// I'm making the assumption here that you're _relatively_ new to strength sports. If I've misjudged that, sorry!
> My callouses are starting to become a bother and my hands are pretty raw for any other lifts later in my session.
Calluses hurting late into your training session but not the beginning is typically a sign that you're not taking very good care of the skin on your hands.
Donny Shankle, a very accomplished weightlifter, has a really good video on hand care here[1]. It's sport specific for weightlifting, but it applies pretty well to strength training in general.
In addition to what he says, I've had really good success with a combination of a corn/callus shaver[2] and a dremel tool. The goal is to take the peaks off the calluses such that they're more or less flat to the rest of your hands. My typical routine for palm callus care, performed every few days, is to shower so that my skin is relatively soft, shave off any parts of the calluses on my palm that are protruding above the plane of the rest of my palms, and then smooth it out with the dremel's grinder tip set to low speed.
> My callouses are starting to become a bother and my hands are pretty raw for any other lifts later in my session.
Calluses hurting late into your training session but not the beginning is typically a sign that you're not taking very good care of the skin on your hands.
Donny Shankle, a very accomplished weightlifter, has a really good video on hand care here[1]. It's sport specific for weightlifting, but it applies pretty well to strength training in general.
In addition to what he says, I've had really good success with a combination of a corn/callus shaver[2] and a dremel tool. The goal is to take the peaks off the calluses such that they're more or less flat to the rest of your hands. My typical routine for palm callus care, performed every few days, is to shower so that my skin is relatively soft, shave off any parts of the calluses on my palm that are protruding above the plane of the rest of my palms, and then smooth it out with the dremel's grinder tip set to low speed.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otorSGl3sG0
[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001CYC4BG