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Apply Vaseline total moisture lotion or Neutrogena Norwegian formula hand cream every night before bed. If you do that, you will see a big difference.

Use a better Lubricant

Are you sure this is a callus? You generally won’t develop a callus in a single day. It sounds more like a blister to me. Calluses are not any kind of wound or injury, and don’t require “healing”. If it’s tender and/or inflamed and “puffy”, it’s a blister. Leave it alone—and maybe forget about the maxing next week. You need to toughen up your hand if you can’t wear a glove.

Actually Calluses are a form of healing,,It’s a response from your body. Stop doing what caused the callus to begin with and you won’t need to worry about it, otherwise it is just your body protecting itself.

well they called them calluses. but its really just a big chunk of skin that was ripped of the palm of my hand near the fingers because of the grip of the bar.

Use lifting gloves, that helps also.

@iRemy_y A “chunk of skin that rips off of your palm” is NOT a callus. Don’t be taking instruction from such a jackass. Calluses are “tough”, not “tender”. If you’re going to be doing a lot of lifting (or any kind of strenuous activity involving the palms of your hands, which would include rock climbing / rope work, sailing, water skiing, and many other ‘hand-intensive’ activities (not including fapping, for which I understand a tender hand is more desirable) then you want and need calluses to protect the skin.

@dukeG : lol! Seriously….I had calluses on my hands; I use a pumice stone to rub them off gradually while in the shower. Worked great.

calluses are good things IMHO. They only appear if you need them. Sort of a blue collar thing. I love mine. Most of the time when using sharp bladed tools when there is a slip and the blade goes into my hand palm it doesn’t cut but will leave a drag mark in the skin. It still is an “OH SHIT” moment but when no blood comes it becomes a “WHEW” moment. The drawback is womens boobs don’t appreciate the texture much.It’s feels scratchy I’m told. Oh well.

@woodcutter . . . I suppose you’re with the wrong kinds of women.

@taciturnu huh? Mostly women with subtle boobs I think

um somehow we got onto boobs… but i dead max 315lb today. so thanks for the help guys!

@iRemy_y Dammit! Congratulations! But you’ve hijacked the thread (yeah, I know it was your thread). I think we were talking about breasts here, weren’t we? Specifically, women’s breasts.

it was calluses i think

what about the problem with your body being unable to form a good hard callus? I am 55 yrs old and recently purchased an acoustic guitar after having not played for 10 yrs. My fingers form calluses, but not well enough to be able to play more than 1½ hrs b4 they hurt to the point that I cannot play any longer. It is not the guitar, as it is a nice Martin.