I in no way can do a full push-up, so I do the "girly" push-up on knees. But I've been noticed the first time doing a push-up, even when I do the "girly" push-ups, wrists hurt like h-e double hockey sticks! I asked boyfriend to watch to make sure hands were under shoulders and that I was doing it properly. He said I was (except that I was arching back a little). He thought the fact I was arching back could be putting too much pressure on wrists, and made sure when I did push-ups that back was flat, but I told him it still hurt wrists and asked him if it should. He said I should only be feeling it in the shoulder region, not wrists, but that he also doesn't do a lot of push-ups. I don't feel it in shoulder region, at least not WHILE I'm doing the push-ups...I definitely feel sore the next day in triceps, shoulders etc. The feeling I'm having is sharp pains on the top of wrists when I go in the down position. He had me try push-ups on his "iron-gym" (anyone who doesn't know what that is...I'll post a pic), and it still bothered wrists.
I've tried the wall push-up, and that does alleviate the pain in the wrists, but that method just doesn't work for me. I like to push myself (not so much that I pull a muscle) and doing wall push-ups don't seem to fulfill "want" to push myself. Is there another exercise I could do that will give me the same results push-ups would give me?
I have 1Ib, 3Ib free weights, and a medium tension band.
Iron Gym
Push ups are very rewarding, though as alternatives you can do chest press, DB flys etc.If it helps any, mine hurt also when I started doing them & probably did for a month.
