Don't Wear Gloves in the Gym!
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Surgical scar on the palm of my hand. With certain ropes or cable accessories, there are times I need to wear a glove(s) to stop the 'I'm being electrocuted' feeling.
Gloves absolutely help calluses
Not sure wtf is Dr Mike on about here, but back when I was 15-16 doing pullups bare hand hurt like a bitch, so much that I didn't want to do them more than once a week, and it was the only lats/biceps work for me. Only after high school did I realize I could use damn scourer sponges to actually do pullups almost every day.
Just double up your panties..
I remember our High School had some really rough bars in with training. A bunch of bought fingerless gloves just keep our hands from ripping apart.
True! 👍
Even ride a motorcycle with no gloves , calluses get crazy like stone
Gloves ABSOLUTELY make a HUGE difference in callouses! Mostly every bar, dumbbell, and several grips, have a steel knurling that increases grip, but also eats away at your skin! Ever since I started wearing gloves, any and all callous growth stopped, like, entirely.
They absolutely give more grip, and they don't have to be all gooey and slimy if you wear fingerless, made from breathable material, and your gym has decent A/C.
How about pullups? I assume the skin getting compressed into the callus marks is still gonna happen under the gloves
@@sasquatchthesquatch3357With pullups or chin ups or lat pulldowns, the reason you develop callouses or blisters is because it pinches against itself (palm pads) and slips off itself. Wearing gloves doesn't prevent that interaction, only interaction between the bar and your hands. If you want NO callouses or blisters (with or without gloves) for the above exercises, you need to "set" your grip. Rather than reaching for the bar and grasping it immediately, touch your fingertips to the bar, then slide the rest of your hand into grip position. This prevents your palm pads from bunching up and slipping against themselves
Was looking for this comment. Still I prefer callouses. They are super useful.
Build stronger hands, don’t be a gimp
@@queensleyflamesthis is the correct answer
Mark said that he wears gloves because he's a germaphobe and that he has detached knuckle from boxing so he feels more stable having gloves on. It's probably just the germaphobia thing though.
Gloves *absolutely* make a difference to the smoothness of your skin. It's not even a question. My girlfriend can always tell when I workout without gloves, without fail.
*boyfriend
@@disturbed911tru
Plus I would rather wear gloves I clean with alcohol and air out each time rather than touching the equipment like bars no one cleans.
@@Erik-rd5dljust fuckin wash your hands hey
@@Erik-rd5dljust wash your hands lol
I wear them for grip strength. A lot of time my grip goes before my muscles do
Gloves will only make that worse. The best thing for grip strength is to let your hands get beat up. It can take a while to build up, but the longer you wear gloves, the longer your hands will be the thing that limits your progress. Remember, you're only as strong as your weakest link.
Straps.
@@codybulluss1987straps degrade your grip strength if you rely on them.
Lifting straps will change your life
Chalk up!
Two reasons for me to wear lifting gloves:
- Less strain on my wrists (strap support) where I have a tendency to develop cysts
- I don’t develop callouses normally, I just blister and tear. The gloves help with that.
you sus
I wear gloves for pull-ups, deadlifts and bent-over rows because otherwise i develop very, very large calluses which are extremely painful when i grip the bar for these heavy movements.
I used to wear gloves when I was 16, and I can remember being unable to do simple pull downs without a lot of pain. But trust me, you don't need those, I never have any pain. It is by using gloves how you end up not being able to lift without them. Developing a better grip strength also helps.
You don’t need them. I pull heavy, my callouses are developed but embedded into the skin you can’t notice then
@@GabrielCazorlaPersson1My grip strength is fine, as are my pull-ups (using added 25lbs). My body develops large calluses which are painful. Just how my body responds to the pressure.
@@charlies8282Unfortunately, my calluses protrude out significantly. Just how my body is. Wearing gloves reduces the growth of these huge calluses.
@@Noble4Truths That is not my point. Your calluses hurt precisely because you are using gloves. As soon as you stop using them, your body will get used to it and stop hurting altogether. And grip helps because it is precisely that friction that is causing the trouble, how much you can lift tells me absolutely nothing, the more you lift, the better grip you need.
