injury

[thoreau]

damnit. THis morning I was doing Dips (you know how I love them!) at the gym and I felt a blood vessel in the palm of my left hand pop. I let out a classic girly scream and nearly fell off the dip bar in the middle of the gym in front of everyone. Holy shit this hurts! I iced it once I got home and I'm icing it here at the office - but manohman did it smart! the whole right side of my palm is blue and black. So now I can say I've suffered my first gym "injury" :( I didn't think I've been gripping the gym equipment too tightly - and I'm still in the 180 range so my weight hasn't changed that much. I am anal-retentive about good "form" and wasn't leaning any 'new' way or anything... Any tips from other gym goers as to how NOT to let this happen again - besides "Don't do that?"

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[notdefined.livejournal.com]

Sports warehouse or whatever it is called nowdays has them. Try them on in the store before you buy them. They will say on the package if they have gel pads in them. I learned about it early on as the barbells were killing my palms