Tuesday 100720

Skill

Kipping pull-ups/ring pull-ups

WOD

Complete for time:

Run 400m

50 thrusters, 75#/45#

30 double unders

50 thrusters, 75#/45#

Run 400m

Post time to comments.

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Mikey Sax gets inverted!

With some skill work on pull-ups today, it was timely that a recent newsletter from Catalyst Athletics (www.cathletics.com) shared another way to manage calluses:

Hand Care


Spend enough time on a barbell, and you'll develop calluses. This is good in the sense that your hands are adapting to the stress and becoming thicker and stronger where necessary. However, some of you find that those calluses can become the cause of problems significant enough to disrupt your training.

A callus rip is inevitable over the long term, but it should by no means be a regular occurrence – frequent callus tears mean frequent training disruptions. It's tough to make progress when you have to stop doing what you're doing all the time. The solution? Take care of your hands in a way that will minimize if not eliminate tears and allow you to continue training.

First, don't shave off your calluses. They're there for a reason. You want that thick, tough skin. What you don't want are rough or sharp edges that can hang up on the bar and start a tear. Some people get crazy with the callus shavers and take the skin right down to the weak stuff below. Or worse, they shave them down so much that the area formerly armored is now sensitive to the touch.

I prefer fine-grit sandpaper to any other tool out there (200-220 type stuff). Cut some pieces and fold them into little 2×2" or so squares and they'll be a little stiff, but flexible enough to get into the places you need. Smooth out the rough edges before and after workouts and you'll be fine.

To improve on this, start using a liberal dose of Cornhuskers Lotionevery day. Don't use your girlfriend's silly body lotion – it won't do the job. Just rub some into your hands every night when you're going to bed and pretty soon you'll have hands like baseball mitts. In fact, you might want to try rubber-banding your hands shut around a barbell-sized chuck of pipe all night to break them in.

 

5 thoughts on “Tuesday 100720”

  1. I, Kelley De Laney, will complete this WOD and every WOD preceeding as Rx-ed. . . No more pushups on my knees, no more #10 med ball, and no more singles on the jump rope!!!!( Along with many other things!) Oh boy oh boy 🙂 Thank you Crossfit Games 2010 for inspiring me!

  2. I have for a nuebmr of weeks tried a nuebmr of products to relieve itching and fungal problem in my feet. About three days ago I was desperate to find an alternative answer or remedy due to the annoying ich, when I read about raw honey, I did not have any at hand but did have capsules of Royal Jelly and open a capsule to spread its content on my affected toes. I went to sleep and it worked like magic, the iching is gone and my toes are healing from this persistant fungal problem. What a wonderful natural remedy. Thank you!!

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