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Re: Gloves and Straps?
« Reply #50 on: March 16, 2012, 05:23:33 AM »
Use straps for a few select exercises where the grip gives out before the muscle you are working. Shrugs are a good example. I also use them for semi stiff deadlifts. I don't want to quit due my grip giving out. Dumbbell rows is another. I use them for these three exercises.

I don't know why anyone would use gloves. Doesn't a man's hand's supposed to feel like a man's hand or should they be soft like a woman's?

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Re: Gloves and Straps?
« Reply #51 on: March 16, 2012, 06:50:32 PM »
Use straps for a few select exercises where the grip gives out before the muscle you are working. Shrugs is a good example. I also use them for semi stiff deadlifts. I don't want to quit due my grip giving out. Dumbbell rows is another. I use them for these three exercises.

I don't know why anyone would use gloves. Doesn't a man's hand's supposed to feel like a man's hand or should they be soft like a woman's?

Gloves will also increase the surface area of your hand, making them smaller and your grip will decrease - like using a fat bar

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Re: Gloves and Straps?
« Reply #52 on: March 22, 2012, 11:42:31 AM »
Use straps for a few select exercises where the grip gives out before the muscle you are working. Shrugs are a good example. I also use them for semi stiff deadlifts. I don't want to quit due my grip giving out. Dumbbell rows is another. I use them for these three exercises.

I don't know why anyone would use gloves. Doesn't a man's hand's supposed to feel like a man's hand or should they be soft like a woman's?


So far gloves didn't make my hands soft at all.  But when my skin is dry and cracks & bleeds uhh it is inside my glove and not all over the equipment.  Which is nice!   8)  Plus yeah it makes it like using a fat bar and grip actually got a little better. 

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Re: Gloves and Straps?
« Reply #53 on: March 25, 2012, 12:11:20 AM »
If grip is a problem then use straps and train your grip separately
Holding back progress on other lifts because your grip is weak or you use gloves is silly

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Re: Gloves and Straps?
« Reply #54 on: April 01, 2012, 08:32:51 PM »
Straps come into play once my grip goes.

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Re: Gloves and Straps?
« Reply #55 on: April 02, 2012, 01:58:55 PM »
straps, gloves, full suits, bench shirts... no, no, and no.  ::)

nothing is more pathetic than a powerlifter using all this gear and it allows him to lift more than a hundred pounds more.  total cheating and fake.  no respect for this at all.

when it comes to bodybuilding, I still use none. 

if your going to use gloves or straps you better be doing more than 5 reps.  not putting on this gear just for some useless 1 rep.

I only advocate the use of chalk!  I use it only on my heaviest sets for deadlifts when the grip starts to go.

anything else in my books is lame.

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Re: Gloves and Straps?
« Reply #56 on: April 02, 2012, 08:50:55 PM »
straps, gloves, full suits, bench shirts... no, no, and no.  ::)

nothing is more pathetic than a powerlifter using all this gear and it allows him to lift more than a hundred pounds more.  total cheating and fake.  no respect for this at all.

when it comes to bodybuilding, I still use none. 

if your going to use gloves or straps you better be doing more than 5 reps.  not putting on this gear just for some useless 1 rep.

I only advocate the use of chalk!  I use it only on my heaviest sets for deadlifts when the grip starts to go.

anything else in my books is lame.
You sound like my gimmick now.
Liar!!!!Filt!!!!

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Re: Gloves and Straps?
« Reply #57 on: April 03, 2012, 05:21:46 AM »
You sound like my gimmick now.

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