Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
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Re; WEIGHTS HURTING PALMS OF HANDS

workingoutgirl
workingoutgirl
Posts: 289
Joined: 2001/11/15
United States
2001/11/21, 09:03 AM
The palms or the meaty part below the thumb where you hold weights when doing dumbell flies and dumbell curls is sore. I only am now lifting 12 pounds (female here!!!) but am I either doing something wrong or am I still in a whimpy stage and this is something to get over. I know as I do a set I can feel soreness more in my hands than in my chest.
AND I do wear some rubberized padded gloves.
Philia2
Philia2
Posts: 4,078
Joined: 2001/10/19
France
2001/11/21, 11:53 AM
Maybe you should try to strengthen your hand grip.
Try to take some very heavy weights in your hands and walk around for a while. Don't do anything with the weights but just carry them around. This exercise will strengthen your grip (and make a lot of people laugh too!! :o)
2-3 times a week. Try to see if this will work (but give it at least 4-6 weeks before you really can tell the results).
Kapu88
Kapu88
Posts: 1
Joined: 2001/11/27
United States
2001/12/12, 08:54 PM
yeah it is normal fro ur hands to hurt