Hand care is extremely important when it comes to CrossFit training. In fact, it is essential for any form of workout or after an activity where your hands are stressed. CrossFit involves holding items that can be quite rough and it is particularly harsh on your hands. Here are some hand care tips that you might want to follow while working out to ensure that your hands remain soft and smooth:
First off, make sure that you are using hand grips. While we have been talking about it all this while, we can’t stress enough about how important hand grips for CrossFit are. Not only do you get a better grip, but they also keep your hands protected against abrasions.
Besides that, make sure you are properly washing your hands after your workout is done, and then applying hand creams and moisturizing your hands well. In case of cuts, bruises or blisters, make sure you are getting in touch with a medical professional and applying the ointment suggested by them.
In case your hands start to bleed because of any cuts, blisters, or bruises, make sure that you stop working out immediately and tend to it.
This is the biggest red flag when it comes to working out and needs to be immediately addressed. In case calluses develop, it is best advised to either get them shaved or to use a callus shaver and shave them off yourself. We’d strongly recommend you do it with professional help rather than doing it on your own.
These are some things that you should keep in mind while undergoing CrossFit training. You need to keep the fact in mind that in CrossFit exercises, hand rips, calluses, and bruises are very common and they are going to happen to everyone at some point in time. It is only with time that your hand toughens up and these things reduce. However, every small abrasion needs to be tended to and the better your hand care, the softer and smoother your hands will remain.
