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I love to lift heavy and pride myself on always pushing myself to lift heavier each time I attempt any given exercise . Right now, however, I’m still dealing with an overuse injury with regards to my right wrist. I suffered from tendinitis in high school and due to an over abundance of push-ups and burpees in my workout a couple of weeks ago have been experiencing some weakness in my right wrist. I have continued to work out but have been doing much lighter weight than normal and avoiding any exercise which hurts.

During today’s kettlebell class, I got to do two sets of kettlebell thrusters. The first time through I used 15# KBs, which while it didn’t hurt I could feel my wrists weren’t very steady through all 10 reps. So when I got back to this part of the workout, I dropped the weight to 10# KBs and my form is so much better. When you’re lifting, it’s very important to listen to your body to avoid injuries due to bad form. I’m pretty sure if I had kept the heavier weights that I would have lengthened the recovery time for my wrist. Thankfully though, I listened to my body and my wrist feels better than after my last arm workout.