So lately on RGB, I have been having wrist pain. I keep my ass off the bench and take a ninja turtle grip (2 fingers, thumb) and angle my wrists towards the uprights like you are supposed to. I was still getting wrist pain from this method...
I found the reason was because I suck at unracking on the smith because you have to rotate it and my wrists get cockeyed and I can't reset them with the weight bearing on them.
So, I set the stops just above my chest and actually started my reps with the bar at the bottom off the stops vs unracking. When your ass gets off the bench, you get a slight arch so the bar will be in perfect position resting on the stops, yet still against your chest.
The result was zero pain in the wrists and very clean reps because I was able to start with my wrists setup straight. Granted, if you are pushing really heavy weight it may be hard to push from the bottom, but it helped me tremendously. I am using a 20-24 rep range for this movement, so pressing from the bottom on the first rep is no problem.
You may or may not have this problem, but just thought I'd share.
I found the reason was because I suck at unracking on the smith because you have to rotate it and my wrists get cockeyed and I can't reset them with the weight bearing on them.
So, I set the stops just above my chest and actually started my reps with the bar at the bottom off the stops vs unracking. When your ass gets off the bench, you get a slight arch so the bar will be in perfect position resting on the stops, yet still against your chest.
The result was zero pain in the wrists and very clean reps because I was able to start with my wrists setup straight. Granted, if you are pushing really heavy weight it may be hard to push from the bottom, but it helped me tremendously. I am using a 20-24 rep range for this movement, so pressing from the bottom on the first rep is no problem.
You may or may not have this problem, but just thought I'd share.
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