THE GYM WILL BE CLOSED 7.5.10 FOR THE 4th of JULY HOLIDAY

Please take advantage of the travel workouts posted. Get outside and enjoy the beautiful morning weather with an interval run, swim laps, or practice your pull ups and double unders!

HAVE YOUR HANDS EVER LOOKED LIKE THIS:

EVEN WORSE, THIS:

Take some advice from Coach Jason: A new grip may be the solution.

I’ve noticed a lot of hands around the gym with those callouses on them, which can be good in places, but can also cause some nasty damage on a high rep pull-up workout if they get too bad.  Besides, who wants to have nasty calloused hands?  Some of you I’ve spoken to and shown how to avoid that by how you grip the bar on both pull-ups and deadlifts.  I used to have the same issues and had a couple of really bad tears before I saw this video and heeded Coach Rip’s advice.  When I started to use this finger, rather than palm, dominant grip my grip was weaker…but over the next few months it caught up.  Sometimes you have to take a step back before you can move forward.  I can’t think of a time my hands have gotten messed up since then due to callouses tearing, they just don’t get built up in those places like they used to.  Weekly maintenance also helps, in the form of a pumice stone, sandpaper like file made for heels (my favorite), and other tools with a little more umph like a dremmel tool or knife/razor blade.  Find which one works for you and, just like you foam roll daily…don’t you, use it regularly to keep those callouses you do have down to minimal levels.  Click HERE and watch this quick video on grip by Coach Mark Rippetoe from Wichita Falls, TX and please please start to do it…your hands and you will be much happier.