why do guys wear those workout gloves?

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  • Bakkasan
    Bakkasan Posts: 1,027 Member
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    Ripping callouses sucks when working with very heavy weights.
  • almonds1
    almonds1 Posts: 642 Member
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    I still get calluses with gloves and /or straps
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
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    I get why people think that people are aholes.

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  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
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    Calluses can interfere with rubbing one out.

    Or enhance the experience
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
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    I get why people think that lifters are aholes.

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  • bellydancer124
    bellydancer124 Posts: 248
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    I don't usually wear gloves, but my boyfriend does.

    I have no clue what anyone else at the gym wears (or doesn't wear). I'm beginning to think I'm the only one who is completely oblivious to everyone else in the world lol.
  • wellbert
    wellbert Posts: 3,924 Member
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    Calluses can interfere with rubbing one out.

    Or enhance the experience

    they probably use gloves for that too
  • _Wits_
    _Wits_ Posts: 1,286 Member
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    I don't care either way....just as long as you don't have bleeding freakin hands.

    That being said, when I started lifting with a bar, I HAD to wear gloves cuz I'm a sweathog...

    Nothing outdated about it...just personal preference.

    ANd every woman in my gym that lifts real heavy wears them, too. *shrugs*
  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
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    Calluses can interfere with rubbing one out.

    Or enhance the experience

    Double stranger!
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
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    I get why people think that lifters are aholes.

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    ruined

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  • n0ob
    n0ob Posts: 2,390 Member
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    People who workout with gloves also probably use a pad to do half squats...
  • jackpotclown
    jackpotclown Posts: 3,291 Member
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    I get why people think that lifters are aholes.

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    ruined

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    tossed out the window \m/
  • Bakkasan
    Bakkasan Posts: 1,027 Member
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  • Erienneb
    Erienneb Posts: 592 Member
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    I just started lifting and I don't need them because I don't lift very heavy yet. If I got to the point where my hands were calloused because I have sensative easily scarring skin then yes I would wear them because some of the bars at my gym are rough and due to my sensitivity to infection and scarring I would need to.

    My boyfriend doesn't heavy lift often so not an issue. If he had callouses I think I'd mind a little how it felt, but be proud of him for lifting so either way I don't care.
  • bgelliott
    bgelliott Posts: 610 Member
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    I wear workout gloves so my hands don't get torn up. If I lift with bare hands, depending on the bar, it can tear the skin also cause calluses.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
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    <--- This guy wears gloves. Has benched 415 wearing gloves. Has deadlifted 550+ wearing gloves. OHP 185 for reps wearing gloves. Squats 450+ wearing gloves. Strangely, has never dropped a bar. Even more strangely, does not have calluses.

    When new people come to train with me, the first thing I tell them to get is gloves. And you know what we do after that? We start yanking big weight. We don't spend time telling each other that "it'll stop hurting when the calluses get harder". We don't spend time filing our calluses when we get home. We just keep putting weight on the bar without being limited by hands that hurt.

    But I have a question for the OP. When did it become a thing for one man to question what another man is wearing? That sounds like some Mean Girls type shish to me. I have no worldly idea what the other guys in the gym are wearing. I don't even see the other people in the gym. I'm there to move big weight, not check out the current men's fashions

    But to each their own, I guess. Hang around, enjoy the view.
  • _crafty_
    _crafty_ Posts: 1,682 Member
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    I can understand if a female did not want to get calluses, but i think even that thought is somewhat dated. as a matter of fact, I don't think any of the girls in my gym wear those gloves and are rather proud of calluses from lifting.

    srsly? No.

    I wear gloves and I'm proud of the way my BODY looks from lifting.
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
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    I'm not gonna say who or by whom, but somebody round here got served a big bowl of shut the fck up

    On an unrelated note, what gloves do you use Dav?
  • n0ob
    n0ob Posts: 2,390 Member
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    In all seriousness i get worse calluses from golfing then I do from weightlifting.

    I lift as much as anybody and my hands still look like sissy city hands...
  • Fozzi43
    Fozzi43 Posts: 2,984 Member
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    I'm not gonna say who or by whom, but somebody round here got served a big bowl of shut the fck up

    On an unrelated note, what gloves do you use Dav?


    :bigsmile:
    Yep..I wear gloves too.

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