Prevention: The most effective offense is an effective protection!
Callus Administration
In case you CrossFit recurrently, you’ll start to construct up calluses on the bits of your fingers that rub while you’re hanging onto one thing.
It’s crucial that you just don’t allow them to construct as much as the purpose that they’re tremendous thick and can rip off in a single large chunk impulsively.
To keep away from that, you’ll must shave them down with one or a mix of the next instruments —
Phrase of warning: don’t shave them down a lot that you just solely have a wafer-thin layer of pores and skin left. You need some callus to stay, only a a lot thinner callus!
And, don’t neglect to moisterize! You need your calluses to be tender and supple. Listed here are some merchandise that assist:
Gymnastics Grips
Many individuals like a protecting layer between their fingers and the pull-up bar, and gymnastics grips are one option to obtain that.
Holding onto the bar is considerably tougher total while you’re sporting gymnastics grips, as they successfully enhance the diameter of the bar. Subsequently we advocate them provided that you have already got a comparatively robust grip (and in case you recurrently end up finishing a whole lot of reps of hanging actions.)
The sexiest grips on the market are these ones —
Thumb Tape
In case you’re hook gripping your Olympic lifts (which we KNOW you DEFINITELY ARE ALWAYS), chances are you’ll discover that a bit piece of pores and skin on the facet of your thumb retains rubbing off.
Enter thumb tape. Elastic tape works greatest (you’ll want to purchase a roll of this, we don’t inventory it within the health club.) All you want is a brief strip to wrap across the base of your thumb the place it rubs. If non-elastic tape is all you’ve got, you possibly can lower a bit in half (so it’s half the width) and use that (in case you depart it to huge it’ll be onerous to bend your thumb.)
Tear Administration
In case you tear, go along with fundamental first help:
Wash the tear totally
Lower off any free pores and skin with sharp little scissors
Bandage: shield the wound and preserve it as moist as attainable.
HydroSeal Bandaids are wonderful in case you can take it simple sufficient in your fingers that they don’t fall off instantly
Common Bandaids plus Neosporin, Aquaphor, or different moisturizing/therapeutic lotion
After which proceed to the protective / therapeutic part:
Bathe in dilute salt water: this stings however can actually assist your tears heal sooner.
Take it simple on the grippy stuff, and shield your fingers with gymnastic grips or make your individual tape grips!
