There’s no serious risk of damaging your joints from lifting, actually it’s the opposite. Resistance training will reduce the likelihood of injury throughout all stages of life.
Well, as long as you’re doing it responsibly and working your way up.
(I did 200lb on the chest press machine a couple days ago, and my left wrist has informed me that this was a very bad idea. Luckily, it seems to be recovering, though.)
Yeah :3 Just based on teaching people to do various chest exercises, wrist pain is usually caused by holding the implement too far up the hand, creating a moment arm that bends your wrist open. Around 150-200lbs is usually when people stop being able to tolerate such a grip
If you search this page for “bench grip” it will take you to an image of three hands, the rightmost of which has a red line and a green line. Best image I’ve ever found for communicating the spot. If you get it down you should feel no discomfort at all in your wrists
Well, as long as you’re doing it responsibly and working your way up.
(I did 200lb on the chest press machine a couple days ago, and my left wrist has informed me that this was a very bad idea. Luckily, it seems to be recovering, though.)
Yeah :3 Just based on teaching people to do various chest exercises, wrist pain is usually caused by holding the implement too far up the hand, creating a moment arm that bends your wrist open. Around 150-200lbs is usually when people stop being able to tolerate such a grip
https://stronglifts.com/bench-press/#Bench_Press_Setup
If you search this page for “bench grip” it will take you to an image of three hands, the rightmost of which has a red line and a green line. Best image I’ve ever found for communicating the spot. If you get it down you should feel no discomfort at all in your wrists