Not sure wtf is Dr Mike on about here, but back when I was 15-16 doing pullups bare hand hurt like a bitch, so much that I didn't want to do them more than once a week, and it was the only lats/biceps work for me. Only after high school did I realize I could use damn scourer sponges to actually do pullups almost every day.
Some people have skin that rips too easily, sometimes especially with calluses. Wearing gloves means not having to take time off on those particular exercises to heal.
Gotta disagree! I get a better grip and no calluses. Also, my hands sweat profusely so it's a must for me!
Same. I think this one really just comes down to preference. Neither is objectively better or worse for 100% of people.
Same! I also sweat immensely and if I don't wear gloves all the equipment just slips away from my hands
sorry but if you think you get a better grip you simply have a weak grip and need to train without gloves even more than other people. there is zero chance of that being true for a normal person of even moderate strength. gloves move. skin doesn't without tearing.
@@jedinxf7 Wrong. Gloves use materials that enhance grip. Hands sweat, reducing grip.
@tizodd6 If you train with gloves all the time, your grip without gloves becomes weaker.
For once I don't agree with you. There is no compelling science to NOT wear gloves if you want to. it is 100% personal preference for what works for you. I HATE doing pullups because they hurt the skin on my hands. When I wear gloves it hurts LESS and I can almost always get 1-2 more reps with gloves than without.
I use weightlifting gloves that have reinforced leather on the pressure points and super thin breathable nylon on the backs and are fingerless. I don't really sweat through my palms so they don't get gunky.
I used to wear gloves when I was 16, and I can remember being unable to do simple pull downs without a lot of pain. But trust me, you don't need those, I never have any pain. It is by using gloves how you end up not being able to lift without them. Developing a better grip strength also helps.
Your body gets used to it. My callouses are developed pliable and smooth. You can hardly tell they’re there.
Gloves to me is a huge flag someone’s a noob around the gym. Same idea as wearing the pad on the bar for squats.
Source: 500 deadlift, +90lb pull up, 120lb db rows
@@charlies8282 I do 245lbs barbell rows with proper form while just having a 180lbs bodyweight, and +75lbs weighted pullups. If you think I'm a noob, I will slap you with my zero-calluses hand back to school.
@@harzemyalcinkaya empty internet threats. Gloves do nothing but give you a false sense that your hands will remain soft and dainty
@@charlies8282yeah guys hes right! Dont believe your lying eyes that your hands dont have callouses from using gloves.
Blew a blood vessel in my hand on a heavy hammer strength press. As an intermediate older lifter, my hands just dont have the padding they used to. Worn gloves ever since, and I don't see any reason not to.
For many particularly with sun exposure during their life, get thin skin, so that would protect them say age 50 or older.
Just use straps
@Tumorcoach Gee, thanks for tips, dipstick... How exactly would straps help with a push exercise?
@@hardcaliber19 the same way to helps for pulling dip shit….. or I’ll give you one better stop being a cry baby bitch and use your hands and adapt. Your old not dead suck it up bitch boy
@@hardcaliber19 not only did your mom raise pussy she raised a dumbass too😂😂
For repetitive calisthenics movements (especially when your hands are rubbing around the bar quite often) using gymnastic gloves or tapes are very ideal for preserving your skin and saving you lots of pain (not to prevent calluses).
I wear gloves all the time for lifting. With the extra padding I can squeeze the bar harder, and it keeps me from ripping the callouses on my hands. If you've ever ripped the callouses loose, you'll know how much this sucks.
Not to mention the wrist wrap helps with support and keeping you from going into extreme ranges of motion with the weights.
I actually work manually for a living so I need to keep my hands and wrists in good shape. Gloves help with that.
And yes, I wear gloves at work too.
Absolutely makes a difference. I get nasty callouses right under the MCP joints which is not nice because I also have eczema and fragile skin. Obviously if you're an actor or somebody who's job it is to look good on camera is also going to want to preserve their skin, this should be a no brainer. Plus you can lift heavier and longer with gloves, I'll never understand gymbros who load up on preworkout and creatine but refuse to use gloves.
