Why Workout Wrist Support Matters

Workout wrist support is important, whether you’re going through movements in the box or trying to hit a new PR. If your wrist is injured, your lifting may be done for the day or you could even end up with an injury you’ll be nursing for weeks or months. That’s why it’s important to have the best wrist support for your lifting style, as it needs to both remain flexible enough that you’re strengthening your body and firm enough that it aids proper form. Proper form when you’re lifting helps increase efficiency while lowering the risk of injury.

Anatomy of the Wrist

The wrist is a complex joint that provides the movement options you need to get the most out of the hands with opposable thumbs evolution gave you. You need workout wrist support because this joint is comprised of eight bones, four ligaments, and a synovial joint capsule. To further complicate things, it directly and indirectly articulates with still more bones, ligaments, and tendons. 

Too much pressure applied at the wrong point or the wrong angle can lead to bruises, sprains, dislocations, and fractures anywhere from your fingers, down through your carpal bones, and even into your forearm. We know from experience. 

To summarize: there’s a lot of things that can go very wrong, very fast.

Supporting Your Wrist’s Anatomy

Compression is among the best ways to support your wrists, and that’s exactly what proper workout wrist support provides. Wrist wraps apply force around the circumference of your wrist, helping to keep the bones and ligaments properly in place. They’re stretchy, to allow them to move as your wrist flexes or rotates. They’re also firm enough to help keep your movements controlled, with just enough bounce back to help your wrist’s delicate parts stay in alignment through the motions you put it through. That does not, however, mean that all wrist wraps are the same.

Choosing The Best Wrist Support For Your Lifting

We generally see two types of lifters: fitness enthusiasts who include resistance training in their movements and big lifters that focus on heavier weights to maximize strength or gains. These two crowds need very different wrist supports, even if we’re talking about the same guy on two different days of his workout cycle.

• Strength and Conditioning Wraps. These thinner, more flexible wraps are perfect for weight training, HIIT, and CrossFit. They offer the firm support you need while still giving you the flex you need for more dynamic lifts. Most of our wraps are fall into this hard-working, jack-of-all-trades category, giving you a variety of styles to choose from.

 Get The Wraps That Give Back

Don’t forget that a portion of the proceeds for every pair of wraps we sell goes to support charities that we’re passionate about and that make a difference. That means you’re not only giving your wrists better support, you’re giving initiatives you care about the support to keep helping others.

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