CrossFit Ripped Calluses: Keep Them Flat, Heal Them Fast
CrossFit · Skin is gear

Rep 30 on the bar. Rip. Twenty more to go.

Pull-ups, toes-to-bar, muscle-ups: every rep on a kipping bar shears the same strip of palm. A tall callus rolls, lifts, and takes skin with it halfway through the workout. Here is how to keep calluses flat, palms dry, and a rip closed before the next WOD.

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Why rips happen

The callus you built is the one that tears.

A callus is the body's answer to the bar. It protects you until it gets tall. Then the kip pulls the bar across the top of it, the callus folds, and the edge tears away from the healthy skin underneath. Sweat makes it worse: wet skin is soft skin, and the bar drags instead of sliding.

Two habits fix most rips. File calluses flat so there is no edge to roll, and keep the palms dry so the bar slides. The third habit is closing a rip fast enough that you are back on the bar in two days instead of two weeks. Rhino was built for climbers' hands. A pull-up bar is just a very round hold.

A training week, day by day

From Monday's bar to Sunday's rest.

Where hands go wrong across a week of training, and what goes on at each stop.

Night before · Sun 9 PMDry palms show up dry.

Performance on the palms before bed. The bar slides instead of dragging. Less chalk tomorrow, not more.

PerformanceDry Spray
Pre-WOD · Mon 6 AMFlat calluses, no edge.

Thirty seconds with the file on anything raised. Thin chalk. Tape the spot that always goes.

80/100 Skin FileImpact ChalkRhinos' Own Adhesive tape
The rip · Mon 6:40 AMFinish, then deal with it.

Trim the flap flat, glue the edge, tape over it, finish the round.

Super glueRhinos' Own Adhesive tape
That night · Mon 9 PMClose it fast.

Split+ whipped balm on the rip. Repair on the rest of the palm. Two nights running.

Split+Repair
Back on the bar · ThuThick skin, not thin.

Tip Juice on the healed spot on rest days so the new skin comes in tough. Massage Cream on forearms and grip.

Tip JuiceMassage Cream
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What's in the gym bag.

Travel sizes live in the bag. The file goes everywhere.

Power Company Performance Kit
All of it, one boxPower Company Performance Kit

Toughen, grip, close, recover. The hand kit, in one box.

The whole routinePower Company Performance Kit$66.75$56.95
11 items · pick a size, hit Add
Every morning80/100 Skin File$2.00
The night beforePerformance$8.95
Spray versionDry Spray$8.95
Thin and evenImpact Chalk$19.95
Finish the roundSuper glue$2.00
Tape the ripRhinos' Own Adhesive tape$3.95
Whipped balm, ripsSplit+$8.95
Every nightRepair$8.95
Rest days, thicker skinTip Juice$12.95
Forearms and gripMassage Cream$8.95
The shower afterAll Natural Castile Body Wash$5.95
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Show us the rip.

Taped palms, the chalk bucket, the whiteboard. This wall is yours.

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