Dame here buddy same kimd of skin amd exima
It's the friction from the inside of the glove vs the friction from a steel gnirled bar... They absolutely do help prevent tears. I know because I use to macho it, and not wear gloves... I tore my hands enough to stop that. I think hand size, and the amount of skin that you have that can get in the way are factors here.
It takes 80lbs per square inch for human flesh to tear, so having bigger hands is the best way to distribute more weight across the whole hand. Though filing down your callouses so the things don't tear away when all the weight is focused on the one area is the second best.
Pussboi.
I used them when starting to lift because of sweaty hands and low grip strength. After building grip strength I don’t use them anymore and feel fine. I still built callouses while wearing them though!
They don't help your grip strength. Use straps instead
@hasanc1526 Yeah, I stopped using them a while back, so I don't use anything now. But my deadlift is stuck right below 300 because of grip strength still, I can get up 315 a couple times but my fingers open up and I can't hold onto it. You think straps would help with that? I feel like if it weren't for my fingers than I could be doing alot more
@shanelayman8653 straps will definitely help but also, most good deadlifters hold the bar in the tip of their fingers so their hands are actually open
@hasanc1526 that's what happened on those couple of reps I did with 315 last week and my pointer fingers were f*cked for like 2 days afterwards lol but if that's normal technique then I'll just keep at it. Appreciate the insight bro!
@@shanelayman8653definitely get straps. Don't let grip limit your gains. BUT..only use the straps as much as you need. For things like your top sets or when your grip is exhausted. Do all your warm ups and some of your working sets without them to keep building grip.
I've lifted weights for quite some time and used various different types of gloves in the early days, they were mainly made of leather, and these would get quite funky pretty quickly. However, there are modern gloves that are made of fabric that gives outstanding support to the hands and the wrists. Should you be looking to invest in a pair of gloves, make sure they're washable and then you should be perfectly fine.
I wear similar gloves (i get them free from work) nice grip and 100% helps with calluses.
I work in a desk job and lifting is probably the only callus forming activity I do but with gloves I find I am actually forming calluses slowly but not at the cost of missed lifts due to my hands leaking blood everywhere and just having generally sore palms. If I can minimise any inconvenience and still make gains, I don’t care if my gloves look stupid tbh
On this, I have to disagree.
I wear fingerless gloves and they definitely help prevent callouses.
@@Moi_81but why would you want to prevent calluses? What’s the point in being strong enough to pick up a weight but your skin isn’t strong enough?
@@triple6jThey don’t look nice, and if you don’t trim them down they can peel off and take a few days to heal
I started wearing work gloves during the winter because the bars in my home gym were ice cold and I didn't want to deal with that during heavy pulls. My hands still get calloused, but not quite as badly, and it feels more comfortable on top of that.
The super cold home gym would probably fall under a specific compelling reason
This was me last winter, unheated garage, 4 am, -30C in Canada
After I started wearing gloves, my hands stopped developing callouses, like, entirely, full stop. Grip is also way more comfortable as you describe.
Love ya Mike but weightlifting gloves definitely help with the calluses! The only issue I have with them is buying a new pair every month since they always rip apart.
I wore them for padding, and they helped a lot when with callouses. They do get gross quickly, though, especially if you don't air them out.
I am female so maybe this advice is works more for guys. I don't do this often, but if weight is heavier I don't have to deal with the discomfort of holding the bar and can focus on the lift. Also helps me with grip.
As a female I use versa grips for bulg split squats and RDLs. My wrists are very tiny and petite so the grip support helps me hold onto the weight for more reps 🎉 but I have man hands (calluses are hot) haha
Versa grips aren’t gloves, it’s perfectly fine to use them for RDLs
If you are developing calluses while using gloves, you aren't using the proper gloves. I've been lifting for years with gloves, I have a sensitive skin, and I have zero calluses even with 245lbs barbell row and such. My hands are smooth as fuck and my lifts are just fine.
I like it to protect my hands from the aggressive knurling on my dumbbells. They tear up my hands otherwise. I wear cloth cloves though, not the rubber coated garden gloves.
