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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 01:53 PM
Whenever I grab bars in the gym to exercise I always damage my skin on the bottom of the fingers in the palm and I'm looking for something that prevents that. I see guys who wear leather gloves but in my opinion they are just too expensive.
Is there anything that will help me solve this problem?
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 02:10 PM
Do you mean callouses? Wear them with pride.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 02:21 PM
I would try playing around with using a combination of athletic tape and chalk. Chalk is supposed to fill in the grooves in your finger and palm pads and prevent excess callus formation and tearing. Are you doing an extremely high volume training program? I rarely hear of problems like this outside of crossfit gyms due to their extremely high volume work. Keep in mind wearing gloves will probably decrease the weigh you can lift because it effectively increases the size of the bar. Wearing gloves should cause your deadlift to drop if your grip isn't disproportionately stronger than the rest of the muscles required for the lift.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 02:47 PM
Get some random foam rubber.Don't know where you live, but you should be able to easily get for free a few pieces, which are waste from pillows, matresses or some other shit.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 03:23 PM
What kind of weight are we talking?
In my head I'm imagining a guy who was never especially athletic or did hard manual labor. I would expect some skin tears to build callouses.
Tough hands are useful. But, u should be able to find leather workout gloves at any major chain gym store.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 03:30 PM
If you're talking about callouses, then they're part and parcel of lifting weights.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 03:54 PM
leather gloves but you shouldnt care if you get callouses, fucking hell, do some manual labour and you'll get them
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 04:56 PM
Everyone gets callouses when lifting weights, it's just part of the bodybuilding process. No pain no gain, remember? While gloves do help with skin protection there are some setbacks. While wearing gloves the longer you workout the more you sweat and the more damp the gloves will become. Eventually the gloves will end up smelling really bad unless you wash them. Another thing with gloves is you can't lift your potential while wearing them. The heavier the weight the stronger your grip needs to be to prevent weight slipping and causing injury to yourself. What I recommend for treating callouses is immediately after working out wash your hands in warm water with soap for a few minutes and then using a pummice stone on the affected areas in order to smoothen the skin a bit.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 06:21 PM
Hands give warning signals when I do shrugs but screw it.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 06:47 PM
sand down callouses so they are smooth or don't have edges, thats what catches and tears/peels on a bar or edge. Old tree planting trick.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 07:02 PM
I've got some gloves, but I never wear them because they affect your grip when playing with heavy weights. Keep at it, you'll form a nice tough callous soon enough.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 09:25 PM
Take a razor that you shave with and shave down the calluses so they won't rip off. If you let them get to big and you're doing a lot of pullups or cleans or KB swings they will rip.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 11:50 PM
my callouses rip all the time, but never during reps or gym time. There's still enough underneath so that it's not sensitive tissue.
Agree with Alpha Hunter Zero. Gloves suck, I used that shit for a year and been a few months glove-free. No comparison. My hands are beautifully calloused and I've got 10x more grip. The only thing I'd consider at this point is chalk.
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[Gym] Skin Tearing In The Palm Of The Hand
12-20-2012, 11:57 PM
Don't use gloves or grip pads. Use chalk. By some on Amazon for a few bucks.