[bronzeager]

I wanted to get some variety along with my cardio (doing mostly elliptical and hiking) so I bought some yoga videos and yesterday started the Jillian Michaels 30-Day Shred video.

This morning I woke up with some numbness in my index and 3rd finger of my right hand and my thumb sometimes is trembling a bit. Also some tingling in the two last fingers and up and down the outside of my hand and upper arm (which I have had before and vaguely associate with shoulder exercises - front raises?). I would like to find out what is likely to have caused this in the video so I can drop it out or modify it. Does anyone have experience? Upper body in the video includes:

pushups (I did knee ones)
rows with weights
lying-down flys with weights
extended front arm raises with weights
standing press-ups with weights (don't remember if this the right name)

I don't know if this is caused by a wrist pinch or a shoulder pinch. I did realize that I had too-heavy weights (4kg/8lb) and did the moves without weights after the first set.

I started practicing pushups on my kitchen countertop a few weeks ago because I can't do a "real" pushup and have trouble holding the downward dog in yoga, and didn't have this problem before. But I don't have to bend my wrists the same way in countertop pushups, and the video made me do more than I usually do.

Susanne

[patchworkpenguin]

I'm not sure this is going to be much help but when I did P90x I had soreness in my wrists, but not like you discribe. I tried the pushup 'stands' but they didn't help. I got a suggestion to do the pushups on your closed fists while keeping your wrists straight, weight is on the parts of the fingers where we wear our rings. Hope that helps.

[bronzeager]

Thanks, I will try that, if my fingers are strong enough. I will try the video again and leave out each exercise separately and see if I can figure out it. Maybe it wasn't even the video and I just happened to sleep funny that night...

[kristyjoy]

I have this problem too. Going to get some push up bars today to see if that helps.