Tricks To Help Keeps Wrists Straight Or Knuckles Up When Bench Pressing.

Do have difficulty keeping your wrists straight or "knuckles" up when bench pressing. Did they start to bend towards you and cause pain in your wrists in subsequent days.

Do you think this is a weakness in forearms or incorrect bar placement in my palms? 

You might have reviewed quite a few videos online and believe you are doing it correctly. However, you need not to be too worried about this, as it happens to the best of us at some point, especially if you are just starting.

The trick to getting it right is to lower the weight until you get the form correct. Make sure you are resting the bar on your lower palm and not below your fingers. Thumb-less grip might help with getting proper form as well. You may also find it easier to keep wrists straight with dumbbells compared to barbells. Joints take a while to strengthen relative to muscles, so keep that in mind as well.

Almost everyone had the same problem and couldn't correct their form without taking off too much weight. In this situation, you can get a wrist straps and lowered the weight briefly to get used to them. Not the best natural solution but may help with the pain.

You will want to increase your flexibility, it's not all about getting stronger only, but being balanced. Working out more at the end of range of motion will help increase flexibility faster. If you do dips instead of presses that may also help increase shoulder flexibility.

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