconds. You can do 3 sets of 15 each. Repeat the same process with your left hand.

If you want to strengthen and tone your wrists with weight exercises, hold a small weight bar in your hands, which is specifically designed for wrists' exercises, with weight plates on each side. Make sure that your palms are firm and facing up. Next step is to slowly bend your wrists upward and then lower the weight handle to its starting position. If you feel a little stress or strain on your wrists, it is better to add the weight plates to weight bar to increase the difficulty level of this magnificent exercise. 3 sets of 20 each make a good routine to be incorporated, 3-5 times a week in your regular training session to shape and tone your wrists.

Among "Do-it-Yourself" exercises, you can place your forearm on a table or a smooth surface with your thumb pointed towards the ceiling. Next step is to move your wrist down and up. Another effective exercise to strengthen your wrists is to lock your elbow against your side and turn your palm down to the floor and then up to the ceiling.

Guy Long runs Weight loss Program in Balaclava and is a Fitness Trainer in Prahran where he specializes in resistance training, body transformation, weight control, and overall muscular strength for local residents.