How to take care of your callouses and ripped hands for kettlebell training

What is going on guys? Pat Demiano here and today I'm finally going to give you all the answers you need that you're looking for regarding your calluses. I get DMs, comments, and questions all the time from people about how to handle calluses. What do you do when your hands are hurting using kettle bells? What do I do when a callus rips? Do I wear gloves? What are the things you're always wearing on your hands? Does chalk help? and so on. And we're going to cover all of that today. Now, before we dive into Cal's prevention tips, I have two honorable mentions for this video that I just want to touch on quickly, but I'm not really going to dive too uh too deep into in this video, but people ask about them all the time, so I do need to address them. Number one is chalk. Does chalk help? Chalk actually makes your calluses worse technically. So what chalk does is it takes any moisture, so in this case sweat, off of your hands and increases your ability to grip. Now by increasing that, it increases the friction. Science between your hand and the kbell or whatever you're holding on to. Now when you have increased friction, you have increased callus because it just roughs up the hands a little bit more. So sorry, but no, chalk is not going to prevent you from getting calluses. It'll actually make them worse, but chalk is going to prevent you from flinging a cerebell across the room. So, use chalk. Now, the other honorable mention here is gloves. You can call it toxic masculinity if you want, but gloves are just a no no in my book. It's as simple as that. I'm sorry. But if you do decide to use them, go ahead. But please understand that the reason they feel nice on your hands is because they're thick. So, you're not really holding on to whatever you're holding on to.