I disagree, gloves have helped me massively. I have bad skin, gloves save my hands from being ripped apart by rough bars/ attachments
I have princess hands, I start having blisters almost every time I do heavy lifts, in particular deadlifts, pull ups and rows. Next time I train they pop, sometimes they get infected, no fun. I tried creaming my hands to prevent dryness using chalk for grip, so the bar doesn't move. No difference.
I still get calluses with gloves but otherwise my hands are fine, no blisters no bleeding. If I were an actor maybe I would be cautious about my hands too.
MASSIVE DISAGREE. Have been wearing gloves since I first got into the gym, calluses are fairly minimal. Left hand almost entirely clear. To me, they also provide great grip - I remember being 300 lbs and my hands getting sweaty so easily to the point where I could slip out of firm handshake (if that makes any sense), so I don't have to worry about that. Also, I find gripping (in terms of squeezing an object in your hand) pretty annoying/uncomfortable when it comes to dumbbells/barbells.
Run away fast when your proctologist says he doesn't need gloves.
But it does nothing for his calluses
He's doing some pretty extreme proctology if he gets calluses doing it 👀
My proctologist is a cute female 😊. I go in for my weekly exam 😊.
it does help, when you grab someone hand or shake hands, it does not scratch others
I use "gardening gloves" also. The palm portion contains a rubber-like material that helps to hold onto the bar far better when doing exercises such as pull-ups and deadlifts. And they do help with mitigating calluses as well.....I'm just saying......
Gloves are the sole reason deadlifts haven't torn the skin off my hands and scarred them 😅
Use chalk and or straps like a real man
@@primetimetruecrime9233straps that do the grip work for you make you a real man? Interesting...
Lifting gloves provide a non-sweaty yet sticky surface for pressing/pushing movements. They enhance grip and provide a bit more peace of mind in terms of stability.
I’ve used them for a decade (years ago) to great effect, and having gotten back into lifting several months ago, I made sure to buy a fresh pair of Grizzlies.
I think there must be a large variation in peoples keratinized skin tissue, since my hands do not callous under a y circumstance. They will however blister like a mf. I used to work as a landscaper and gloves are a must for me.
Even with gloves i will get blisters on the daily, so my hands are always soft an fresh......sometimes maybe just flesh....
I am a Glove Enjoyer and you will never take my gloves away Mike. They provide extremely superior grip and my wife doesn’t feel like I’m sanding away her upper layer of skin when we make love.
get a appropriate fat creme and your calluses will go from abrasive and brittle to flexble and soft
@@maxsk9074 I’ll probably get wiener pimples or something from the hand grease
@@Electric_ there are too many different options for all to not work 😂
@@maxsk9074
This logic is never good.
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Maybe it depends on the gloves, but I've trained with and without gloves and it does make a huge difference for me. No calluses form when I wear gloves. And I wash them regularly, so they don't stink or get funky.
I don’t use gloves but I use grip pads, they make hell of a difference. Don’t trust everything you see on the internet.
I love it when someone says shit with a ton of confidence like it's the factual truth.
Speak for yourself! They protect hands from calluses, blisters, and abrasions, especially during weightlifting or high-repetition workouts.
Having dupuytrens disease, wrist wraps absolutely are helping with pain.
What helped me the most was learning to adjust my grip so that I'm not pinching the balls of my hands.
That alone made a bigger difference than all the other bs things i was taught from gloves to jergens.
I wear gloves sometimes and the reason is - the standard weightifting bar (not the olympic one) is a bit too thin for my fists. The gloves "thicken" the bar so I can grab it better. And it's not a grip issue, I have an excellent grip.
But I agree that you will still get callouses even with gloves.
