Do you ever worry about catching a blood transmitted disease at the gym? I tear my calluses quite frequently and it's kinda worrying me.
>>35692262
How about not gripping the bar like a retard
>>35692356
Believe me I've tried, doesn't always work.
>>35692262
No, the really nasty blood borne pathogens wouldnt survive on fomites such as barbells
I think you can catch herpes (gladiatorium) but thats very rare
>>35692534
Oh, well that's reassuring to know.
>>35692262
How does this happen? I deadlift 335 lbs for 5 reps, which I know isn't amazing but it's 2x my bodyweight and I'm making progress, but I don't use chalk, grips or any of that shit. Not even a belt, and my hands still don't deal with so much stress I bleed out.
How much are you deadlifting for how many reps? My calluses are big and thick, but never tear. The most that ever happens is they crack a little during winter.
you can get worms sitting on sweaty seats
>>35692356
not him but for something like farmer's walks you need as much of your hand around the handle as possible, the normal grip isn't enough
>>35692616
200 kg 1 rep can easily tear a callus, maybe I just have shitty skin.
>>35692636
I have really sweaty hands which makes it really shitty because my calluses are always wet so they grow a lot, but when I DL heavy with chalk it just starts hurting for like 5 minutes and my hands get very dry for the next day, but i've never tore a callus.
My last 1rm was 230kg
>>35692262
i worry more about catching a seminal transmitted one from my locker room sesh's kek
all jokes aside wear some gloves or take a couple days off. it isn't gonna kill you but the thought of catching a disease, amputating the hand, and never being able to lift with it again just might
>>35692356
>>35692534
a fucking power clean with 1 plate can tear a callus.
just deadlifting usually doesnt tear anything, what reallt fucks your hands up is the bar rotation
>>35693133
The only callous I've ever torn have been during power cleans. Shit sucks.
>>35693133
>>35693175
Can confirm, and i only power clean 145 for 5x2. Deadlifts usually arent bad.
>>35693194
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTqNSgCmM2s
>>35692262
Almost definitely not. If you're really that worried about it just wear gloves.
>>35692414
This is the most useful thing I've seen since starting lifting
Only time I ever bleed is when I'm fucking up my deadlifts and whaling on my shins
Sucks but I always spray/wipe the bar afterwards; I'm clean anyway
>>35692262
>I tear my calluses quite frequently
Saw the picture and had hoped it was a rock climbing thread. >>35692616
>>35692636
Yeah, some people just have different skin. At the climbing gym I go to, it's common for new people to tear up their hands and never have any problems. I'm in your boat where I had something like 8 flappers (flaps of skin that come up) and had to tape for months. I don't know how common it is in lifting, but myself and many climbers grind down their calluses with a nail file. I seriously can't recommend this enough. It doesn't make the skin on your hands less tough and durable though it might sound like it would.
Even after climbing for a while when my skin had developed and gotten rougher, I still had the problem of calluses tearing off. Grinding them was by far better than taping after a couple months. Try it for a couple weeks at the very least. I never give advice on anything lifting related, but this is so directly applicable. Best of luck OP.
GRIPDRIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OK-S3ZJZxQ
Caught scabies on my hands once, got a whole week off work due to it being semi-contagious. Still went to the gym during that time.
how the fuck do people (other than the ones who diddylift 400+ kg) get such fucked callouses? my gym has bars and dbs with texture literally like fucking wood files and still I don't have anything worse than mild callouses (from middle finger to pinky). DL 5RM 240 kg, ~10 sets (ramping up) twice a week. pull the slack out of the bar before each rep you dumb faggots.
catching a disease from a bar would require someone with that disease to have used it just before you and have left some blood on it. you have higher chances to catch tuberculosis from a random hobo who coughed upwind from you in the street. not sure about all diseases, but HIV dies i
if you're super paranoid, just wrap your fucking towel around the bar. and for the love of god, if you do bleed all over the fucking barbell, wipe that shit off.
>>35694175
> rock climbing
it got me too
>>35692262
kinda. I go to a homo gym also.
>>35692414
>>35692262
>Not hookgriping
>Thinks he is a serious lifter because he tore some calluses
>>35696653
you can definitely tear callouses with hook grip. I did it last week when I was doing farmers Got to the end, put the weights down and my right palm was covered in blood
>>35695918
Lol I don't think we are that rare on this board. I think I'll make a rock climbing general thread soon and see how it goes.
>>35692534
>>35692601
Hepatitis can last up to 10 hours outside the body
HIV about 15minutes
>>35692262
no, because i'm the only person who uses my barbell
>>35694175
>>35695918
fellow climber!
I mostly stick too bouldering.
here is a great video on hand maintenance and care, i've followed it and havn't had many issues.
I got one flapper when a attempted a dynamic move on a like new hold. my skin stuck, but I didn't commit my grip and gave myself a big blister. kept climbing until it popped because I just had to get that one problem.
anyway, this video is the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otorSGl3sG0
>>35697551
yeah but you also have to consider uow many infectious virions are needed to get an infection going some viruses (ie norovirus) need like 10-20 (very low) but others needs 1000s
i havent heard of any case where someone gets hcv (or hbv) from using gym equipment. i suspect you need more blood contact
>>35692262
Clip your calluses when they get too big. If you don't have clippers, dig at them with a pencil or a tack. You can pull a lot of the skin off that way and even end up with some extra traction if you do a shit enough job.
