Wrist hurts

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My right wrist is hurting a little, if I roll my hand and try to move my wrist in a certain way. It does not hurt enough that it can stop me from doing anything, but concerns me. I am left handed if that matters. I have steadly been doing more push ups and am doing over 100 each day. I sometimes have to help unload a lot of heavy boxes at work for a few hours. I still want to do the push-ups so I have started doing them on my knuckles tonight. That puts little if any strain on my wrist. I don't work tomorrow so hopefully it will start feeling better. Just reread it and realized how I formatted my sentences is awful...awe well, I don't care to rewrite it.

Buy a wrist brace from the store, or a medical roll bandage that you can strap around the wrist to give it more support. I wrenched my left wrist badly a year or two ago, and it hasn't been the same since. If I lift heavy stuff it acts up. I have one of those medical roll up bandages, that I wrap around it when it is sore, and that helps.

Two wrist stretches

The first stretch: Get on your hands and knees but make sure your fingers and palm are facing towards your knees, now stretch your butt back to your heels. You will start to feel a really good stretch in your wrist area, try not to push it too far.

The second stretch: Hands and knees position again but have your palms and fingertips facing opposite direction so left and right, now push your weight from left to right, working the wrist area again.

You can also try wrist curls with light weights which might help.

I kinda think pushups are a bit hard on the wrists personally. I don't do them much and don't really care. Knuckles could do it, but you might be able to have them be a bit more comfortable and emphasize different muscle groups if you just put your hands farther forward, backward, or use a wider "grip." Also, those "Perfect Pushup" things on TV are actually quite good, too, and put your wrists more neutral. If you don't want bearings in them and them moving, you can buy equivalent things that are just handles.

Anyway, for me, I tend to get hurting wrists from doing overhead presses/jerks/etc. Generally all I do is just at the end of the work out and beginning, just stretch my hands to make them at 90 degrees each way, and just do it until the pain goes away. My latest wrist wrecker (well not really wrecked, but made them a bit painful) was one armed snatches with an Olympic barbell, only got to 70lbs, though.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCKuLT9wqP8[/youtube] You can see how balancing a bar like that would be hard on the wrists.

The main thing that'd hurt my wrists like crazy to the point I was taping them was front squats, before I learned to lay the bar more on my shoulders and try less at just gripping it. So look into technique changes first, but my favorite braces/support/etc is just tape.

The other thing, too, not that 100 pushups is really that extreme of a volume, but my philosophy with strength training is to not use lots and lots of volume. Me personally, I've always gotten pulled ligaments/tendons/etc when doing lots of volume, and basically no injuries at all when just trying to go heavy. Basically, my theory is, your joints have a set number of "reps" you can do with them in your lifetime, so you're sorta wasting your time if you're doing a gazillion million reps, as your joints, I think it's less the weight/load placed on them, but more the reps. That's why runners get messed up knees/etc, just the sheer volume they place on themselves.

So 100 isn't like, a lot lot, but if you're just starting out, it could be. A lot lot is like, a thousand or 500 or so a day. But you might be better off cutting some volume and then using either a resistance band or doing weighted pushups instead. Or as I said, it could be as simple as just messing with grip angles and stuff. I just felt the need to interject that, as me and volume seem to not agree, on vacation I was doing a few hundred Hindu squats a day some days, and now I got an MCL sprain, another time I gave myself tendinitis in the back of my knees from doing like a hundred overhead squats with like 10lbs over my head in a day. But, some people have no problems with it, I do though.