When I started doing P90X I started to experience a fair bit
of recurring pain and discomfort in my wrists.
The workout that seemed to contribute to this pain the most would be Yoga. Yoga is just over 90 minutes
long. The first half involves a lot of
moves with repeated upward and downward dog.
Other moves that put stress on the wrists include some side arm balance
moves and crane. Typically after about
half an hour the frequency of these moves would result in my wrists to becoming quite
sore. For a long time I would not even
bother trying to do crane (It comes about 45 minutes in) as my wrists were
usually too sore. A few
years ago while looking on the web for a solution for my wrist issues I
discovered WAGs: Wrist Assured Gloves.
WAGs have a gel pad in the palm that helps to alleviate wrist
pain. From their website “The unique
shape of the gel pad supports your hand & wrist while the V cut-out
eliminates compression on the median nerve where it transverses the wrist”. I use them not only for Yoga but also for push ups (if I'm not using a bar), exercises in a plank position, or other
similar exercises. I have gone through 3
pairs of WAGs Ultra. I usually buy a new
pair once a year (when my fitness benefit at work renews). This year I decided to try a new version called
the WAG Flex. The major difference for
me was that it has a slimmer gel pad in the palm of the glove. The price is also a bit less than the Ultra
version. So far I have found them to be
working as well for me as the Ultra version although since I got them in my
workouts I have not done as much Yoga as I was before.
I would recommend WAGs to anyone that experiences wrist pain
from exercising. While they used to
originally target Yoga users, there are a lot of other forms of exercise that
can put similar stresses on wrists. As I
said, I use them for more than just Yoga whether in an Insanity or a P90X2
workout.
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