I wear workout gloves because the sweat will literally make the dumbbell slip out my hand and hit my face. Learned that with an 80 pound dumbbell. Don’t need to learn it again
Great video! I’ve never used gloves while lifting. Using gloves for better grip strength can be counterproductive. Using chalk, wrist straps or versa gripps are far better options. Lifting with bare hands can also toughen and thickens the skin which makes it more resilient which is a huge benefit. Most elite lifters don’t use gloves at all. I’ve noticed that most people who use gloves while lifting are generally newbies or inexperienced lifters who are quite weak. 💪
Is Ronnie Coleman a newbie aswell
@@SublineYT I clearly said that “I’ve noticed that most people who use gloves while lifting are generally newbies” and not everyone in every circumstance. You can definitely find a few exceptions to every case. Also, just because an elite or advanced lifter does something doesn’t always mean it’s always optimal or even necessary. Ronnie Coleman also lifted superhuman weights which aren’t always the most SFR friendly and induces a lot of fatigue which isn’t really ideal for hypertrophy. If you look at strongman and powerlifting competitors or any other strength sports athletes then you can notice that they don’t use gloves at all even in their off season training. Most strength sports don’t allow gloves. Just ask any strength sport athlete the question that why don’t they wear gloves. It doesn’t feel very natural to most. They’re also an extremely suboptimal lifting gear especially when compared to other lifting gear. We’ve access to much better gear like wrist straps, wrist wraps, chalk, versa gripps and you can also use mixed grip or hook grip. Some lifters might use gloves because their calluses are causing too much discomfort in certain cases and they can’t tolerate it sometime. Gloves don’t feel natural to most simply because you have a thick layer of some material between you and the barbell, dumbbell or machine handles. They don’t allow you to feel the knurling of the barbell or dumbbell and don’t allow you to form a great mind muscle connection that you can have otherwise. Using them makes most lifters feel less efficient neurologically and doesn’t allow you to feel very primed and makes performance not as good.
Deadlifts cured me of glove-wearing. They basically widened the bar, and my weak, short fingers couldn’t maintain a grip.
My hands sweat ALOT, wearing gloves helps very much thanks
I get blisters just by grazing a piece of equipment, gardening gloves help me, the silicon bits give you a better grip so, less blisters.
I wear gloves with built in wrist wraps for wrist support which stopped my wrist pain over time.
Only if you want to engage in handholding activities.
As my grip fails without gloves, my calluses may rip so badly they bleed, which really gets in the way of that and future workouts.
Yep, they don't really protect you supple little man paws because while friction plays some role in the formation of callouses the primary cause is pressure.
I say use glovesif you get bumpy callouses if it gets torn you can get warts. I use gloves for safety and so I dont accidentally tear my callous. It wont get rid of callouses it just decreases risk
Mike I normally respect your content, but not today. I've been a gym rat for over four decades. First off, tightly-fitting gloves, especially full-fingered batting or receiver gloves, give you a better grip, especially if you're sweatty. They keep your calluses from tearing and protect your skin from ultra-agressive knurling. Each to his own, but there are more advantages to gloves than disadvantages.
I used to train ‘tactical fitness’ for paramedics/police/military that’s literally the only reason to do to it imo
If I tweak my wrist, or theyvare just feeling banged up, gloves can give them extra support to allow me to train despite having a minor injury. Apart from this, I don't really use them.
I use all metal bars and they shred my hands , I also have snapped most the bones in both my hands and fingers , most my knuckles are 2-3 segments and float so gloves are a massive must for me when lifting
I get really bad eczema on my hands. Wearing gloves protects them.
If I ever forget my gloves, I end up damaging my hands a lot worse than I normally would in a workout.
I don't need them so much anymore but I started wearing them because it helped with grip fatigue during long full body or just long arm workouts. These days I train differently because of age and multiple serious illnesses so it's not really an issue but I recall wearing out gloves and heavy bags a few times in my teens-20s. Oh to have that durability these days.... I'm way cooler looking now though.
Only wear em if you're worth hundreds of millions like Wahlberg
I wear gardening gloves I buy at the dollar store and they are magical: better grip, complete reduction of calluses, keeps my hands cleaner.
I have no idea why he would say gloves don't prevent calluses. Weird.
I don’t usually wear gloves but there was this gym i went to where lifting heavy would just tear the skin off my hands, make me bleed and i stopped repping out deadlifts mid set not because i was weak in my muscles but because i was bleeding too much. I believe you would agree this is a case where gloves are beneficial.
Yeah, i can tell from personal expirence, it dosen't help with grip, but it helps protect your skin from being damaged (so less pain wich may be a small limiting factor perhaps, at least for novices who wanna make quick progress) from holding tight while lifting and well it dosen't really have any downsides other than they cost some money. I couldn't find the wrist rolling thingies so i got those gloves, but it's not a total regret tbh. And i can use them in winter anyway so yeah, they're ok.
i use them for more grip on my dumbells gardengloves and yes it does work
Maybe Mark Wahlberg has a secret 2nd career as a hand model?
