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Benefits of Weight-lifting Gloves | eHow.com
Significance
# Weight lifting puts stress on the hands and nerves of the hands. If you lift without gloves, you may have to stop routines before you hit your desired reps.
The hands still see the same force. Gloves don't magically take it away. The position of your hands on the bar determines if you put force on a nerve or not. I'm sure we have all had to adjust our position on dumbbells, because it puts too much pressure on that meaty part between your thumb and index finger.
Function
# Weight-lifting gloves protect the skin of the hands, reducing callouses and preventing the skin from drying out and cracking.
I don't use gloves and I have some damn soft hands. It's called lotion.
Wrists
# Wearing a good pair of padded weight-lifting gloves will reduce the pressure on your wrists.
Again, the hands and wrists see the same force with or without gloves. The only difference is you may be able to get gloves that lock the wrists in a parallel position with the hands, but those gloves aren't conducive to working out.
Grip
# Another benefit of gloves is the fact that you can get a better grip on free weights. This is especially the case when you are sweating during a hard workout.
Chalk works better than gloves, and if you're grip is too weak to hold a weight as simple as rows or something, you are using too much weight and you need to work on your grip.
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There are many benefits of weight lifting gloves that one can enjoy simply by wearing a pair while you workout. Weight lifting gloves are made in order to protect your hands especially when lifting heavy weights or while you are doing boot camps which require you to place your hands on pavement or pull awkward objects.
One of the benefits of weight lifting gloves is that
they absorb the pressure that would otherwise be felt in your hand. Without weight lifting gloves, you may not work out a muscle as much because your hands are tired or in pain. Certain muscles can typically handle more than weight than what you can lift with your hands in they do not have proper protection.
No pressure is absorbed. Weight is weight and gravity is gravity. Gloves are not anti-gravity devices. "...handle more weight than what you can lift..." That statement is purely psychological. Physiologically, your body sees weight, or force, not some superficial device. Your mind has a greater effect on if you lift more weight than gloves do.
A positive side effect of keeping the pressure off of your hands is that your wrists will not be as uncomfortable is you are lifting heavy weights. If your gloves wrap around your wrists you are receiving a lot of support when you bend your wrist backwards to perform certain exercises.
Addressed above.
Other Reasons to Wear Weight Lifting Gloves
Also, during a workout your hands tend to get sweaty and reduce your grip on the weights, but with weight lifting gloves you don’t need to worry about losing your grip. This can be dangerous if, for example, you are doing heavy weights and have them over your body.
Wet leather is extremely slick. Your grip isn't to blame for weight slipping if it's over your body and your pushing. Grip plays a smaller part in pushing exercises. Wet hands? Towel and chalk.
A fourth major benefit of weight lifting gloves is that they prevent calluses and blisters from forming on your palms, which you know is a great feature if you’ve ever had calluses from working out.
Excessive jacking off causes this, too.
Finally, weight lifting gloves distribute the weight evenly across the forearms, and this not only lightens the load on your fingers, but increases your forearm strength.
Distributes the weight across your forearm? Are people wearing gloves that looked like Forrest Gump's leg braces? I can see some gloves supporting wrists, or locking them in a certain position, but this is not the mainstream glove, and if you don't have the strength to hold your wrists in a locked position, you need to do different exercises to strengthen them.
