joemac
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Hi.
I have been doing simple and sinister for several weeks. It's going well.
I do not have any issues with wrist pain whatsoever.
However, the book recommends simply hanging off a bar (which could be used for pullups) to both develop your wrist strength and stretch out your back.
I am trying to do this but the physical pain on my hand is intense. The issue is not my wrist, but the skin in my palm.
I first tried grabbing the bar from the middle of the palm of my hand, but this caused the bar to "drag" my skin and it was pure agony.
I tried simply gripping with purely my fingers and no wrist, and that removed the pain, but that can't be the correct way because I can see everyone gripping with their wrist.
I watched some youtube videos and talked to some people and it seems the correct way to do it is to grab the bar from the part of the palm where the fingers start and do not rotate your wrist around the bar as you grip it because that drags the skin.
I am trying this but it still hurts a lot. I can barely get through 10 seconds without stopping due to the pain of the bar "dragging" my skin.
Is it the case that there exists some "correct" method to grip and hang from a bar such that if I do it correctly then I won't have any pain, or is it the case that you just have to put up with the pain until calluses develop and then the pain goes away?
I have calluses from kettlebell but they don't help at all when hanging.
Also, the simple and sinister book did not make it clear to me if calluses on the palm are a good or bad thing. On the one hand, it seemed to say that their development is a good and natural thing as your hands get adjusted to frequent kettlebell use, but then it seemed to say that calluses need to be managed with proper hand care which seemed to mean that they are a bad thing.
Either way, I'm not sure what should be my attitude towards my beautiful new kettlebell calluses.
Thank you.
Ilya
I have been doing simple and sinister for several weeks. It's going well.
I do not have any issues with wrist pain whatsoever.
However, the book recommends simply hanging off a bar (which could be used for pullups) to both develop your wrist strength and stretch out your back.
I am trying to do this but the physical pain on my hand is intense. The issue is not my wrist, but the skin in my palm.
I first tried grabbing the bar from the middle of the palm of my hand, but this caused the bar to "drag" my skin and it was pure agony.
I tried simply gripping with purely my fingers and no wrist, and that removed the pain, but that can't be the correct way because I can see everyone gripping with their wrist.
I watched some youtube videos and talked to some people and it seems the correct way to do it is to grab the bar from the part of the palm where the fingers start and do not rotate your wrist around the bar as you grip it because that drags the skin.
I am trying this but it still hurts a lot. I can barely get through 10 seconds without stopping due to the pain of the bar "dragging" my skin.
Is it the case that there exists some "correct" method to grip and hang from a bar such that if I do it correctly then I won't have any pain, or is it the case that you just have to put up with the pain until calluses develop and then the pain goes away?
I have calluses from kettlebell but they don't help at all when hanging.
Also, the simple and sinister book did not make it clear to me if calluses on the palm are a good or bad thing. On the one hand, it seemed to say that their development is a good and natural thing as your hands get adjusted to frequent kettlebell use, but then it seemed to say that calluses need to be managed with proper hand care which seemed to mean that they are a bad thing.
Either way, I'm not sure what should be my attitude towards my beautiful new kettlebell calluses.
Thank you.
Ilya