Gloves are blindfolds for the hands
Who the heck wants smoove lady hands anyway? Lose the gloves and your hands will toughen up.
I’ve been working my grip more directly lately.
Has anyone noticed how the COC grippers rasp the skin off your hands?
Billy
PGA,
If you are serious about increasing your grip strength check out a book called “Mastery of Hand Strength” by John Brookfield. It’s pretty cheap and it has a lot of good exercises for increasing various stages of grip strength.
Five you beat me to it! Brookfield is a great read. He is down to earth and makes grip work fun. Painful but fun. He also has a new book out The Grip Masters Manual. Just ordered it so I’ll put a review when I get it.
I didn’t like brookfields book.
It’s basically a carpentry book on how to build your own grip tools.
PGA: You have a weakness; fix it. Gripping the bar is part of the deadlift. You shouldn’t need a crutch like straps, unless you’re deadlifting at least 500 pounds (which I doubt you are or you wouldn’t ask this question). Forearms are meant to grip, now grip!!!
Archaic once I lost the gloves my grip hasn’t weakend or failed me for my 4x6’s. So I lost that crutch.
Billy,
When I was a young girly man, like you, the COC grippers hurt my hands too. Ten thousand reps later I feel nothing!
(Just kidding you Billy-The COC grippers do have a rough grip. Then again you need that so your hand won’t slip off-It’s all good pal)
ha ha.
The sucky part is I can’t even rib you for being old and weak!
Well, maybe just old!
Billy
With regards to the grip weakness, like everyone else that has posted, ditch the gloves and lift raw…
This whole lifting gloves thing has gone too far… don’t you know a gimmick when you see one ? There was an article I read either on Testosterone or in Men’s Health (can’t recall right now) whereby studies showed that lifting with gloves actually decreased the CNS response to lifting because the padding in the gloves muted a strength response from the nerves in the hand near the pinky & ring fingers that was beneficial to lifting heavy weights…
Either way, address the issues that you face and try to build up your grip strength in other complementary heavy pulling exercises… It gets complicated but as you know everyone’s build and muscular endurance varies; sometimes a strong grip does not = overall strength…
Bottom line; use chalk,or non slip grip wrap (like the kind that keeps your dishrack from falling off your kitchen counter; a few dollars at the dollar store for a roll) and KEEP LIFTING.