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I think you'll enjoy them. I find they last a long time too. I think my last pair lasted me 3 years and that's 3 days a week of lifting weights consistently.
And folks that don't like to touch nasty barbells, loaded with other peoples' germs; during cold and flu season.
I've seen guys in the locker room with warts too, and this is a nice fitness center. Others using the urinal w/o washing hands, then returning to the floor.
No way I'm touching any equipment w/o gloves.
You should probably wear gloves everywhere then - going in/out of doors (door handles), flushing toilets, cash register checkouts, grocery carts, elevator buttons, your own cellphone, etc. etc. Just wash your hands after you workout and don't touch your face.
I agree, gloves are for girls. When I see a guy wearing gloves my first thought is "Amateur."
I can certainly understand if one wants to use gloves to make it easier to lift for whatever reason, but using gloves for hygienic reasons makes zero sense as turf3 explains so well.
If it's hygiene one is so concerned about, better off just wiping down the equipment including dumbbells/barbell/plates than using porous gloves.
I'm a germ-a-phobe, I generally try and avoid touching certain things. But a gym is a gym....it's dirty and you simply cannot avoid touching things that other people have touched, it's the very nature of a shared/public gym environment. Wiping things down might help but it also makes you look like a crazy person. I see people who actually put wipes inbetween their hands and the barbells/grips and always think how pointless it all is. These same people touch the door handle on their way out of the gym, which is almost guaranteed to have far more germs than a dumbbell that might "only" get touched a few dozen times a day.
Back to gloves......I see women wear them and don't think anything of it. If it helps with grip or to avoid roughing up one's hands, I get that. As a man who has lifted weights for 30+ years never having worn gloves of any kind, my hands are really not that torn up.
Do you wear exercise gloves? I don't but I did a couple of times in the past but I didn't like them. It felt unnatural and my grip felt weird. I like the feeling of grabbing the bars and handles of machines with my bare hands. When I need a grip boost I use lifting straps and chalk. How is your experience with exercise gloves?
Do you mean gloves for running outdoors in winter?
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