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Painfull callouses 8-Jun-2005 At 10:05:37 PM Tav

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On 5/04/2005 new2thegame wrote:
>I have just recently amped it up to climbing twice a week and am finding
>that my callouses get sore about 1/2 way through the 2nd days climbing
>to the point where its affecting holding on.Any tips for relief out there?So
>far the crew at battlestar hardrock have suggetsted I seek out "klaus for
>zee lohshun for zee hans"

This happens to me sometimes. It's just getting used to it. If I boulder for the first time in a while or come back from time out or something it happens. Normally just resting up for a couple of days helps. I've found that it happens mostly if the skin at the base of my fingers gets pinched against a hold and then ground into it. It takes a couple of days to go away and the only cure I've found is more climbing. (Oh what a horrible cure!)

Lol. Good old Klaus...lotion is a personal thing. I've got friends who use it everyday they've climbed and others who say they learned through rowing that it only makes the chance of flappers worse. I don't because I like callous and also because it seems logical to me that softening your hands would take longer for them to toughen up and stuff. I know my harp teacher tried to throw a chair at me when I told her I'd used hand lotion once (you build callous on your finger tips when you play the harp. trust me, you need it)