Gloves?

[grr]

My hands get tore up when I lift heavy weights like deadlift. Should I bite the bullet through the bloody blisters and make callousy hands out of these pvssy feelers? Or, should I get some gloves?

Anyone been through the man-hand transformation out of their teens? What should I expect, a year of pain and stains on my hands & shirts or just a few months? Any other advice like to let the blisters heal before ripping them apart again?

 

[Cruise]

For regular weightlifting, gloves are considered pretty-boy accessories. Really, you might look like a big fitness buff, when in actuality you're substituting style over substance.

But for heavier weightlifting, such as deadlifts, get weightstraps. These are the straps you tie around your wrist, and pull the strap over the weights. It'll get the blister issue out of your way, without the Ken doll look. The really serious lifters use this. So represent it proper.

In any case, also remember, that when utilizing grip supports, you're taking away the forearm and wrist resistance, so make sure to put in forearm and wrist workouts in place of these supports.

To your best!

 

[Da Realist]

The tougher your hands are, the less lifting heavy weights will hurt or tear up your hands. I went through the same thing in high school football and your hands will feel better after a while. Use the straps for lifts like power clean or deadlift, but try to use your barehands as much as possible otherwise.

 

[flippinfreak]

I'm guessing you have a weak grip, and you aren't using any powder.

Your hands sweat, and they get "greasy". You sqeeze to tighten your grip, and the bar grinds into your flexh slowly ripping into it. You push hard against the bar, and it pushes through your soft flesh into your bones, creating callouses or worse blisters. Kind of brings you back to elementary school when you played on the jungle gym, puffing on your hands to give yourself better grip so you don't slip when you skip a few bars.

Don't wear gloves, your going to sweat into them, and your hands will gain the consistency of a raisin. Remember taking hour long baths as a kid and your fingers look like prunes, that's waht is going to happen, and when you go to let the bar down after some deadlifts your fingertips weaken and your palm is stretched to the point where it feels like your skin is going to be ripped off. You don't drop the weight though, because you don't want to be embarrassed in front of the other guys.

Work on your wrists, 20 lb kettlebells are going to do wonders for your grip. Your grip is strengthened through your forearm.

Want a demonstration of your strength?

pull your sleeve up, and open your palm face up

push down on the soft of your elbow

use a lot of pressure when you do so

keep using the same pressure as you move up your arm

flex your arm as your hand begins to feel the effect

flex your hand when you realize you are tensing your shoulder and bicep/tricep instead of your forearm.

You have to work the areas of your arm, that support your hand before you begin to worry about the strength of your hand and what it can withstand.

Your triceps should equal the strength in your biceps. your forearm should be able to curl 80% of what your dumb bell max weight is able to handle. Your wrists should be strengthened and stretched before every set.

Do some research on kettlebells, they are imho, todays most advanced grip strengthening exercisers.

 

[fireguy]

I think gloves are ok. Especially during pulling movments like chins and deadlifts. I don't want to have rough hands during forplay/sex. Kinda puts a bump on the moment when your hands feel like sandpaper. Nobody in the gym cares if you use them anyways.

 

[flippinfreak]

Your hands ain't gonna turn to sandpaper if you moisten them and keep them clean! Just build tougher hands so they don't rip when the bar starts to slip!

Sure wear gloves, if your hands are going to be moving on the bar. Chin-ups, reverse pushups, anything where you grab a bar and you want to move fast, your going to get blisters if your hands aren't ready for the pain.

Sure you can callouse your hands up, try and get em tear proof, but the muscles underneath are still gonna be weak.

You've got a choice.

Lift lighter and kill your chances of growing. Or switch up your training, and focus on the real problem instead of looking for a solution to something that won't matter in the future.

 

[brucevangeorge]

My hands get tore up when I lift heavy weights like deadlift. Should I bite the bullet through the bloody blisters and make callousy hands out of these pvssy feelers? Or, should I get some gloves?

Anyone been through the man-hand transformation out of their teens? What should I expect, a year of pain and stains on my hands & shirts or just a few months? Any other advice like to let the blisters heal before ripping them apart again?

I don't have any problems. At the beginning my hands were sore and blistery but that goes away after a couple of weeks. They have nice thick calouses that blend in with the rest of the skin. They're barely visible.


Pu$$y.

 

[grr]

I haven't even been lifting *heavy* for a week so there you go.

Thanks for the tips, others. Flippin had me spot on I need to focus on my grip/forearms.

 

[semag]

dude, i don't get some of that stuff...

Gloves w/ no fingers and mesh back... won't trap the moisture in, no "raisin" hands.

Wrist straps, great for lifting weight that your grip won't let you hold. How many of us are genetically gifted enough to hold as much as our back can lift. I know I can't, but I'm not going to go light on my deads because I can't hold hte bar..... or worse yet, switch to an alternating grip which might mess up my biceps. I'd rather use straps and double overhand.

 

[flippinfreak]

Of course your going to be using straps with double overhand for slow lifts.

I'm talking about highly repeated lifts. Where your aiming for 50 pullups, 50 dips, push-ups, and reverse pull-ups.

You can wear gloves if you want to in that case, but it's unneeded, and you get more of your hand on the surface. Instead of resting the base of your palm on the bar/floor, you rest the knuckle part of your hands on the floor, something you can't do well with gloves. Same with reverse pull-ups, your grip gets weak with gloves on. Anything involving grip with your hands, the closer to white knuckle that you get, the further you are stretching your muscles, and the more energy your body creates to rebuild the muscles.

 

[[S]alvatore]

I use gloves when i'm doing dead's because I might do them twice in a week, so if my hands are fu<ked from the last session, I can't put in maximum effort. I will never use straps because I want to have a strong grip.

 

[mrRuckus]

Of course your going to be using straps with double overhand for slow lifts.

I'm talking about highly repeated lifts. Where your aiming for 50 pullups, 50 dips, push-ups, and reverse pull-ups.

Um who the hell does that many reps?

 

[flippinfreak]

Oh I don't know, somebody who's looking for endurance...

That might just be me though.

 

[mrRuckus]

Oh I don't know, somebody who's looking for endurance...

That might just be me though.

oh.

youre smart.

 

[mrRuckus]

and the more energy your body creates to rebuild the muscles.

I wish my body could defy the laws of physics

 

[flippinfreak]

oh.

youre smart.

That's helpful... am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way to build endurance than to increase my aerobic threshold. Increase my lung capacity, increase the flow of oxygen to my muscles, and train to anaerobic failure...

It's the way I've always trained...

I wish my body could defy the laws of physics

ATP is created to feed your muscles. When your muscles begin to break their bonds energy is taken from your food and not excreted as waste, as there are more nutrients required... You create cytokines and your muscle swells up and begins to rebuild the broken tissue. You know your muscle is healing and creating energy, instead of preserving energy, to heal the muscle, because there is a warm tenderness, kind of like when you have a cut that heals.

I don't know any of the science beyond that...

If you want to tell me how wrong I am...

 

[simon]

He was trying to say that you can't 'create' energy.

 

[flippinfreak]

your body stores fat, which creates energy. Of course you don't CREATE energy, you convert it... whatever, if he wants to argue about semantics let him...

If he wants to be constructive or insulting let him...

 

[Julian]

I use gloves

I also use straps for heavy deads.

If thats ***** to you... i dont give a ****.

 

[brucevangeorge]

I use gloves

I also use straps for heavy deads.

If thats ***** to you... i dont give a ****.

That is ***** to me. But then again you could be a wannabe pretty boy. Lift like a man, you pansy!