Hand Wrap - Body Builder Fitness

The Proper Way to Wrap Your Hands A hand wrap helps protect the bones and tendons in your hands. In addition, they will help support your wrist and thumb. To help prevent injuries, always wrap your hands before working out.

Hand injuries side line more boxers than any other injury. Because there are so many small bones in your hand, it is absolutely imperative that you take every precaution available to protect them. Proper hand wrapping is the best method of preventing an injury that could keep you out of this great sport. We recognize the importance of protecting your hands and have provided the following instructions to teach you the proper method.

Please keep in mind that this is a general guide to hand wrapping and other methods do exist. We feel that the method below is a good starting point and covers all the basic points of proper hand protection.

	Step 1Your hand should be held open in a relaxed position, with your fingers spread apart. Begin by placing the hand wrap, thumb loop around your thumb and be sure that the This Side Down text on the hand wrap is against your skin. Bring the wrap across the back of your hand and wrap around your wrist 2 or 3 times. Be sure to wrap 2 inch to 3 inch ups from your wrist joint on the wrist to maximize support. You want to keep the hand wrap snug throughout this process, but not so tight that it will cut off your circulation.
	Step 2From the wrist, bring the wrap across the back of your hand and around your palm, then across the top of your knuckles.
	Step 3Wrap around the knuckle area 2 to 3 times. From the top of your knuckles, wrap across the back of your hand toward your wrist and around. This will create an x pattern across the back of the hand. Repeat the x pattern 2 or 3 times.
	Step 4 Continue around the palm of your hand to the base of your thumb. Wrap completely around your thumb and back toward your wrist on the palm side of your hand. It is important to keep the hand wrap from twisting while wrapping the thumb.
	Step 5Continue wrapping around the back of your hand to the thumb and once again wrap around your thumb, this time from the opposite direction.
	Step 6Wrap from the thumb over the back of your hand and around your wrist.
	Step 7Continue around your wrist, over the back of your hand and through the space between your pinky and ring fingers. Wrap around your palm back toward your wrist and repeat the steps for each finger. Be sure to keep the wrap as flat as possible and twist free.
	Step 8With the last finger completed, bring the wrap across the palm back toward your wrist.
	Step 9Continue wrapping across the back of your hand toward your knuckles.
	Step 10Wrap once more around the top of the knuckles and across the back of your hand toward your wrist.
	Step 11Secure your wrist with the remaining hand wrap. Be sure to wrap it snugly to provide support for your wrist.
	Step 12Fasten the Hook and Loop closure and you are done.
	Step 13The finished product should be a secure and protected tightly wrapped hand.