Wrist Stretch - Front

Recommendations: 1-2 Sets, 10 Dur

Beginner Forearms Strength Body Only Pull Gym

Purpose: This exercise stretches the tendons running down the front of the wrist.

Benefits: This exercise focuses on the front of the wrist, a muscle group that hardly is ever exercised in the gym.

Stand or sit comfortably. Bend your right hand back at the wrist. This is your starting position. Press down on your fingers with your left hand. Keep the fingers straight on the right hand. Press for about 10 seconds. Release. Stand or sit comfortably. Bend your left hand back at the wrist. This is your starting position. Press down on your fingers with your right hand. Keep the fingers straight on the left hand. Press for about 10 seconds. Release.


A complete forearm program must achieve balanced development for all major forearm muscles. The forearm is involved in six different forearm movements. They include wrist flexion, wrist extension, wrist abduction, wrist adduction, forearm pronation, and forearm supination. There are additional muscles found in the forearm that are involved in movements like elbow flexion (brachioradialis), finger flexion, and finger extension.

Step 1

Bend your right hand back at the wrist.

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Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart or sit comfortably on a flat bench. Bend your right hand back at the wrist, palm up. This is your starting position.

Step 2

With your left hand, press down on the fingers of your right hand, keeping the fingers straight. Hold for 10 seconds and release.

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Press down on your fingers with your left hand. Keep the fingers straight on the right hand. Press for about 10 seconds. Release.

Step 3

Bend your left hand back at the wrist.

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Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart or sit comfortably on a flat bench. Bend your left hand back at the wrist palm up. This is your starting position.

Step 4

With your right hand, press down on the fingers of your left hand, keeping the fingers straight. Hold for 10 seconds and release.

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Press down on your fingers with your right hand. Keep the fingers straight on the left hand. Press for about 10 seconds. Release.