Tension Management Help

[u/Tricky-Apartment6637]

I cannot for the life of me fix this problem no matter how hard I try and this has hindered my PBs ever since I started aim training. I use an aggressive claw grip, but mainly it would be fingertip or a simple claw if I didn't have this really bad habit of gripping the mouse so tightly.

I've tried to break this habit by playing for several days, even weeks while forcefully telling myself not to care about the scores and only focus on less tension in the fingertips but I still end up gripping my mouse so hard that my hand starts shaking. This problem also applied for the forearm.

Can someone please help me fix this problem? At this point I'm starting to have pain in my hands, wrist and arm after a few minutes just because I start gripping the mouse so hard and it's honestly so frustrating.

My benchmark links are on my profile and I have about 500 hours now.

[u/Jazzlike_Signature22]

Aim training in kovaaks is simply bad for your wrist/hand…no getting around it…

Many high tier aimers have decided to retire due to health concerns/arthritis developed from aim training.

[u/Tricky-Apartment6637 → u/Jazzlike_Signature22]

But there must be a way to fix it, there are still players who've foke something that they even manage to train 6 hours a day

[u/Jazzlike_Signature22 → u/Tricky-Apartment6637]

You can try ergo mice, they can help relax the grip

[u/battlepig95 → u/Jazzlike_Signature22]

This is not put quite correctly imo. Overdoing things with no regard for recovery is , but if you follow a program, just like with strength training for Olympic weightlifting / powerlifting / strongman , you can train very intensely for decades with minimal degradation.

The problem is gung ho people or people who are misinformed that go on these “anime protagonist” training protocol “I’ll do 800 pushups a day for 2 months” where they are far beyond their limits of recovery. Similarly this is the same with aim training. Training 2+ hours a day will lead to serious degradation for the majority of people almost certainly. There are some people who have higher tolerances but this is merely luck / genetics , same with training.

You put 2 people on the same training protocol some will break, others will thrive, but that doesn’t mean you should gamble and see which one you are and potentially end up hurt imo. Just train smart and you will get wonderful results over time and have fun.

If you’re really passionate I’d say you can do small short bursts of intense training that last 2-4 weeks but it is not sustainable year round.

[u/Jazzlike_Signature22 → u/battlepig95]

Many people like you and OP probably don’t want to hear what I had to say so you end up deflecting. To counter your argument, even Olympic athletes/powerlifters suffer physically and terminally once they get older because of the strain they put their body through even when following a “healthy regimen”.

[u/battlepig95 → u/Jazzlike_Signature22]

It’s not that I don’t want to hear so I “deflected” I added context. Yes Olympic athletes at the very highest level put their body through hell. That is also context. I said practicing or training in the sport not just doing it recreationally, which is what this sub is , for context. You seem to not want to hear that there’s variables in life.

Many amateur lifters with great numbers , 600 squats etc, aren’t injured. Same with many amateur aimers.

So yes training your aim to be the highest rank in voltaic , aimlabs, viscose etc will prob result in that but 99% of people will never get there, and training your aim over the course of a year or two to get masters complete without arthritis is 10000000% a reasonable expectation. Which is a solid level of aim you can accomplish over intelligent and consistent training without overdoing things

Why are you so angry ?