Do you wear gloves in the gym?

[spatts]

...or the heavy stuff crams the callouses against your fingers, and when you set the weight down, the pain of them squishing back into place leaves you unable to completely reopen your hand.

 

[Night Fly]

...or the heavy stuff crams the callouses against your fingers, and when you set the weight down, the pain of them squishing back into place leaves you unable to completely reopen your hand.

Yep....I know that feeling all too well! Uggghh...but...like gettinlarger...I LOVE my callouses! No gloves for me.

 

[JOKER47]

If you (plural) plan on competing in PL, you won't want to use gloves or straps. They're not allowed.

I think this is a key point. Train like you compete.



I wear gloves when I workout. No straps or hooks. (Except for power shrugs. I wear straps for those.) I also do not compete. (I would like to add as well that I have finally "weened" myself from a belt.)


One question: How do gloves assist your grip? I don't see them as an assistance. I wear them for comfort.



.02,
Joker

 

[AMBB4L]

hell no. but i don't do the hardcore stuff like b fold. Still, i like being able to feel the bar better.

 

[RipDsel]

Gloves are okay in a fitness center, bad in a gym.

I agree

 

[spatts]

Joker, I think you answered your own question. If the gloves increase comfort, you might be able to hold on longer, and not drop the bar from pain and discomfort.

 

[t3c]

i love the callouses...they make me feel hardcore...real hardcore

also, my hands get plenty of luberication outside the gym...well at least my right does

 

[gettinlarger]

Yep....I know that feeling all too well! Uggghh...but...like gettinlarger...I LOVE my callouses! No gloves for me.

Hell yeah NF! Karma for you. Sorry it's grey ...

 

[JOKER47]

Joker, I think you answered your own question. If the gloves increase comfort, you might be able to hold on longer, and not drop the bar from pain and discomfort.

Is that bad thing then? If they are not assisting you by helping hold the bar like straps or hooks, I would think it would help assist in gaining grip strength. The longer you can hold the bar, the greater your grip strength becomes. Am I totally wrong in this line of thinking?

Understand I am not putting either way down by any means. Just trying to understand why some people are SO against them.


Thanks,
Joker

 

[SeekerOfKnowledge]

I think they are against it because their idols of bodybuilding never used them either.