If you know that you struggle with the holidays and staying on track with your nutrition, we wanted to offer some quick tips.
If you always fall victim to gorging yourself with the holiday season, this is the year you can put a stop to it to stay feeling good and go into the new year on the right foot.
Here’s the top tips we have for staying healthy and enjoying your holiday at the same time.
First, start the day the same way you normally would.
Here at Beyond the Box, we have your fitness needs in mind. We know you’re a busy professional.
In 20.3 we saw a new handstand push up standard that left many of us feeling like we had been cheated.
Open season is over, but if it’s one theme that sticks out, it’s the importance of knowing when to scale and when to do a workout Rx.
We’re neck deep in the Open, and you may have learned a hard lesson by now that you need to take care of your hands for your workouts or you’ll pay the price.
When CrossFit was in its early days, ripped hands were a mark of honor, but as CrossFit training becomes more efficient, well-defined and intended for daily workouts, you need to take care of your hands to make sure you can keep moving through your workout, and keep training throughout the week.
Hand ripping typically occurs when doing gymnastics movements like pull ups, toes to bar, or muscle ups as a result of not managing calluses on the skin that build up over time. When we work with our hands around barbell, dumbbells, and pull ups bars, they become rough and calloused as the skin hardens and becomes thick. This is completely normal, but it makes ripping more likely when we do a workout that contains a high repetition scheme.
How you take care of your calluses is a little different for everyone. Some of our top ways to do this include a callus shaver, a pumice stone, and covering your hands with grips. A callus shaver is one of the cheaper options and uses a razor blade to safely and effectively cut off the thick, hard calluses from the skin. A pumice stone is best used in the shower when hands are wet and the skin is softer to rub away the dead and thickened skin. You might also consider investing in grips that cover the palm of your hands for doing gymnastic movements on the pull up bar. These grip may reduce your friction with the bar, but are highly effective at protecting the skin on your palms.
What your favorite way to take care of your hands that we missed?
As we transition into the colder time of year, it’s easy to forget the importance of a good warm up.
Like most CrossFit workouts, you should have a strategy when it comes to your Open workouts.
