About a week ago I was doing heavy doubles on rackpulls and got a blood blister underneath the callus on my palm directly under my right ring finger that exploded and ended with my callus ripping off. I rested it for 3 days and the skin seemed to have healed over it.
Now though the skin has ripped again and bleeds whenever i lift. Now more of the skin is ripping and I think I’ve been trying to compensate for it by putting less pressure on that part of the hand and more pressure elsewhere leading me to develop blisters elsewhere on my hand.
I was thinking about maybe taping my hands or something. Anyone run into this problem?
Im on week 6 of a ten week test/tren cycle and dont want to have to take a week off or something to let the skin fully heal.
Not exactly a traditional injury but is definitely starting to effect my training.
[quote]Arem wrote:
About a week ago I was doing heavy doubles on rackpulls and got a blood blister underneath the callus on my palm directly under my right ring finger that exploded and ended with my callus ripping off. I rested it for 3 days and the skin seemed to have healed over it.
Now though the skin has ripped again and bleeds whenever i lift. Now more of the skin is ripping and I think I’ve been trying to compensate for it by putting less pressure on that part of the hand and more pressure elsewhere leading me to develop blisters elsewhere on my hand.
I was thinking about maybe taping my hands or something. Anyone run into this problem?
Im on week 6 of a ten week test/tren cycle and dont want to have to take a week off or something to let the skin fully heal.
Not exactly a traditional injury but is definitely starting to effect my training. [/quote]There’s a very fine line between manning up and genuinely letting an injury heal for the sake of prudence. You might think you can just train thru it or around it and probably believe you dont wanna waste a weak of aas by de-loading for a week. But which is really the lesser of two evils. By all mean if you can work around it do so. But there are worse things in the world than resting for a whole week even on aas to let a legitimate injury heal up.
I just had a slight tweak which I treated by taking 5 whole days off altogether and 8 days between that injuried body part. The result, 8 days later I was healed and established a new PR because of it. Don’t fear time/off or de-loading. The bigger and stronger you are the more likely you need it
Thanks for the replies. The problem basically was that any lift I did with free weights or a bar would rip it more due to the etching on the handles.
I’m using a small piece of cloth to tightly wrap around the area I grip on both hands to stop this from re-aggravating the area. Seemed to work earlier today.
If it gets worse I’ll just take 4-6 days off from heavy lifting and deload like you said Saps. Thanks a lot.
Also if you are like most of us your strength really sky rockets on tren further accelerating the need for some active recovery. Yes its true you can and should do more on the sauce than off but equally true you still can overreach and overtrain, especially if you under recovery
Regularly trim your callouses. I think the problem is your callouses are getting too large and they are getting pulled on by the bar and coming off as one mass. If you trim your callouses weekly, they will not be able to be pulled off by the bar. You can either use a nail file, pumice stone or you can purchase a callous shaver from a drug store. (the same kind women use on their feet).
[quote]beefcakemdphd wrote:
Regularly trim your callouses. I think the problem is your callouses are getting too large and they are getting pulled on by the bar and coming off as one mass. If you trim your callouses weekly, they will not be able to be pulled off by the bar. You can either use a nail file, pumice stone or you can purchase a callous shaver from a drug store. (the same kind women use on their feet).
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I’ve foun coarse emery/sand paper wraped around a small cardboard tube or wooden dowel (about same diameter as your standard bar) works well at removing excess callous.