Sentences with phrase «wrist extensors»

Your forearms are a complex group of muscles composed of wrist extensors, wrist flexors and the brachioradialis muscles, that rarely gets the attention it deserves.

The wrist curl should be combined with the complementary wrist extensor exercise, which works the arm's opposing muscles, in order to encourage balanced muscle development.

The wrist extensors are a group of nine individual muscles on the back of the forearm that act on the wrist and fingers and help carry out complex movements of the hands such as wrist extension, or moving the top of the hands backward toward the wrists.

You can use a barbell, dumbbells or a bar attached to a cable, but make sure to go through a full range of motion on each rep. Overall, the muscle fiber type of the wrist extensors is slow - twitch dominant, so they will respond better to high rep sets with lighter weight and high training frequency.

As forearms are one of the body areas most commonly neglected by bodybuilders and wrist curls don't work the wrist extensors, these muscles are really weak in most guys, which limits their grip and pinch strength and can contribute to lateral elbow pain and injury in the long run.

Elbow and arm stretching exercises are usually most important when rehabilitating an elbow or wrist injury and include wrist flexors, wrist extensors, tennis elbow stretch and triceps muscle.

This exercise hits the wrist extensors.

The extensor muscles on the back of the forearm (wrist extensors) become suddenly overloaded causing micro tears of the tendon where it attaches to the elbow.

Stretching the wrist extensors can be an effective treatment for tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis.

Keep a «proud chest» position with your spine and hips aligned as you straighten your elbows to feel a stretch on your wrist extensors (in the forearm).

CW: It takes time to build up the wrists and you must stretch them to increase mobility: especially the wrist extensors.