Blisters and calluses

Take a sledgehammer and wrap an old sweater around it. This is your "shovelglove." Every week day morning, set a timer for 14 minutes. Use the shovelglove to perform shoveling, butter churning, and wood chopping motions until the timer goes off. Stop. Rest on weekends and holidays. Baffled? Intrigued? Charmed? Discuss here.
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albol
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Blisters and calluses

Post by albol » Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:42 pm

Hi,

I've been doing shovelglove for just over a month (No-S for nearly four months). While I'm feeling fitter and starting to see visible results from it one of the major drawbacks is that blisters and calluses have started to develop on my hands. What do other shovelglovers do to prevent this? Being honest, I've never done any sort of weight-bearing exercise before so I'm not really that aware of the possible problems and how to prevent them.

Thanks for reading,
Al.

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Post by reinhard » Tue Aug 20, 2013 1:33 pm

I use gloves (and still have slight, but un-troublesome, calluses -- worker's hands!).

The gloves have made a big difference, though.

Here's the exact brand I use:

Harbinger 143 Men's Pro FlexClosure Gloves (Black)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... aysyste-20

I'm on my second pair in close to a decade, so they last.

Reinhard

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Post by germanherman » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:32 pm

Blisters leading to "macho" hands :lol:

For starters i would recommend some gloves like the ones reinhard linked.

But after a while i would drop them and harden the hands.

After i added some more exercises in my "shovelglove" i found this two tipps:

http://www.beastskills.com/contrast-baths/

http://www.beastskills.com/removing-calluses/
Spend over 450 Dollar on some Systems, Gadgets and courses = Zero Results

Spend 15 Bucks for a Shovelglove + NoS-Diet= ;)

German by nature

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Post by reinhard » Fri Aug 30, 2013 1:03 pm

Great links, germanherman.

May investigate the hand-hardening angle further at some point...

When I first started I didn't use gloves, but I found that the combination of heavier hammers and hot, humid weather made things uncomfortable (and of course I wasn't following any of the steps described in the links you posted).

Reinhard

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