Upper-body exercises without use of hands?

GPL1989

Long story short, I've injured both of my wrists and can't lift anything above 3-4kg. It's likely I'll be like this for a while longer so I'm trying to come up with ways around it. I've already worked out a way to do shoulder exercises - can anybody think of any other realistic, worthwile methods of working the rest? Be as inventive/imaginitive as you'd like.

Thanks!

Reply 1

SquishyAnt

Upper body workout without hands? :confused:

Is that even bloody possible.

Reply 2

ScrewNormality

Swimming..? Thats about as good as I can think of lol

Reply 3

Jonty007

6

Take this time to work on your lower body and overall fitness. Even the best athletes need to take a break now and then.

Reply 4

koranreader

do pushups. They are the best upper body exercise

Reply 5

Rob25

GPL1989

Long story short, I've injured both of my wrists and can't lift anything above 3-4kg. It's likely I'll be like this for a while longer so I'm trying to come up with ways around it. I've already worked out a way to do shoulder exercises - can anybody think of any other realistic, worthwile methods of working the rest? Be as inventive/imaginitive as you'd like.

Thanks!

For shoulders you can use a machine lateral raise without using the hand grip

For Chest use a pec dec with your arms against the pads

Reply 6

arctic_toon

1

you don't want to risk aggravating your wrists.....a few weeks or recovery turning into months is the last thing you want. You're probably noticing the importance of wrists in weight training, so keep that in mind and try to get your wrist strength back.

Reply 7

GPL1989

OP

2

Found this - I should be able to manage a fair bit with these ab sling things he's going on about!

arctic_toon

you don't want to risk aggravating your wrists.....a few weeks or recovery turning into months is the last thing you want. You're probably noticing the importance of wrists in weight training, so keep that in mind and try to get your wrist strength back.

That's kind of already happened (but I didn't aggrovate it by doing weights) :p:

I reckon it'll be months until I can realistically hold the weights with my hands again. Hence this thread. If it were just a few weeks I wouldn't be too bothered.

Reply 8

cazp1968

Need your hands for that you dope!!

Reply 9

Zander01

3

You could still do the pec machine I suppose if you go to the gym.

Just realised this was posted 5 years ago.

****ing noob

Reply 10

DCC2020

1

How do you suggest doing push-ups without using hands???

Reply 11

csutter4

Doing (forearm) planks will work triceps, upper back and some chest. Variations on this could help too, like putting out an arm and reaching for something OR both an and the opposite side's leg. I've had wrist tendonitis for the past week and a half, and this seems to be safe. If it's too easy, then you could try plopping a weight on your back while doing this--*if* you've done that before (if not, then it'd suck to injure something else). If you have access to a gym, a Smith machine does wonders. Like if you're comfortable doing Good Mornings, you could use the Smith machine; however, I have only one injured wrist; so, I used my good one to twist the bar off the rack. I'm not sure if this would be feasible if both your wrists are hurt. Also, not sure if your injury is like mine, but mine is throughout my hand, so I can't grip anything. However, if you have a wrist splint AND you're allowed to grip things (so, unlike my injury), then you can do a million things with cable machines or with at-home cables that attach to your door, like standing rows (narrow or wide), the sitting version of that, unilateral versions of that, chest press, ... you get the idea. ...I don't know how strong you are, so this might be too easy, but maybe you could do rear deltoid exercises on a bench without using any weight, by maybe sitting on the end of the bench, bent forward at a 45 degree angle to lift your arms up OR by lying on your stomach on the bench and slowly lifting your arms up. ...I expect my reply is unsatisfying, but hope it helps!!

Upper-body exercises without use of hands?

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