None of this is true or correct. "increase the size of your hands and therefore **** up your grip" This would be a similar effect of Fat Bars & Fat Grips that are sold as aids to improve ones grip.
"You are goign to get callouses with or without gloves" Not true, when I started lifting 2 years ago, I had developed bad callouses within a few months. I then bought Sheik lifting gloves from the bb.com store and have used them since. I have absolutely no callouses today.
"Gloves are a fashion statement in general." What can I say ... this is just a very unintelligent statement. I workout at home alone, who the hell am I making a "fasion statement" for?
You should train without another layer of skin between your hand and the bar. When you close your hand the glove squashes up and therefore leads to poor grip. Its not just for things like deadlifting. It also effects your bicep curls, bench, etc because you cannot squeeze the bar as hard. Using a fat bar is completely different and you cannot compare them.
I like the way you started with 'when i first started lifting' - of courses callouses developed straight away. Every person new to lifting gets this and complains instantly. If you do not have callouses after 2 years of lifting then you must be one of the few people on the forums that does not get it. Look again i bet you the skin is harder at the base of your ring and little fingers. So its not a matter that you dont have it - you have just got used to it.
I train at home too, i use chalk instead. The gloves are a fashion statement because people think they are a useful gym accessory.
You dont have to take my advice about any of this. Do some reading from a reputable source and see what you think after that.
Looks like most of the callus advocates are saying it shows their hard work in the gym
I must be mistaken cuz I always thought my MUSCLE did that lol :P
yea, this kind of thing comes up every time people debate gloves/no gloves. people always insult others. it really doesn't matter to me if you wear gloves, and it shouldn't matter to you if i dont. i lift in my home gym, by myself. i'm not trying to impress anyone with my "fashionable" gloves, and i'm not rubbing my rough hands all over anyone else here either.
it's like saying if you don't wear the shoes i like you aren't a real man. who cares? lift how you want and wear what you want when you do it. i like the feel of the bar, so i don't wear gloves. one of my old training partners wore gloves all the time- so what?
the op just wanted to either a)find out if he was missing anything by not wearing gloves or b)stir the pot and get everyone going. well, hopefully he got his answer.
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yea, this kind of thing comes up every time people debate gloves/no gloves. people always insult others. it really doesn't matter to me if you wear gloves, and it shouldn't matter to you if i dont. i lift in my home gym, by myself. i'm not trying to impress anyone with my "fashionable" gloves, and i'm not rubbing my rough hands all over anyone else here either.
it's like saying if you don't wear the shoes i like you aren't a real man. who cares? lift how you want and wear what you want when you do it. i like the feel of the bar, so i don't wear gloves. one of my old training partners wore gloves all the time- so what?
the op just wanted to either a)find out if he was missing anything by not wearing gloves or b)stir the pot and get everyone going. well, hopefully he got his answer.
I'd say /thread, but we all know some goof ball will ask again in a week....maybe sooner.
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In college we used to look for the bars that had the heaviest knurl and use em without gloves. 25+ years ago, there were quite a few bars with serious valleys cut into the bars. Have lifted with and without gloves over those years. Seems as if a few of the built up callouses don't feel like going away anytime soon regardless of gloves.
Started wearing the NewGrips gloves off and on, and after getting used to them, they don't feel too bad, and are easy to flip off and on, and still be attached. Kind of both worlds. I used to have a few sets of gloves that had the wrist wraps built in, and you could get them fairly tight, and still feel comfortable with the wrists wrapped.
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I think it is odd to put all that time and money into building a great body & then not take care of your skin. I wear gloves working out, Working the farm, with anything that might damage my hands. I also moisturize my skin daily usually with something that bronzes my skin. You only have 1 body & I take very good care of it. Everyone deserves the face they have at 50
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I think it is odd to put all that time and money into building a great body & then not take care of your skin. I wear gloves working out, Working the farm, with anything that might damage my hands. I also moisturize my skin daily usually with something that bronzes my skin. You only have 1 body & I take very good care of it. Everyone deserves the face they have at 50
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