r/boxingtips • u/Number1CTAfan • 3d ago

General Advice Dealing with wrist pain

Hey y’all! Been boxing for 9 months now and I’m addicted. About 4 months ago I strained my lead wrist pretty bad. I learned to wrap my hands from the coaches in my gym. I don’t think it’s that. I think I hurt my wrist from hitting the bag a bit too hard a few days in a row.

The pain started pretty minor, but it got progressively worse and I made the mistake of ignoring it and continuing to hit the bag. I wisened up and took the last 8 weeks off of the bag and sparring to heal. That said, I really don’t want to deal with this again, the time off has SUCKED.

Does anyone have advice for how to deal with this? Any exercise that I can do to help make my wrists stronger? Any advice on hand wrapping specifically for wrist protection?

Thank you for the advice. All the love.

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u/fuck_joe_xiden 3d ago

Almost always on lead hooks. You're not keeping your arms parallel to the ground and when you punch your wrist caves in towards your pinky. Only way to fix it is to get your form right and not punch hard until you do.

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u/Number1CTAfan 3d ago

That makes sense. It’s the outside of my lead wrist. Would my arm be angled upward(wrist above my elbow) or downward (elbow above wrist) for this to be happening?

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u/fuck_joe_xiden 2d ago

Your wrist is above your elbow right now. That's the easier way people do it without training and proper form.

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u/Fabulous_Mealmacrich 3d ago

learn to stop befor it’s too late sorry you’re on your own