Pros and cons of gloves for weight training?

I use gloves but must admit I've not tried without them.

If you use cloves ,you got more comfort for hand with weight lifting.

I lift without gloves and love my callouses and the wife doesn't mind them so it makes it ok.

TISCHK004 wrote: »

Don't know how old anyone in this group is but... your hands show the story of your life and while some may feel they are a badge of the hard work they have done lifting weights your hands are one of the first things to show age! For the ladies who don't wear gloves... Do you really want to add tough calloused palms to that equation?

How do you figure this to be true?

Pros your hands stay pretty cons your missing out on a lot of grip strength gains

astrampe wrote: »

I can lift like a construction worker, but that doesn't mean my hands have to look like that of a construction worker..... Gloves, I like having soft hands.....

I used to do heavy construction work - I wore gloves. lol

fromaquasar1 wrote: »

Do gloves help at all with grip strength? I am finding I have to put the bar down when dead lifting cause my wrists/forearms/hands hurt, not my legs...I'm pretty sure my grip is good, the weight is just too much on my hands...

Not in my experience - unless your grip is slipping because of sweaty hands or something.

I use straps on my back days near the end of my 2 hour workout because I'm working my BACK and I don't need my grip strength being the determining factor - but that is after a lot of volume. I also use straps when I'm shrugging a lot of weight on a BB. I never liked using alternating grip for those and once again, I'm working traps not my grip.

I've tried gloves, but either they're too big and slip around or fit my palm but are so short and stubby in the fingers that they irritate the skin there. So I figured the heck with it. My hands had callouses from years rowing crew and canoeing, what are a few more. But really, after the initial nasty crusty ones, mine are just smooth reddish bumps for the most part, unless I really go nuts. Lifting for a bit over a year, and my hands look way better than the nasty, ripped up claws I had from crew, so I'll take this as an improvement.

Gloves for deadlifts because my grip is terrible when I am sweaty

My take on gloves! So first it depends on your goals, right? Earlier we learned that if you're into power lifting you can't use gloves for competition so that's PART of the actual activity. However, for those into bodybuilding. I know for me, that my goal is to ultimately grow more muscle and achieve an awesome physique, and how do you do that, by having successful work outs and at the end of the day if not wearing gloves gets in the way of being able to achieve more reps or more work in the gym than wear the damn things. I know for certain exercises I do much better with padding on my hands. Some I like the natural grip better. As for the macho aspect of not wearing gloves, no need for that in the gym . That is my two cents.

tndorenez20 wrote: »

Pros your hands stay pretty cons your missing out on a lot of grip strength gains

I've heard this before, so in some cases this is true, however again if I can get more reps at that moment by putting on gloves then so be it. Also gloves don't take away from grip strength, straps do, which I don't really use. Gloves are simply a measure of comfort, why be uncomfortable when you're trying to lift weights? If I can add 10 lbs to my bench with gloves as opposed no gloves, I think I'm gonna go with the gloves....