sore hands

crazycal1

i`m currently doing my partial deads once every 4th day.
what can i do to toughen the skin on my hands?
at the mo they limiting my lifting more than back recovery is!

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Tall

Not that you want to hear it but... Gloves/Straps/Chalk


You still squeezing your gripper?

crazycal1

lol i want to toughen my hands not baby em dude.
i do use chalk of course tho.
yup closed me gripper with 2 hands for the first time-
its a start.....

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Nath

I know exactly what you mean mate, my grip gives up before my back and ussually rips the callus's of my palms which is annoying. As far as I'm aware there is no quick fix, I'm not a fan of straps or gloves, I think ur better to just persevere and toughen the callus's.

You could experiment with different bars, at my gym we have numerous bars but 1 in particular has a better grip than the others.

Sorry, not a helpful post, more of a show of empathy. I'm picking the shredded skin f my palms as we speak

crazycal1

lol nath!
i`m stuck with me trap bar cos of my back altho tbh i`d use it anyway.
its made worse by the fact that ive had a 4 week break from training.
as for toughening them up by perseverance that dont seem to work much either lol
most useful thing ive found so far is to make sure i remove the hard skin that builds up with one of those skin grater things so theres less to rip off.
i was thinking of soaking me hands in salt water or sommat-
trouble is it dint work for the dogs feet so i`m guessing it ain gonna do me much good either.
while my back is holding up to training deads so often i wanna continue altho i guess i`ll drop to once a week again when i near my PB...
thanks bud

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Ali M

[quote=crazycal1;215508]lol i want to toughen my hands not baby em dude.
QUOTE]

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats is soo funny.

Plenty of gardening.

Young Gun

I can't really think of much aside from chalk or gloves and then extra grip work to compensate

Tall

Its whatever gets you over that plateau mate... If using gloves/straps helps you up your weight then thats 'additional grip work' (i.e. you are able to lift more weight, so your grip strength should increase as a result of the increase weight) - you can always back down to lifting 'raw' if your ego needs it.

crazycal1

lol@ you saying i lift with me ego.....
you got your 1000lbs yet heh heh heh!
if i started using gloves or straps shredded would kick my ass!
i have started doing chins with woolly gloves on tho to make them harder...

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splinter

I used to have problems with this!

I used to deadlift (raw) and my skin would peel off and my hands would start bleeding, looked like a ****ing nutjob in the gym deadlifting with bleeding hands!

When deadlifting I use a combo of gloves and straps.

Use neutrogena moisturising hand cream as well.

It seems to just be palms now which have say (thicker skin, which is yellow lol)

Quite a few people in my gym use sponges to do exercises with, seems to work for them!

But yeah, fiddle around with different ways of protecting your hands.