My hands are getting destroyed

[CollegeKid]

ok, at first i thought it was cool when my hands started bleeding from deadlifting 335. but it's not so cool any more. my caluses rip off leaving raw skin and my wounds keep on opening and never healing from my different lifts. have any of you ever had this problem? can chalk help? i don't want to resort to gloves.. can anything make my hands tougher?

 

[spatts]

ok, at first i thought it was cool when my hands started bleeding from deadlifting 335. but it's not so cool any more. my caluses rip off leaving raw skin and my wounds keep on opening and never healing from my different lifts.

Hell yeah.

Welcome to the club.

 

[JOKER47]

ok, at first i thought it was cool when my hands started bleeding from deadlifting 335. but it's not so cool any more. my caluses rip off leaving raw skin and my wounds keep on opening and never healing from my different lifts. have any of you ever had this problem? can chalk help? i don't want to resort to gloves.. can anything make my hands tougher?

Make sure the bar is not moving in your hands while you are holding it. That will cause it to tear up your hands even more. Chalk might help keep it from doing that. If not, you can try working your grip to make sure you are gripping the bar firmly enough to prevent it from sliding in you hands while lifting.


Other than that, all I can think of is time.......

.02,
Joker

 

[CollegeKid]

.. i feel bad getting blood all over the bar . there's nothing that can be done??

 

[RusPA81]

Thats just life, in the world of the deadlift. Chalk will help you hold the bar, but it also drys the skin on your hands which may make it worse. None the less, I do not see how it is possible to do deads without chalk so I would get some. Eventually your caluses will get really rough and it will be much better.

 

[spatts]

Be glad you don't have long nails...sometimes it's hard to tell hand blood from the blood running down your leg from clawing yourself locking it out.

 

[CollegeKid]

thanks guys, i guess i'll have to get me some chalk this weekend.

 

[JOKER47]

Be glad you don't have long nails...sometimes it's hard to tell hand blood from the blood running down your leg from clawing yourself locking it out.

Oh, I hear ya....That and breaking a nail in the gym just pisses me off.....

 

[Hannibal]

Oh, I hear ya....That and breaking a nail in the gym just pisses me off.....

Pisses me off too...of course I lift better "pissed" so it all works out.

Nice avatar btw...JOKER

 

[JOKER47]

Nice avatar btw...JOKER

Thank you. That's my boy.....