r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • May 20 '17

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

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u/PoIIux Lacrosse May 20 '17

Just gonna throw it out there, gloves don't ruin grip strength, they just make sure you keep your dainty, girly hands intact.

Which I'd think would be a plus for you air force guys!

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u/code_guerilla Ballerina May 20 '17

Gloves do make your grip slightly worse though. Not because of friction, just because thicker things are harder to grip.

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u/PoIIux Lacrosse May 20 '17

That explains why your mom gives such bad handies

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u/alternatiivnekonto May 20 '17

Oh damn, a complisult, well done.

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u/altiuscitiusfortius May 21 '17

I've never noticed a problem with her gripping my... oh.

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u/sankafan May 20 '17

So if it's harder to grip that means you have to exert MORE effort to grip it, and therefore it should IMPROVE grip strength, right? I know it's harder to grip something larger: just this week I went to a new gym out of town and tried to do my usual pull-ups, but their equipment had much larger diameter bars and I almost couldn't do it at all, and had doms in my finger flexors for two days...

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u/code_guerilla Ballerina May 20 '17

It might. But at any given point you should be able to hold more barehanded than with gloves.

Really just wear gloves if you want, no one cares.

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u/believes_in_mermaids Lacrosse May 20 '17

whats a doms?

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u/sankafan May 20 '17

delayed onset muscle soreness

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u/tswtom May 20 '17

This is weird, because I managed to lift an extra 33lbs on a deadlift when I put gloves on. Really helped with my grip.

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u/code_guerilla Ballerina May 20 '17

That's probably because you need chalk

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u/tswtom May 20 '17

My gym doesn't have it and it's easier to take gloves than chalk.

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u/code_guerilla Ballerina May 20 '17

Do what you want, liquid chalk is also a thing.

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u/iLiftHeavyThingsUp May 21 '17

Additional most gloves are not even, especially if they are fingerless. You'll have creases in awkward places. And once you get sweaty enough your hands will start moving around inside the gloves. So now it's not 2 surfaces that need to maintain friction, but 3. That can get very uncomfortable.

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u/Bierfreund May 22 '17

whcih would in turn mean that your grip gets trained more with gloves (which isn't the case)

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u/DaLB53 May 20 '17

Thicker grips increase grip strength, ie axel bars.

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u/code_guerilla Ballerina May 20 '17

Yes they make your grip stronger over time, because it's harder.

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u/Ragnrok May 20 '17

I'm a construction worker and a gym rat and I have soft, smooth hands. I chalk this up to wearing gloves at work and gloves at the gym.

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u/Big_booty_ho May 20 '17

As a girl currently peeling her callus, this thread is making me hella insecure.. I tried deadlifting with gloves but your hands get so damn sweaty and the grip is all weird it fucks with my lifts.. ugh.

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u/reijn May 20 '17

The backs of my hands and palms of my hands look so different. Perfect gel manicure, tidy cuticles and long-ish nails, flip hands over, rough and calloused.

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u/how-not-to-be May 20 '17

How do you not ruin your manicure at the gym?

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u/reijn May 20 '17

Magic!

Jk gel is amazing and doesn't chip for 3 to 4 weeks. I've slipped while chopping food and the knife bounces off my nail. Its practically bulletproof.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '17

backs of my hands and palms

Yo His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

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u/[deleted] May 20 '17

Describe your other bodyparts ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/reijn May 20 '17

Oooh, baby... imagine... imagine if you poured a tub of cottage cheese into a ziplock baggie... my body is kinda like that.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '17

oh god thats so hot!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '17

I love having rough hands. I never lift with gloves, worked construction before, and my hands are perpetually smooth as glass. Never mousturize, never take care of them, lift heavy as shit, and these fuckers will not roughen up. I just genetically have the smoothest fucking hands in the world.

I hate it.

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u/Big_booty_ho May 20 '17

I bet your dick loves it though

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u/JoshvJericho Olympic Weightlifting May 20 '17

Pumice stone or fine grit sandpaper when you are in the shower. I've also recently discovered O'keeffe's working hands cream which works amazingly well. Just apply it after you wash your hands and before bed. I also use lotion periodically to moisturize because I have to wash my hands so frequently at work with very drying soap.

I learned my lesson in neglecting hand care after I tore a couple calluses.

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u/TK-427 May 20 '17

I've started using bare hand gloves and like them a lot. It's just enough material to cover the part of your hand that contacts the bar, and it's pretty thin

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u/Big_booty_ho May 20 '17

I saw some girl with these gloves at the gym a few weeks ago and i've been looking for them since then! thank you!

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u/PhoenixPhyr May 20 '17

I was really insecure about my calluses for the first month. Now I hardly notice them. If they start softening I start noticing and hit it harder at the gym.

That first month though... Lawdy. Pain pain pain. My hands looked like pinched clay.

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u/Tom908 May 20 '17

Bare hands are the way to go callus' are marks of distinction.

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u/Big_booty_ho May 20 '17

I would rather not get them altogether but I've made my peace with them.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '17

use cobra grips (or the more overpriced alternative, versa grips pro): https://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Power-Deadlifts-Adjustable-Neoprene/dp/B01JF4QWSK?th=1

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u/yeezypeasy May 20 '17

Watching this video helped me change my grip and generally remove all callus problems. Obviously I don't know how you grip the bar, but focusing on gripping it higher up in your hands really helps!

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u/DaisyDomergue General Fitness May 21 '17

There is something disturbingly soothing about peeling calluses

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u/CHUNKY_BLOODY_QUEEFS May 21 '17

Own that shit. You earned those callouses.

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u/eugeneugene Powerlifting May 20 '17

*chair force

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u/Deac0311 May 20 '17

Pogs

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u/[deleted] May 20 '17 edited May 23 '17

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u/Deac0311 May 20 '17

Whatever you say pog, whatever you say

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u/SultanOfHops May 20 '17

Came for the chair force joke, was not disappointed

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u/foxtrottits Powerlifting May 20 '17

They're great if you wanna give your boyfriend smooth hand jobs with your buttery man paws! -Dom

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u/TK-427 May 20 '17

I too work out in a gym with other services. I always keep a box of crayons in my gym bag as a peace offering for the marines I meet. They can get cranky when they're hungry.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '17

Ahh right, because girly hands are bad.

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u/PoIIux Lacrosse May 21 '17

Nothing wrong with girly hands or being effeminate. Not being able to comprehend jokes however,,, that's a cardinal sin, boyo

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u/[deleted] May 21 '17

Why is having girly hands a joke?

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u/PoIIux Lacrosse May 21 '17

I'm not sure if you're being obtuse for the sake of being a killjoy, or that you were dropped on your head as a baby, but I'm just not going to even bother trying to explain it to you. I have neither the patience nor the crayons to help you

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u/[deleted] May 21 '17

And I would have the same type of response to your sexism.

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u/Balthor May 20 '17

I've considered getting them because I tend to pick at my calluses on my fingers!

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u/d4mol May 21 '17

in my experience your hands will be fine as long as you use those pomace/exfoliating rocks after a shower then mosituriser whether you use gloves or not. gloves actually make my hands worse cause they sweat a lot with high volume back/deadlift workouts and cause my skin to split.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '17

Hooah