Wrist guard, knee guard and belt are three commonly used protective devices in fitness, which mainly act on joints. Because of the flexibility of joints, its structure is more complex, and the complex structure also determines the vulnerability of joints, so wrist guard, knee guard and belt are produced. However, consumers are still skeptical about the role of this kind of protective equipment and are also very tangled when purchasing it.
There are two main reasons:
1. Don't know the principle of joint protection with protective equipment?
2. There are many types of protectors on the market. I don't know which one to choose?
The answers to the above questions will be given below.
Wrist guard
The wrist is one of the most flexible joints in the body, but flexibility represents weakness. As can be seen from the figure below, the wrist joint is composed of several pieces of broken bones, with ligaments connected between them. If the wrist is subjected to improper compression for a long time, arthritis will occur. When we press the wrist, the excessive bending of the wrist is under abnormal compression, so we can prevent wrist injury by keeping the palm upright in line with the forearm, The function of wrist guard is to use its elasticity to help us break the palm back to the upright position.
You will know from here that the wrist guard with large elasticity will play a role in fitness, so the wrist guard with bandage type on the market has high elasticity and is a necessary protective device for fitness crowd, while the basketball wrist guard with towel material is mainly used to block the sweat flow of the arm to the palm of the hand, thus affecting the feel of playing ball, so it is not suitable for fitness.
If the wrist is injured, the basketball wrist guard and the bandage wrist guard are not the best protectors. They cannot prevent the wrist movement. The injured wrist needs to rest and wear fixed gloves to passively prevent the wrist movement.
kneepad
The flexibility of the knee joint is much lower than that of the wrist, but it is also a vulnerable part. In daily life, the knee joint bears a lot of pressure. According to research, the pressure from the ground to the knee when walking is 1-2 times that of the human body, and the pressure when squatting will be greater, so the elasticity of the knee pad is insignificant in front of the pressure, so the knee pad is also a redundant item for the fitness crowd, It is better to strengthen the quadriceps and hip joint to reduce the pressure on the knee than to wear knee pads.
And the bandage-shaped knee pads will help us cheat in squatting. This kind of knee pads will have a great rebound after being pressed and deformed, which will help us stand up more easily. If we wear this kind of knee pads during the competition, it will help athletes to win the place, but wearing the knee pads in normal training is deceiving ourselves.
In addition to bandage-type knee pads, there are also knee pads that can be directly put on the legs. This kind of knee pad can keep warm and prevent the knee joint from getting cold, and the other is to help people who have injured the knee joint to fix the bone joint and reduce pain. Although the effect is small, it will also have a little effect.
Belt
Here we need to correct a mistake. The fitness belt is not a waist protection belt, but a wide and soft waist protection belt. Its function is to maintain health, and it can correct the sitting posture and keep warm.
The role of waist protection is to correct or keep warm. Its role is different from that of weightlifting belt.
Although the waist belt in fitness can play a little role in protecting the lumbar spine, it can only be protected indirectly.
So we should choose the weight lifting belt with the same width in fitness. This kind of belt is not particularly wide, which is conducive to compression of abdominal air, while the belt with thin front and wide back is not very good for heavy weight training, because too wide back will affect the compression of air.
It is not recommended to use a belt when practicing weights below 100kg, because this will affect the exercise of the transverse abdominal muscles, which are also important muscles for stabilizing the body.
summary
In general, the use of squat pads in the body-building equipment will increase the pressure on the lumbar spine and cause injuries, and the use of knee pads will help us cheat.
Post time: Mar-03-2023
