Calloused or smooth: which is better?

[Jordan Rechsteiner]

I am writing less and less as there are fewer questions that I have these days. My hands are quite smooth as I have prefered them that way. Heavy negatives condition the hands and part of that is the heavier weights callous the hands better than standard reps alone. I wonder if the callouses made from heavy deep set negatives along with CCS distance negatives doesn't help hold the dogleg handle in the palm better or keep the handle in your palm from sliding around. Robert I know you mentioned that you shave/file off your callouses every few days. For myself, I wonder if I should actually do this. Also this could explain why I have had so much success with grippers after doing high reps-my hands use to have a calloused wall to help brace the gripper. What do you all think about this?


-Jordan

[Casey Bright]

I have very calloused hands. I think chalk and setting the gripper is really all you need for it to not slip around your hand. But for the question on not calloused. I have no idea. Ive never filed them down.

[Robert artmont]

When I sand them down, it takes the burn out of them for the next day. Right under the first line of the first joint of the fingers is where I get them... If they still burn the next day, I will wear a band-aid. If you were into pinching, smooth is the way to go.

[Danny Dino]

I am writing less and less as there are fewer questions that I have these days. My hands are quite smooth as I have prefered them that way. Heavy negatives condition the hands and part of that is the heavier weights callous the hands better than standard reps alone. I wonder if the callouses made from heavy deep set negatives along with CCS distance negatives doesn't help hold the dogleg handle in the palm better or keep the handle in your palm from sliding around. Robert I know you mentioned that you shave/file off your callouses every few days. For myself, I wonder if I should actually do this. Also this could explain why I have had so much success with grippers after doing high reps-my hands use to have a calloused wall to help brace the gripper. What do you all think about this?


-Jordan

My hands look pretty smooth but yet I can do a bunch of holds and reps for a long brutal training session and my skin doesn't feel anything and no callouses are formed after. I don't even use chalk and I'm guessing my hands have adapted after all the years of training on the grippers.
I guess the callouses go away and the skin stays really tough because my hands look totally clean and smooth yet I can grip away on my #2.5 and #3 and my skin is uneffected. Maybe someone can explain this better.

[Jordan Rechsteiner]

My hands look pretty smooth but yet I can do a bunch of holds and reps for a long brutal training session and my skin doesn't feel anything and no callouses are formed after. I don't even use chalk and I'm guessing my hands have adapted after all the years of training on the grippers.
I guess the callouses go away and the skin stays really tough because my hands look totally clean and smooth yet I can grip away on my #2.5 and #3 and my skin is uneffected. Maybe someone can explain this better.

Thank you for that Danny. I thought I was alone with having no callouses from training. I thought it meant I wasn't training hard enough (although I could be training harder). Thank you for the feedback on that.

-Jordan