A Victory for the hands, courtesy of Diesel Crew

Tonight an amazing thing happened… I did the snatch test without chalk, and without having my hands even slightly getting torn up.     Because for the past week, I have been shaving down the calluses on my hands daily with one of those silly “as seen on tv” Ped Eggs. Looks like someone took one of those kitchen “microplane” cheese graters, made some minor modifications and then for whatever reason stuck it in the middle of a hollow plastic “egg” shape.   I will not deny that I felt silly purchasing it last week, the ubiquitous “Telebrands” logo on the box.  BUT I had had a good reason for giving this $10 thing a try – the guys from Diesel Crew were saying they saw some of the top RKCs at the certification weekend toting them around and using them.

People… we have a big deal on our hands..   because THEY WORK.   Previously I had been chalking my hands liberally during exercise then pumicing the heck out of my hands and then applying the other thing you see RKCs tote around with them – that oddly ugly bottle of “Corn Husker’s Lotion”.  This method was working pretty ok, but I would still get large calluses and of course rip them and make blisters on anything past 100-200 reps.  Today that ended.   I tagged along to the local Gold’s Gym with my 12kilo and a gymboss – and proceeded to raise the temperature in the little “stretching room” by at least 5-6 degrees by doing the snatch test (with 45 sec. to spare), then 10 minutes of TGUs and 10 minutes of swings.  I then proceeded to do mixed grip pull ups for fun (close grip, tactical, one hand on bar the other on a towel, fingertip).   At the end of this I noticed with a feeling of absolute joy, that I had no calluses, and more importantly no blisters or torn calluses.   AT ALL.   I hadn’t even used chalk during the snatches/swings – mainly because they have a no-chalk policy (which made me panic a lil but I’m glad I pressed onward).   So yeah, BIG THANKS to the guys from Diesel Crew who put me onto this Ped Egg contraption – I think the appropriate cliche here would be “game changer”.