🤨
Yeah called "wristies 24/7"
I found that training with gloves caused me to have grip issues - the ever so slight padding of the glove meant it was harder to grip something firmly, so often my grip would give out before the muscles being worked would. Ditched the gloves, gained the callouses but also gained strength because of it
I use straps for most pulling exercises because I have arthritis, but you are correct, they do nothing for the calluses.
I could never wear gloves, couldn’t feel the weight. I couldn’t wear a headset either, couldn’t hear it move.
Superior grip and prevents wear that would then prevent me from participating in racquetball.. the grip is sooo much better plus germs and other reasons. Full finger too
Your high if you think actual lifting gloves don't reduce calluses and dmg to the hand. For me it makes my grip last longer less burn out.
I told the guys at the foundry that gloves were useless until I melted a couple of my fingers.
Safety gloves is a completely different thing
i need hem for the padding. do what ever makes you comfortable to get your training done, there's no right or wrong way here
I use them bc my homegym barbell and dumbbells have really shit knirling and are just slippery....
Get some chalk!
@@robinsharkey6658 My bedroom is my gym, I live in a shared flat, I'm not gonna use chalk and make a mess everytime I exercise
I wear gloves because my hands hurt because of the checkered patern on most barbells and because i get a similar effect than from chalk (I'm too poor to buy chalk)
Maybe he just sweats so much. That is the case for me and that severely limits grip strength.
I have abnormally large hands, and I find wearing gloves helps me generate more power, especially when it comes to compound movements
tendency to (extra?) sweaty palms when about a 1/4 through the workout or so when ur'e totally warm I can at times get sweaty hands to the point I feel it messes with my grip. So the part about the gloves being sweaty is true, needs to be washed often for sure but I feel it makes a positive difference.
False, wearing gloves greatly reduces or stops calluses forming on your hands. They can also have wraps to keep your wrists straight with your forearms. They are also potentially and quite likely as aid to biohazard prevention, namely getting covid as that touches the gym equipment instead of bare skin.
Got eczema on my hands and my skin is bad enough without them. Also as someone who grew up in countryside, doing plenty of physical work in my school years, I really disagree that gloves don't do anything for calluses.
I tore a callous off while dead lifting recently, it was kinda nasty and as I increase my weight with dead lifts, the limiting factor is the bar tearing at my palms and the pain effects ROM on the eccentric greatly. Deadlifts tomorrow, so I'll try with gloves
Read this as "Don't wear clothes in the gym" for some reason and was prepared for some insanity
"it does nothing for your calluses" yes it does. My calluses don't hurt when I wear gloves and they do hurt when I don't wear gloves.
I have weak wrists, so I wear gloves with wrist stabilizers on them sometimes when benching.
well it definitely help prevent my calluses from getting worst lol
Does nothing for your calluses true. But gripads make a world of a difference and I’d rather focus on being able to lift the weight than endure the pain of the skin of my hand grinding against knurled bars
Not having callus is a very good reason
I used to lift without gloves and developed callouses. Then I started wearing batting gloves years ago and they absolutely DO stop calluses from developing. And what's this about "gunky and gooey"? That's not a thing
I had horrible calluses when I didn't use gloves. Now my hands are perfect even though I lift 10x more
I wear it to supress the pain a little and better grip
I wear gloves with the wrist support and because the gym equipment is old and ppl dont clean up after their set
I wear training gloves in the winter. But then my garagegym is not heated so the first 20 minutes dumbells barbell, and attachments arefreezing
People in most really rough physical jobs wear gloves. I don't know why using machines and heavy objects in the gym would be different.
Seems counter intuitive. I wear gloves when i do manual work and it diminishes blisters and calluses.
Are we sure about this statement?
Yep true your choice
Many a brain dead motorcyclist said he didn't need a helmet.
Without gloves, downward facing dog becomes downward sliding dog.
I keep gloves around for when I tear a callous in the middle of a workout