 Our next caller is Nick from Maryland. Hey, what's up, Nick? How can we help you? Hi guys, thanks for having me on. So as I've been doing more strength training over the last four or five months or so, I've begun to develop my ulna bone, seems to experience a lot of strain. It's only on one wrist, so I don't know if it's a overall structure thing or if it's a muscle imbalance. But as I've gotten stronger, I've noticed doing like straight bar bench and things like that on the bone seems to push out, which turns my whole hand inward now. I haven't had any injuries on or anything like that, so I'm not too sure what the origin of it is, but somebody suggested it needs to be more of a wrist stability strengthening solution. Yeah, Nick. So this is common when people are utilizing a grip that is not ideal on the bar. Okay, so first off, you want a full grip. You want a tight, strong grip. You want to keep your wrist strong, straight, which means you may not be able to lift as much because you might have gotten used to a particular grip, which means you're stronger with a grip that's not beneficial. So I'll change the grip, but here's what I would do first. First thing I would do is I would void barbell and I would stick to all dumbbells and I would maintain a real straight, strong grip that doesn't cause pain in my wrist. Wait till the pain subsides, then when you go back to barbell work, go much lighter and get used to a different grip on the bar or a way that doesn't hurt your wrist. I would also try something that's pretty unconventional. If you have access to kettlebells, bottoms up press, just because it's so revealing as to where you're not properly stabilizing. You don't have the strength to keep that nice tight fist because it's going to be moving on you. It's going to be moving left to right, it's going to be moving front to back. It might even try to rotate on you and so you have to account for that while you're pressing it up super slow and this is a very challenging exercise on its own, let alone somebody with wrist issues. So I would go very light and really like try and work on that for quite some time until you feel like you have a solid stable grip with that. I love that recommendation because that was the direction I was going to go. The other, Justin, I don't know there's names, you would know the names better than I would. There's good Indian club exercises too. I don't know if there's... There are. There are wrist rolls and different types of casting movements that you can do with the Indian clubs and basically you can roll your wrist in circles, different directions. There's plenty of videos on that. I think I've even done some of the videos on that as well, but that would be very helpful for you as well. Yeah, so Nick, the thing you're going to want to be careful for because it's going to be very tempting to wear wrist braces and wrist wraps so that you... I started with wraps. Now I've gotten so used to it. Yeah. Yeah, because what'll happen is it just... And I know why it's tempting, right? You don't want to go lighter. So you're like, I'm lifting this much. If I wear the wrist brace or wrist wrap, I can continue to lift heavy and do this lift, but I caution you because if your wrist continues down this path, I mean, your hands connect you to everything you do with resistance training for your upper body. And even for some lower body stuff, I've known people who can't squat because of wrist problems because they can't put their hand back on the bar. So I would say go with dumbbells, go lighter and start to get used to a different grip, a strong, straight grip. And don't worry, you'll get back to where you were before, but then you won't be limited by wrist pain anymore. By the way, I experienced this myself for a long time. For a long time, I pressed with a thumbless, what they call suicide grip. My wrist would be bent back and I ended up getting good at it. And if I did another grip, I had to go lighter. So I was really hardheaded about it. And I did what you did is I put the wrist wraps on, did the whole thing. And it just became a big problem. And it's like, okay, I want to be able to work out without needing all these aids on my body. So I had to back off. It took me a few months, but then I got back to where I was and then I surpassed it. And I was able to surpass it with better biomechanics. All right, cool. Thanks for calling in, Nick. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for having me. No problem. All right. I knew Justin was going to go that direction. That's a good one. It is really tempting when you're working out and you notice a little bit of joint pain and you're hitting PRs and you're like, do I work on mobility or do I just put on a knee brace or do I work on mobility or do I just put on wrist wraps or whatever? It's really, this was a big problem for me when I was younger. Me too. I mean, maybe Justin's the only one of us that didn't do this as bad. I definitely did this with almost everything. He wasn't strong enough to have trouble with it. I stayed in the lightweight range of the gym. So I was just fine. Yeah, no, it's, I mean, very common. This is one of those things that, especially do a lot of barbell work and you're not addressing these things right away, it's just going to catch up to you. Just like with the shoulder, like any kind of position that's not ideal, you're going to end up inevitably hitting that wall where it's going to talk to you with pain.