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danbo

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Can anyone recommend any good training gloves to use? The barbells are ripping the palm side of my hands to bits (the bit just before your figures start). I've seen one guy wearing cycling gloves, are these suitable?
 
If you are actually tearing the skin and bleeding, then you need gloves. Otherwise, the caluses that you will build up will do you good. I would definitely not wear gloves if possible. They weaken your grip and change the way you connect to the weights that you are lifting.
 
musketeer said:
If you are actually tearing the skin and bleeding, then you need gloves. Otherwise, the caluses that you will build up will do you good. I would definitely not wear gloves if possible. They weaken your grip and change the way you connect to the weights that you are lifting.
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I use Harbingers, I have been lifting for many years and I prefer to have callous free hands and I do.
 
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I dont want callous either. My hands dont bleed by the way, they just hurt and i get little tears in my skin.
 
danbo said:
I dont want callous either. My hands dont bleed by the way, they just hurt and i get little tears in my skin.
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Get some Harbingers, but try them on before you buy (test them out by actually gripping a dumbell bar or straight bar) to see if they bunch up at the base of your fingers (this will cause more discomfort than not wearing gloves). Just make sure they fit well and don't bunch up. The reason I say Harbinger is, I have tried all the brands that my sporting goods store had and I keep coming back to the Harbingers.
 
Sounds like good advice, but each to their own!

I went throuh a stage when I had been lifting for about a year, where I wanted to have all of the BB kit. So I bought a Valeo belt and gloves, wrist locks, wrist wraps, knee wraps, neoprene knee & elbow warmers, the lifting straps, sweat bands, baggy pants, Otomix shoes and a whole bunch of crap.

Now, all I use are the lifting straps when my forearms get too blasted to carry on training back.
 
women love when you rub your calloused hands in between there soft smooth legs cutting them up like sandpaper on wood hahaha. I dont wear gloves either but i take a razorblade and cut the callouses off once they get ugly.
 
I don;t wear gloves but it's odd: when I was younger and was lifting about half what do now, I used to get a lot of callousing just below each knuckle (on the inside, obviously) and also big callouses at the base of each finger. These days I have a tiny hint of callous at the knuckles and nothing at the finger bases. I'm pretty sure that no-one would guess that I lift by looking at my hands.

Maybe my skin is now just one big callous.
 
It's usually the same guys who have gloves, use the pussy pad when squatting on the Smith Machine and do triceps kickbacks on a Swiss balls

Enough said ;)
 
I use gloves and I'm not a pussy. I don't use the pussy pad for squats, i wish they would dumpster the smith machine, and i squat as low as my body will allow. I also recommend harbringers, they last a long time and are not very expensive $10 - $20.
 
To be fair, Ronnie Coleman uses gloves and if he's pussy, then I'm a...

Anyhow, I just think that they interfere with the lift and are unnecessary, but each to their own.
 
In fact I've used some in my old gym: the barbell was rusty and abrasive as hell :worried:
 
Maybe you've hit on something there, Anthrax. My current gym is a real spit and sawdust place and everything is covered in rust, especially my hands. I have a new theory that rust helps to keep callouses at bay. Maybe it just sands them down while you work out.
 
danbo said:
Can anyone recommend any good training gloves to use? The barbells are ripping the palm side of my hands to bits (the bit just before your figures start). I've seen one guy wearing cycling gloves, are these suitable?
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your soft hands will get use to it and a little blood and pain never hurt anybody suck it up!!!!
 
I was deadlifting 45kg earlier, and i could barely finish the set because of the pain in my hands, i'm sure the skin was going to cut.
 
I use the Harbingers gloves too and get along with them fine. I used to lift without gloves, but got tired of the callouses on my hands. I thought the gloves would get rid of the callouses completely, but they don't -- they just seem to reduce them.

I've lifted with and without the gloves and can't say that they've ever interfered with my lifting techniques, etc.




Tedster
 
i've also used grizzly and progryp in the past, using nikes now. harbingers lasted me years with comfort, the nikes are in their last few months of life (will have lasted less than a year)
 
danbo said:
I was deadlifting 45kg earlier, and i could barely finish the set because of the pain in my hands, i'm sure the skin was going to cut.
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I hate gloves... i have smaller hand and they fuck up my grip... definately respect the calusses :)

for deadlifts though i'll use straps... and THAT'S IT...
 
Nothing wrong with gloves, I started using them once my then girlfriend started complaining about my rough scratchy hands.
 
People can be such metrosexuals, lol.

A few callouses never hurt anyone. If the skin is completely torn off of your hands and you are losing pints of blood, go to the doctor........if you're in a little discomfort, suck it up.....it will make you tough. Danbo, you told me on another thread you compete in BJJ, so I don't think calloused hands should even in the top 100 on your list of painful things in life. In true strength training, there are no gloves......bodybuilding has to pretty everything up......ditching the gloves gives you a powerful grip....if your gf doesn't like it, get a new one.
 
BiggT said:
People can be such metrosexuals, lol.

A few callouses never hurt anyone. If the skin is completely torn off of your hands and you are losing pints of blood, go to the doctor........if you're in a little discomfort, suck it up.....it will make you tough. Danbo, you told me on another thread you compete in BJJ, so I don't think calloused hands should even in the top 100 on your list of painful things in life. In true strength training, there are no gloves......bodybuilding has to pretty everything up......ditching the gloves gives you a powerful grip....if your gf doesn't like it, get a new one.
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hahaha...
:beer:
 
I use gloves and I still have callouses. The only reason I use them is because my hands sweat way too much and then I can't grip. I use them just for the fact that they soak up the sweat. If my hands were drier, I wouldn't use them. Chalk is a no-no at my gym, so that's out.
 
danbo said:
Can anyone recommend any good training gloves to use? The barbells are ripping the palm side of my hands to bits (the bit just before your figures start). I've seen one guy wearing cycling gloves, are these suitable?
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I use Harbingers on lifts like bench, OHPs & pullups & straps on pulls (deads, rows). You really dont need gloves on every lift, such as squats.
 
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