Weak wrists/grip?

Finafoshizzle93

I'm struggling with increasing my weights (dumbells) for arm exercises to more than 25 lbs. my wrists/hands start to hurt. Any advice or exercises I can do to help? I feel like I could lift more and don't want to stagnate my progress.

lorrpb

Make sure you keep your wrist straight. There are gripper handles you can use to help strengthen your grip.

DopeItUp

The more you do it, the better you'll get at it. That applies to everything.

MyFreakingNameIsScott

Farmer carries should help.

pinggolfer96

Farmer carries
Deadlifts
Shrugs
Pronated curls

Cherimoose

Which program are you following?

Stockholm_Andy

In addition to those above grip trainers (fake Capt. Crush or similar) work wonders and you can do them almost anywhere.

thenaj17

You need to do separate exercises specifically for wrists/forearms. As Pinggolfer stated above 4 exercises + a few of the following that you can see on youtube how to do:-

Dumbbell wrist curls
Reverse wrist curls
Reverse bicep curls
Hammer curls
Zottmann curls (especially good!)

KarenSmith2018

I use wrist wraps for heavy weight (body weight push jerks, heavy bench press etc). Dead hangs off a bar, low weight but regular grip deadlifts, then just squeezing my ball into a fist and releasing a few times day.

100_PROOF_

I had the same issue at first. I felt like my wrists would snap off! It got better though. I have to wear a wrap or sleeve still every now and then but I was still able to progress just fine. Stick with it!

stanmann571

You may be overgripping. You shouldn't have a white knuckle grip most of the time. It should be just firm and tight enough.

You may also be doing too many reps/sets and fatiguing your grip, forcing you to white knuckle harder and fatigue worse.

erickirb

what exercise does this happen on?
How many reps do you do per set?
how many sets do you do?