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[Pedal Wench]

Safest for shoulders is a narrow stance (hands under shoulders, elbows bend straight back, upper arms tickle your ribcage the whole way). I've read that people over 30 shouldn't do them any other way. Of course I ignored that advice the last time around. Don't let your shoulders go lower than your elbows.

Try keeping the weight in your hands - your whole hands, rather than your wrists, with the heads of your 2d through 5th metacarpals all touching the mat and the weight distributed through the tips of your fingers including your thumb. If that still bothers your wrists, you can use hand weights as rails so that you can keep your wrists in line. The kind with a neoprene coating would be even more comfortable.

I'm one of the ones who destroyed her wrist last time we tried this..

If using hand weights, what position would you use for the weights - weight handles parallel to the body or perpendicular?