Does anyone know of a lightweight glove that can be worn while swimming? Something like thin cotton gloves, but a material that won't absorb water and be difficult to remove.
When sharing a lane with someone who takes up a lot of room I try to stay close to the lane line out of self-preservation. Occasionally I hit my knuckles on the line, so I usually have a few skinned spots on my hands. I figured gloves might help. So would swimming in a straighter line, but that gets messed up by the other guy's wake.;)
Does anybody else run into this problem?
Tom
I have a friend who has resolved this issue by using the latex gloves ribber banded on, however he completely coats his hands in vaseline or some other major lubricant. The diving in salt water created the dryness. When it got real bad he slept overnight with the lubricated gloves. He mentioned this resolved his cracked hand issues.
Former Member
Doug, you mentioned problems with your skin drying out and cracking.
I get cracks in my skin all the time in dry weather, without going near the water. What works for me is to put a little superglue over the crack. It's sometimes tricky not to get too much on there, and I need to reapply it every couple of days, but it really makes the hands feel better.
My-brother-the-med-school-faculty-member says this is the same stuff they would charge you $??? for in a hospital.
Tom
Former Member
thanx Tom. super glue is one of the many choices I've been using the last coupla decades. at the moment paper tape by J & J is the handiest and quickest remedy. sometimes I'm using a lot, 'specially on my heels, often two layers. At the moment it would take me probably over an hour to treat all of the heel cracks, with the added hazard of spilling the bottle! etc.
Former Member
I have this problem too. It doesn't happen every workout but when it does it's bad. The ones I got from doing fly last week are definitely going to leave a scar.
The concern with the webbing gloves is that it leads to shoulder problems, right? What about some kind of no-webbing neoprene glove, like the kind they use for scuba?
