[tomtom]

Not sure this is training - but is as near a thread section as I can think...

At the moment I seem to be having a week on, two weeks off, two weeks on a week off etc.. and am just about to go away again for a couple of weeks with no training looking likely...

Strength issues aside, one of the more annoying things about not climbing for a couple of weeks is that all that hard earned toughened skin peels away leaving nice baby soft finger tips.. Is there a quick, and easy way of maintaining some skin toughness? Will polishing the tips with sandpaper/emery board keep them in shape?

[bigtuboflard]

I remember clearly when talking to my Grandad when I was a kid and telling him about my climbing that he told me to soak my fingers in white spirit to toughen the skin so it doesn't split. An old trick from his days in the Army apparently.

[krymson]

antihydral

[dave]

Sand papering tips every night should do you fine.

[tomtom]

Thanks both. stump cream and sandpaper then. Not sure I'll go for white spirit... (Didn't people used to say surgical spirit?)

[bigtuboflard]

I wasn't entirely condoning it! Maybe it was surgical spirit. It was 30+ years ago.  Antihydral should work well as a similar principle I think in terms of removing or limiting moisture in the skin.


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[dave]

I wouldn't antihydral it, it'll just dry the outer layer which will then want to come off. I'd just sandpaper to simulate the wear you get from rock.

[chris j]

Medium grade sandpaper works best for me, fine grade just seemed to take away all the hard stuff and left my skin really soft...

[kelvin]

My job involves sandpaper... my skin is thin.

[rodma]

It's the pressure on the tips you need to emulate in some way of you want to keep the hard skin and not wanting holds to feel too hurty when you start climbing again.

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[tomtom]

Bugger Sandpaper pinch grips and stump cream...