*** The 2017 Gym Rats Thread ***

GiraffePencils said:
Nice, well done.
In my experience, those are some quite injury prone exercises and you're doing really well at them!
Forget abs, not everyone was built to have chiseled abs
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You aren't kidding, I'm getting there and learning from my mistakes with each injury. I pulled something at the end of last week straining on pull ups for 'that last one's and I won't be doing that again.
 
For those of us that Crossfit you learn to look after your hands early. Don't get me wrong I am not digging them out of my hands, merely flattening and smoothing them off so they don't bunch up when you work out. It is the bunching up that is the problem, then they tear taking some of the good skin off.

I ripped 2 off in the first month leaving just red raw skin underneath. So gripping a barbell or the rig was horrendous.

**Edit** Yup what Giraffe said ^^. I do that also.
 
I would say, from my older workout that was one of those 'bar bros' things.
If you're getting bunching and sore calluses from pull ups (or the rig? if that's a crossfit thing) you should work on how you grab the bar.
Grasping at the base of the fingers to prevent that happening
 
Yup my technique has evolved to use the base of the fingers. But on longer workouts when you get fatigued and grip starts to die you do fall back into using that part of the hands.

I haven't ripped in a while now. Just take some care of the hands and its usually golden. Except when you blood blister under calluses....that is a right git.
 
Glad to see you've lightened up! :D

Joking aside, as long as people are throwing weights around and getting fitter, stronger and better - I don't really care how they do it. :)

Keep it up. :cool:
 
So, I'm getting pretty sick of being annoyed at my squat form.
Looking at signing up for an 'beginners weightlifting' workshop at Edinburgh uni. They cover the big three and also the oly lifts which is nice.
6 session course
 
Jester* said:
Amusing. Enjoy pretending calluses make you manly!
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*chuckles*

I don't - I cut mine off roughly every two weeks. But I use chalk when I snatch/clean/deadlift because I ha e ripped calluses off, degloved them (which actually feels worse) and all sorts.

Chalk is actually very helpful in reducing the amount of callus damage because the bar/rig moves a lot less in the hand. It does dry skin out, too, but I prefer undamaged hands. Having lifted with micropore tape over raw flesh only seems cool for a short period of time...

And yes - I do all my deadlifts with a hook grip, too. :)
 
Haha, ok I took your comment a little too.....deep.

But in my defence the amount of people I've met that dismiss handcare and make snarky comments makes me e-rage.
 
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