Thread: Gloves or No Gloves

Originally Posted by MaxMirkin

I guess so is spelling?

hahahahaha!

Originally Posted by P-funk

I have heard both sides. I have had women tell me that it is sexy because they like the feel of my hard hands and think that guys with soft, girl like hands, are not very manly.

Hey I'm all for the rough handed male!
(Take that however you please! lol)
My husband has been in masonry for 27 years and has hands like Shrek!

Originally Posted by MaxMirkin

I guess so is spelling?

I wear gloves and don't care how it makes me look

I used to be "hardcore" and used chalk only, I would laugh at people with gloves and call them baby lifters (just kidding).

I wear gloves now, I really do not care for all of the calluses and the mess of chalk.

Originally Posted by MaxMirkin

I guess so is spelling?

That was a poor attempt at an Ahhhrnold voice ...

No gloves for me. I like my calluses thank you very much. I also workout barefoot and shirtless. Ah, the advantages of working out at home.

Originally Posted by CowPimp

I also workout barefoot...

that is not very smart, support is very important, not to mention you could drop a weight on your toe or something.

Originally Posted by Robert DiMaggio

not to mention you could drop a weight on your toe or something.

Ah yes, been there, done that... nothing like a 45lb plate dropped from a distance directly onto your big toe to wake you up mid-workout!
All I can say is thank god I had shoes on!!!

I wear gloves when I work out. I'd rather sweat inside the gloves than sweat on the bar and have it slip. My gym does not allow chalk.

The gloves save my hands from calluses. I also wear gloves when I go mountain biking, yet the biking sometimes tears the hell out of my hands. I dunno.

I wore gloves for a long time. My forearms werent up to par, and anytime I did anything overhead with dumbells (militarypress, incline press, even flat dumb press) I needed the wrist support of a glove with wrist wraps. Since then, Ive smartened up and use no gloves, forcing my forearms to catch up.

No gloves is the way to go. Who cares if you have calluses? The guys who are worried about that are the same ones that do their hair before they lift.

Originally Posted by du510

Who cares if you have calluses?

females actually.

I will continue to wear my gloves and not give a fuck what anyone thinks about it.

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

I will continue to wear my glove and not give a fuck what anyone thinks about it.

ok michael jackson

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

I will continue to wear my gloves and not give a fuck what anyone thinks about it.

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Originally Posted by bulletproof1

ok michael jackson

hahahahahaha

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

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party pooper

protection or no protection that is the question. I say using protection during sex is good for the safety of your health, but protection from the barbells and dumbells is pointless, unless you are scared your going to get calused hands or hepitits(?). I don't see a huge threat with hepititis(?) with public used weights. Just make sure you wash your hands before an after you use the restroom and after you lift weights or eat anything.

lifting weights not only builds muscles, but builds caluses (kind of like a workout for the skin) hehe

Originally Posted by du510

No gloves is the way to go. Who cares if you have calluses? The guys who are worried about that are the same ones that do their hair before they lift.

There's got to be a healthy balance somewhere, between the metrosexuals who must get a manicure before and after each workout, and the grunting unwashed unbrushed cavemen who use their nose-pickings as adhesive for the weights.

Originally Posted by P-funk

hahahahaha, I am so not a metrosexual. You should have seen the mess that was created when I tried to shave my legs for my last compeition. I walked into the gym and the girls went bonkers!!!..."what the hell did you do? you are still bleeding behind the knee! did you exfoliate? use shaving cream? anything?" LOL

Please tell me that you did indeed use some sort off shaving cream?

I use rags. Just wrap em around the bar.

Originally Posted by Robert DiMaggio

that is not very smart, support is very important, not to mention you could drop a weight on your toe or something.

I HAVE to go barefoot when squatting



.....and no gloves for me.

Originally Posted by Arnie's left nu

I HAVE to go barefoot when squatting

ever tried Otomix shoes, or even wrestling shoes?

http://www.bestforminc.com/otomix.cfm

Originally Posted by Robert DiMaggio

ever tried Otomix shoes, or even wrestling shoes?

http://www.bestforminc.com/otomix.cfm

no. i have a habit of leaning forward which has done a number on my kness already. so what i do is stick about a 1 inch pading under me heels and it makes it easier to shift my weight back.

which lead me to...is your weight supposed to be on your back hahf of your foot or more evenly displaced throughout the foot?

Originally Posted by bulletproof1

ok michael jackson

hahahahahah good one. ** drops a plate on foot*** OOOOOOWW!!!! hahahaha lol.

Hell no!

Originally Posted by MaxMirkin

There's got to be a healthy balance somewhere, between the metrosexuals who must get a manicure before and after each workout, and the grunting unwashed unbrushed cavemen who use their nose-pickings as adhesive for the weights.

Yes...
the grunting unwashed, unbrushed caveman wipe their hands on their
clothes or towel after each set, then wipe their face on the SAME clothes or towel thus leaving snat and boogers all over themselves...

I thought cavemen used their nose-pickings for CARBS

Originally Posted by Arnie's left nu

no. i have a habit of leaning forward which has done a number on my kness already. so what i do is stick about a 1 inch pading under me heels and it makes it easier to shift my weight back.

sounds like you lack flexability.

Originally Posted by Robert DiMaggio

sounds like you lack flexability.

doubt it...