Anyone else go to OTF so much that they developed a burn on their butt... from so much f’ing rowing?
Or is it just me? 😩
Posted Sep 11, 2018, 12:43 AM UTC
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🙋🏼♀️ Monkey Butt is what they call it!
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Can confirm, I use a product called “Anti Monkey Butt”
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Why do they call it monkey butt? 😂😂
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Google baboons
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Right at the top of my butt crack...YEP!!! From the rowers and from the benches too...mine is so bad it’s now a permanent scar...I’m HOPING it doesn’t just become a big butt crack callus... Mmmmmm...super sexy!!! NOT 🤦🏼♀️. (I do find that putting my towel on the rower seat definitely helps with a little padding 🙄)
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Put some cortisone cream on it after you shower.
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Same location for me. I found that if I go commando I do not get this chaffing.
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It will become a scar...I have one. I called it Rowers butt. And I got it so often, later I figured out it was from a specific material of pants, that now I have a permanent scar above the crack of my a**!!! It looks like a bruise...but it’s a scar!! My lil OTF reminder!!
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That’s where mine is at. I will try the towel idea and see if that does the trick, thanks much!
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Is it chaffing? I get that a decent amount from the rowers, it's not fun!
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Chaffing, yeah! It’s bad. 😰
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#OTFRowersButt
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No but the middle of my back hurts...maybe my form is bad?
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I don’t have that problem, but the chaffing seems to happen when I focus on good form 🤣
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Mid back pain = rounding your back or leaning back too far during a row
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Thanks! I’ll have to find that balance...
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🙋🏽♀️
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Yes🙋🏻♀️
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I’m pretty convinced I bruised my tail bone during the hell week 2017 rowing day ... and it hasn’t been the same since :-/
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There’s nothing more embarrassing than saying “my ass is damaged and I won’t be rowing today.” . It just sounds so... what’s the word? Sexual. I cringe when it gets so bad I have to skip.
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I slather chafe cream all down my cheeks/ back side and I don’t have this problem anymore! I use cream made for cyclers.
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You slather? Oh noooo 😂😂
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Yes, I had it SO badly I could barely sit down and I have the scar now too to prove it! There’s a solution! It’s called “Butt Shield” 2 Toms makes it- I swear it sounds made up but it’s true. Got it on Amazon - it’s like a roll on deodorant except not for your armpits, lol. It solved the problem of rowers butt (what I learned it was “technically called”... who knew?!).
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Just bought the 2Toms per your recommendation. Hope it helps me as much as it has you!
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It absolutely will! My next move was diapers if not 😂! Thankfully, it worked! But I have to use it every time. A few weeks ago I thought maybe I was cured and went off the Butt Shield.... long story short.... I’m back on and never going off again!
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Haha! So never go without, I will keep that in mind!
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Just bought the 2Toms per your recommendation. Hope it helps me as much as it has you!
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Whoah! I gotta check that out!
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Yes! I thought i broke my tailbone at first, so i had my dr look lol she said vasaline helps and it did!
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Whelp, glad it’s not just me, but I’m sorry for your injury
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I use the ab pad on the rower seat and it helps a lot. Without it, I am constantly getting skin breakdown there.
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Which ab pad? The hard small one? Or the big soft one, but folded up?
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The hard small one. I sit hit horizontally on the seat and line the edge up with the edge of my seat.
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If the 2Toms butt shield doesn’t work, I will give this a try for sure!
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Yes. For a while it used to be so bad, I couldn't sit normally anywhere. Then I started using the Gold bond friction defense stick. That helped, but not all the time. Now I use 2toms sport shield for her, have only had one "relapse". Scars are there for life, I guess
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This is the second post about 2toms, now I really gotta check it out! Thanks bunches!
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Could be the type of underwear you are wearing. I stopped wearing thongs when working out and the chaffing stopped.
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Could be. I don’t wear thongs though 😂😂
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Darn. That’s all I had 😂 Good luck finding a cure
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😂😂 I’m gonna take a look at this 2tom stuff
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Well now I have to go look, sorry coworkers if this gets awkward!!!
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No but this is cracking me up!! 😂
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Yes! I consistently get a blister or raw skin on my butt, but I started using Body Glide. It works great and I can tell on days that I don’t use enough. It goes on like a deodorant stick. Gold Bond makes a version too.
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A burn?
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Mines on the back of my upper thighs
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Ouch!
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Nope, but I DID get 2 amazing bruises on my ass from rowing so hard that the seat flew out from under me one time.
I have done that too, my cheeks were black and blue!
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This has happened to me before 😂
Hahaha omg no way, that’s amazing! Not the bruises, but the flying part!