 Question is from Shannon Shifty. What can I do about wrist pain? My wrists always hurt after certain lifts, such as front squats. Is there a way to strengthen my wrists or is it a mobility issue? You know, I went through a period of time, and I know Justin, you did a lot of stuff on this too because you do a lot of front squats with that front rep position. Big wrist guy. Yeah, big, big wrist guy. Lots of wristing. I did this for a while because I went through a period of time where I was trying to be able to do lots and lots of push-ups. I had read a book, I can't remember the name of the book, but it was like a fitness for martial arts book, and push-ups have always been big in martial arts. And the problem when I did a lot of push-ups is I noticed I had to switch to those handles where my hands were in a neutral position, because if I just put my hands flat on the floor, it would start to hurt my wrist. And I thought, oh, I'm just gonna use these handles all the time. Then I read this article that talked about how to prevent that. And what the guy in the article said was, is he said, when you do push-ups on the ground, grip the floor. So now you can't grip the floor, obviously. I'm not actually taking a grab of the floor, but what I was doing is I was just activating my fingers and the muscles of my forearms. And I noticed my wrist pain went away, and I didn't really think much of it. Later on, as I was training clients, and I would teach them this, I realized why this helped alleviate pain. It wasn't because I was grabbing the floor, it was because- Taking some of the pressure off the joint. That's it. Yeah, because when I'm in a- Distributing the force. When you're in a position where- You're relaxed, you're putting all the stress on the joint. It's the ligaments of the joint that are supporting me. It's not the muscle. So when you wanna work on any kind of mobility, especially wrist mobility, you want your muscles to be able to support you in various positions. You don't want your joint. Yeah, that's a great illustration. I mean, you think of that when you're squatting, you don't wanna rest all that force down there in the hips and put that kind of pressure there. It's the same thing with the wrists. And yeah, I mean, that's a great way to look at it. I still also grip, use towels and things to really help enhance those muscles and ligaments to respond and get them to strengthen by using various techniques. And even with the fists doing push-ups on my fists and then really squeezing a tight, tight fist as I was doing push-ups, it's just really about getting them to respond and create more recruitment there to help distribute that force out. Yeah, you want a great way to work on it because this guy or this girl, sorry, said the front squats bother them. So first off, you can change your grip on a front squat so you can do the bodybuilder style, hands crossed, but of course that doesn't address the actual issue that's just replacing it. In the meantime, you want to be able to activate the muscles of your forearms while they're in that flexed front rack position. So what I just said with the push-ups is actually a great way to do that. When you get on the floor, don't you don't need to do a push-up, just get in a plank position and then while you're in that position, try to grab the floor, spread your fingers and grab the floor so that you can activate those muscles and practice holding that position, create tension there. Then when you get into the front rack position, do the same thing, hands underneath the barbell rather than resting in that position, activate your hands a little bit as if you're trying to lift the barbell up. Yeah, and I know this is a little bit outside of what form your wrist is going to be in but to also apply towels, like for me to train in that position in a front-loaded squat, I would put two different small hand towels and I would actually grip it in a neutral position and I would squeeze and lift my elbows up so that way, yeah, I was connecting to that a little bit more but then work my way closer and closer to the bar to where I could actually then start to get my fingers underneath the bar and allow that to happen. So little by little, you grab it a little bit closer down the towel. Yes, we did a YouTube video on that. We did a regression to the front squats. Oh, we did. Yeah, and we used the towels. One of my favorite wrist mobility and hand mobility movements that I never really used a lot of but we put in our mass. The rice buckets. Yeah, OCR product. Yeah, that's the only thing I was going to add to everything you guys said is I'm surprised neither one of you said anything about it was the rice buckets. I think that's, that was a game changer for my clients that carpal tunnel had any sort of four. I wish I'd have known that. I didn't use it beforehand, but I started using it. I was like, oh my God, I could totally feel everything get connected and respond. It's an old martial art method of strengthening the fingers, hands and the wrist. Here's what you do. It's super simple. You get yourself a bucket, fill it up with rice, stick your hand inside the rice and then move your hand and your fingers through full range of motion. Flexing, extended, open the fingers, and just practice moving. It's harder than it sounds because obviously the rice provides resistance, which is great now. You're strengthening in all the different ranges of motion. Great mobility exercise.