First time ever - Bruised hands

[JowGaWolf]

Sooooo. I've been doing new grip training and my hands are bruised. Red palms from gripping an 8lb and 10lb slam ball. Looks like I've earned some rest from that exercise and some Dit Da Jow. I'm starting to think grip training and dumbbell press on the same day is a bit too much. I guess tomorrow will be an abs and legs day. My injured thumb (rehab thumb) like the training. It feels better now than it did a week ago. It's definitely stronger.

I'll give my hands a week or two to heal. This is the first time my hands got to a point where I didn't want to pick up anything. Not cool at all.

 

[Gyakuto]

Have a go at the sledgehammer exercises I’ve mentioned elsewhere. They are fantastic for muscular forearms! I do them every other day since, like gastrocnemius, the forearm muscles are resistant to growth!

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

Have a go at the sledgehammer exercises I’ve mentioned elsewhere. They are fantastic for muscular forearms! I do them every other day since, like gastrocnemius, the forearm muscles are resistant to growth!

I must have missed those- can you add a link or repeat what they are?

 

[Gyakuto]

I must have missed those- can you add a link or repeat what they are?

You mean you don’t follow everyone of my posts?

 

[Flying Crane]

You mean you don’t follow everyone of my posts?
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Chinese sword work, done with an appropriately weighted weapon, will do much the same. There are techniques that specifically use that same movement. Drill ad nauseam.

 

[JowGaWolf]

You mean you don’t follow everyone of my posts?
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I do this with my staff

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

You mean you don’t follow everyone of my posts?
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So you're essentially raising the sledgehammer and lowering it again? Is there a difference that you feel doing the weighted side vs. the long side?

 

[Gyakuto]

Chinese sword work, done with an appropriately weighted weapon, will do much the same. There are techniques that specifically use that same movement. Drill ad nauseam.

Yes I’m sure the idea isn’t unique.

 

[Gyakuto]

I do this with my staff

Your staff is weighted at one end?

 

[Gyakuto]

So you're essentially raising the sledgehammer and lowering it again? Is there a difference that you feel doing the weighted side vs. the long side?

No, it’s exactly the same, but I heard of this before…the thing you…mention.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

No, it’s exactly the same, but I heard of this before…the thing you…mention.

Wait..so if it's not that, but exactly the same, what are you doing? Am I just being dense?

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Your staff is weighted at one end?

The single head is good for that too.

 

[JowGaWolf]

Your staff is weighted at one end?

Yes. It's thicker on one end. It's like a small tree.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

I do this with my staff

Me too, but I don't really talk about it. Oh wait, you mean a bo. Never mind.

 

[Gyakuto]

Me too, but I don't really talk about it. Oh wait, you mean a bo. Never mind.

Bill!