Fitness gloves are actually designed to help people better protect their hands.
Fitness gloves can improve our grip strength during training, and at the same time avoid too much friction with cocoons when we hold the equipment.
Fitness gloves are generally made of all kinds of leather, rubber and composite materials, and are divided into full-finger gloves, half-finger gloves and power-assisted belts according to their shapes.
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1, the benefits of fitness gloves
Fitness gloves really put an end to the problem of direct contact between the palm and the equipment. The glove lining is in direct contact with the skin to avoid the direct wear of the barbell bar on the skin, and the glove lining is much softer. But it can't stop the palms from cocooning. If you have used fitness gloves, you will know that they still cocoon, but not as violently as before. Gloves can only prevent the direct contact between the instrument and the palm, but they can't prevent the instrument from squeezing the skin. The cocoon on the hand is not caused by the abrasion of the instrument to the skin, but by repeated folding and squeezing of the skin. Therefore, wearing fitness gloves for training will also cocoon. Anyone with a little common sense of life should know that anti-friction can prevent water bubbles, but it must not prevent cocoons.
2. Disadvantages of fitness gloves
Wearing gloves means adding another layer of things at the same time. Grab the horizontal bar, barbell, etc. Once again, it will make the grip thicker, that is, the unarmed grip designed by the equipment manufacturer. Because of the addition of a layer of fitness gloves, the grip is worse and even unstable. You can't hold it so tightly, especially inconvenient pull-ups.
3. Preventive measures
Fitness gloves are just a protective device to avoid direct contact between the palm and the equipment and avoid palm wear. The protection of the wrist is minimal. If you need to protect your wrist, I suggest you buy a professional wristband. If you want to increase the grip, it is recommended to buy a booster belt. However, it can still be used to protect the palm from abrasion and reduce some unnecessary skin wear on the hand in movements that are not so demanding on grasping. For example, you can use some dumbbell movements.