How to take care of your Cross Training hands

If you have been lifting iron for some time and balancing in the rack, you will have already dealt with the Crossfiter's war wound: getting up a callus. This wound is the most common in the box but can be avoided if you know how to take care of your Crossfiter hands. In this first part, we want to explain the Basic care to prevent calluses, hardness and wounds.

How to prevent the calluses from your hands if you practice CrossFit?

It all depends on your bar of the bar, on the rack or the kettlebell. The calluses are hardness that appear in the skin of the hands, and of the feet, by continuous friction or the pressure against an object. In the case of crossfit, It is due to the friction of the rack bar when performing gymnastic movements such as dominated, toes-to-bar or muscle-ups, especially with kipping or balance. Successive repetitions of these movements with balance make your hands friction with the bar, wearing the skin. The same goes for the Olympic bar, dumbbells and kettlebells. Its use creates a skin pressure which reacts by creating a hard layer to protect the epidermis. Therefore, unless you wear gloves or Grips, the hands of a crossfiter will always have calluses. However, they can be prevented Changing the grip. Instead of taking the bar with the palm of the hand, Try to grab it from the fingertips. Even more uncomfortable at the beginning, this grip avoids catching the skin of the palm and friction when making a movement.

How to avoid hand injuries if you do CrossFit?

As we have seen, calluses are law of life in the box, but Yes you can prevent them from getting up Following these tips.

Do not pass with magnesium: Improve your grip, but dry your hands and help form hardness and calluses.
Hydrates your hands daily: Use a high -fat moisturizer, such as karité butter, to hydrate your hands after training. Surely you also relieve you the trenching and dryness that you notice after making so many dominated.
Lima the calluses and hardness: After the shower and before throwing cream, use a pumice stone or a nail lime to polish the hardness of your hands.
Once a week, scrape and shave locks: If you train a lot or notes that the Lima is no longer enough, dedicates one day a week to scraping the calluses and even wearing a blade to remove the hardness and dead skins from your hands. And don't forget to hydrate them later.

Take care daily or weekly your hands help you Avoid injuries since the extreme dryness of your hands or the deep calluses will rise with the rubbing of the bar. In addition, surely you notice that your hands hurt you when you take the bar because Your calluses are tan hard and deep that are stuck in the skin.

What products do I need to take care of your hands?

If we talk about calluses and hardness, we recommend you Use the same products you would use for your feet. After all, the calluses are calluses.

Manual or electric pumice stone
Hard grain files
Short callos blade
Scissors (to remove dry skins or if you are very careful for hardness)
Moisturizer for calluses and hardness

In addition to these products, they exist in the market Creams specialized in the care of the Crossfiters hands. In addition to hydrating, some creams include soothing and healing properties that help you cure those war wounds before. Taking care of a Crossfiter's hands is not a luxury, it is a necessity. Think that they are your main tool during training and, if they are not in conditions, you will notice your final performance. And taking care of your hands is not a matter of aesthetics. Unless you love to have bloody hands during the WOD, it is better to avoid it to the fullest file the calluses. But sometimes it happens that you raise that callus tan Hard your hand and end up soaking the blood rack. It is not pleasant but they are things that happen. And it is in this circumstance that you have to be more careful if possible to cure your hands as soon as possible and return to training.

How to take care of the wounds of your Crossfiter hands?

If after a wod you end up with a lifted callus or blood hands, this is what you have to do:

Wash the wound with soap and water to remove magnesium and other impurities (that is squeeze).
Remove the excess skin Using Box kit scissors.
Disinfect The wound.
Cover the wound With bandages or dressings.

The wounds in the hands of Crossfiter take to heal 7 to 10 days. With which, better to leave the dominated for some time 100% recover. You can always train the occasional weakness at that rest time. Even so, if you touch a wod with rep in it Rack, we recommend you:

Apply a bandage in the area to protect the wound.
Wear Grips, tape, tape or gloves to make sure you don't get worse.

During the recovery process, do not forget what to cure daily.

If the wound is very important, disinfect two or three times a day To avoid infections.
Change the bandage After the cure.
USA A healing cream or an antibiotic for topical use until the wound is closed.

Of course, we advise you not to abuse local antibiotic creams such as blastoestimulin since, over time, your body develops bacterial resistance and would no longer have an effect. It is better to use them in very deep open wounds. Yes you have only lifted a superficial callus and not bleeding, with disinfecting and protecting the wound is enough. Finally, when the wound is closed, Remember to use a moisturizer to help skin regeneration.

Why hydrate your Crossfiter hands is essential?

We have already explained it to you, but we want to insist on the Importance of taking care of your hands daily. Good hydration with a high lipid content like karité, they help you avoid:

that the superficial calluses become deep hardness that are encolated in your palms When you take the bar.
They hurt your hands during the WOD.
that your calluses are lifted for being very dry and hard.

As you do with your post-sign protein shakes, it establishes A HAND CARE ROUTINE Simple: Limar and hydrate. On the other hand, we recommend you Remove rings and bracelets of your hands and dolls to prevent wounds and injuries.

What if I make a serious wound in my hand?

Be a very deep wound or because you have many skin lesions, it is better than You go to a health professional. Whether in the pharmacy of your neighborhood, in the emergency department or in the nursing consultation of your health center, a professional can help you better those serious injuries. In addition to cleaning and healing the wound, they will recommend adequate medications for your case (self -medication is not a good idea). Therefore, in doubt, Go to your doctor to guide you towards the best treatment. And you, what care do you usually do when you have a wound in your Crossfiter hands?