wrist strength?

[eldecee]

Hi Cathe, I've read all the other entries I could find on people have problems with their wrists and none of them addressed my specific issue, so I'm writing in. I've been doing your workouts for more than a decade and own nearly all of them. Your strength training workouts are the only ones I do and I've been doing them since your first one came out. I find that often (in the last few months at least) by the time I get to the end of my chest workouts (today I was doing Slow and Heavy Chest and Back) I can't finish the last reps at a weight I can otherwise handle or do the pushups because my left wrist just feels too weak--I'm fine on the right and have not hit exhaustion in my chest muscles, but my wrist just seems to not be holding up any more. While doing chest presses, for instance, my wrist wont stay straight; it seems to bend to the left, as though the weight is too heavy on the left side of the dumbbell even though it's even with the right side. I concentrate on keeping my wrists straight and using my chest muscles instead of my wrists to perform the movement. Are there any muscles that support the wrist that might help strengthen it? Any other ideas on what the problem might be or how to fix it? I don't have one of those jobs that is typically associated with CTS and have never injured it, and it's not from doubling up the dumbbells since I don't do that, especially not on chest exercises. Any advice? Thanks, Lauri