blackbelt2k
Senior Don Juan
anyone have a good way to rub out the caluses from lifting.. When i lift heavy, the only skin rips off, along with the new skin. Someone recommended i shave them down, but how exactly do i do that?
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caluses from lifting
- Thread starter blackbelt2k
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Quiksilver
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I love the caluses.
There's nothing more saddening than a guy with soft, silky hands.
If youre concerned about them, wear gloves.
About treatment, don't touch them, over time they'll come off when they're ready.
There's nothing more saddening than a guy with soft, silky hands.
If youre concerned about them, wear gloves.
About treatment, don't touch them, over time they'll come off when they're ready.
blackbelt2k
Senior Don Juan
no gloves here..i like them, but when you lift heavy, the top old skin peels off with the new skin.. one of the older powerlifters at my gym suggested i shave them, but i didn't get a chance to ask him how and with what?
Heart Break Kid
Master Don Juan
If you mean the one's under your fingers on your palm side, suck it up. Like Quik said, you don't want soft, silky hands. 
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The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
ValleyDJing
Master Don Juan
Calusus build character.
stronglifts
Master Don Juan
Use a pumice stone. 2-3 times a week after your training. Don't go to hard, just the top of the callus.blackbelt2k said:
Next learn to grip your bar correctly.
The bar should be close to your fingers, not in the middle of your hand. Check the picture in the middle of the page of this article: How to Perform the Deadlift With Proper Technique
Also try chalk.
Good question btw, should be a sticky.
donjuanjovi
Senior Don Juan
120 grit sand paper.
blackbelt2k
Senior Don Juan
Thanks strong..yea, i've been using chalk, im almost out thoughstronglifts said:
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And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Why do you care if other people wear gloves? My gym doesn't allow chalk, I sweat like a beast, and I wear gloves when I do weighted pullups and deadlifts. I don't understand what is so macho about having callouses, I'd rather not have hunks of hardened skin and blood blisters constantly peeling off my hands.Espi said:
stronglifts
Master Don Juan
The problem with gloves:Slone said:
-the bar becomes thicker. You've got something between the bar & your hand. Those who have trained with fat bars know what I'm talking about
-it leads to other problems. Eczema's from sweating & wearing gloves. Maybe you're not prone to it, but many do.
-it's not allowed in competitions. better to build good habits, you never know.
blackbelt2k
Senior Don Juan
well as the guy at my gym put it, your cheating yourself by lifting heavy with gloves. You won't develop your grip strength.
Quiksilver
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Don't you mean straps, not gloves?blackbelt2k said:
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So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
blackbelt2k
Senior Don Juan
yes, sorry about that, i mean strapsQuiksilver said:
I think i'd be cheating my back NOT using gloves(straps) because my grip has always given out way before my back does on any exercise. I only use straps on the heaviest set of the day, though. I'm not goign to deadlift 340 today when i could be doing 380 with straps.blackbelt2k said:
Poo on my grip if it's at the expense of my back. I want a big, strong back. No one takes pictures of my forearms and sends them to their girl friends while i'm asleep. Yeah a girl did this to me by sending her friends pictures of my back from her cell when i was sleeping on my stomach without a shirt. Talk about motivation to keep it up after reading their responses when she admitted it to me a few weeks later...
As far as gloves.. i haven't done that in a long time but i have used them for benching before since my gym has no chalk and my hands get really sweaty on a real hot day and start to slide out-ward on the bar midset. The gloves keep them from sliding. I don't think they help on any other lifts because a thinner bar is easier to hold than a thick bar and gloves just make it thicker.
Why is "out-ward" without a hyphen censored?
blackbelt2k
Senior Don Juan
mrRuckus said:I think i'd be cheating my back NOT using gloves(straps) because my grip has always given out way before my back does on any exercise. I only use straps on the heaviest set of the day, though. I'm not goign to deadlift 340 today when i could be doing 380 with straps.
Poo on my grip if it's at the expense of my back. I want a big, strong back. No one takes pictures of my forearms and sends them to their girl friends while i'm asleep. Yeah a girl did this to me by sending her friends pictures of my back from her cell when i was sleeping on my stomach without a shirt. Talk about motivation to keep it up after reading their responses when she admitted it to me a few weeks later...
As far as gloves.. i haven't done that in a long time but i have used them for benching before since my gym has no chalk and my hands get really sweaty on a real hot day and start to slide out-ward on the bar midset. The gloves keep them from sliding. I don't think they help on any other lifts because a thinner bar is easier to hold than a thick bar and gloves just make it thicker.
Why is "out-ward" without a hyphen censored?
use chalk, it'll be like glue, and if your gym doesn't allow chalk, they fell a pad (liquid chalk, i think)
These are the only legitimate arguments against gloves I've seen so far. The thickness difference never bothers me, I don't get any skin problems, and I lift for strength, size, and basketball, not powerlifting competitions. If I'm sweaty and I don't use gloves for pullups/chinups, I slide right off the metal bar in my gym. I don't think anyone should feel discouraged against using gloves.stronglifts said: