Reddit mentions of Mueller Athletic Tape, 1.5" x 10yd Roll, White, 6 Pack

> What did you think of the program?

It's a lot of volume. A whole lot. My hands stayed sore most of the time. Even with chalk, alternating hot/cold water baths, and Working Hands my hands were very sore and the skin stayed very dry and cracked.

I did learn a trick though. You can wrap your afflicted fingers with athletic tape before you start your sets and it'll save you a lot of pain and damage.

> Also, what progress did you make?

I'm kind of a lightweight. I started with a CoC #1 for my 10-rep gripper, a CoC #1.5 for my 5-rep gripper and a CoC #2 for my goal gripper.

When I started, I could barely close the #1.5 5x, and I could just get the #2 parallel. I'm not to the point where I can do reps with the #2, but I can close it pretty much whenever I want now, and I can do 10 reps with the #1.5 pretty easy.

I guess the program works. If I'd thought of the athletic tape earlier on, it might not have hurt as much either.

I had several wrist problems this year. Carpal tunnel syndrome and some issues with my tendons. The biggest fixes was lowering sens a new mouse new mouse grip and raising my chair. The best thing was I never even stopped playing cs and it healed thanks to a little tape trick which will be at the bottom of this post.

Now I explain

Playing on a high sens strains your wrist far more then a low sens. Even if you don't feel it trust me it is. Your wrist may feel very loose but in order to achieve the accuracy that a low sens provides your wrist will tense up and you may or may not notice it. When I say high sens I played on 2.7 400 dpi I consider that high.

The tendon issues came from clicking on a mouse with stiff clicks as well as my mouse grip style. I used a pretty extreme claw grip. Claw grip causes far more stress on your hands tendons then palm. So by adjusting my grip to be more palm like, I still claw but its not as bad, so the new grip combined with a tape trick that I will explain later allowed me to heal without stopping or even limiting my playing time.

Raising my chair was a big one. I foolishly used to sit with the base of my wrist resting on the edge of the desk with my elbow sagging down. By raising my chair and pushing my arm further up on my desk the strain has been taking off my wrist which allowed my cts to heal.

Now Ik this sounds like an advertisement but no joke this trick works like no other. I used this tape
https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Athletic-Tape-White-yards/dp/B00I15JOX0/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1481132833&sr=8-1&keywords=mueller+tape

What I do is I get a section of tape about 8 inches long fold over the last half inch and cut a little slit in it so when I unfold it it forms a hole. I stick my mouse finger through that hole and then run the rest of the tape down my arm. I do this tape for my middle finger as well as mouse click finger. Then I get a smaller section of tape and stick it right where your wrist meets your arm and it goes over the top of the other 2 sections of tape and this anchors the tape down.
That is all this literally eliminated all my pain allowed me to play csgo and overwatch and after a month of doing that my wrist are 100% back to normal and I can play without the tape. One warning with the tape. It will fuck up your skin. You need to be putting lotion on everyday at least twice while doing this.

Good luck

Hampton for my fingers

Mueller for everything else

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I15JOX0/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I use this stuff and the residue is minimal, usually if there is any I just use another piece and place it on the residue and rip it off and that gets rid of it.

Athletic Tape White - 1 1/2 x 15 yards (mTape) (6) by mueller https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I15JOX0/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_UjcpxbE66P1Z1

I haven’t used anything else, going back to high school football days, Mueller athletic tape is cheap and flexible and tears easily. Not sure how you could improve on this, but like I said it’s all I’ve ever used.