I really don’t think one can make his hands much tougher simply by omitting to use gloves unless we’re talking about the inclusion of training specifically dedicated to hand strength. Then you would probably want to save your hands by using gloves when doing regular training.
Still, I don’t get your point. How tough would one’s hands need to be to undertake daily activities? Even when doing physical jobs, I’ve never needed, nor known anyone who needed extra training to toughen their hands outside of what was done on the job.
The pussy pad has its place! Jump squats. It drastically reduces the chance of fracturing your vertebrae upon landing. It’s not from the loading but there’s a chance that the bar can actually chip the bone.
And I scored $130. I always leave 1 plate on the leg press and usually bench. I don’t wipe down equipment unless I leave sweat on it (we should probably just take responsibility for wiping stuff down BEFORE we use it). CrossFit WODs (never actually done it at a gym with the group). And the bar pad for jump squats.
I worked an entire summer doing landscaping without gloves. At one point we were laying a sidewalk made of patio paver stones. The water saw and stones wrecked my hands so bad that the buttons on my truck radio burned my fingertips from the tiny amount of heat emitted by the lights.
I still didn’t wear gloves. Sadly, all that hand toughness wore off within weeks once I stopped working.
I guess 30 douche-dollars for me (why is this in dollars, is it a fine?), but really just because it was in my basement, probably would be 0 if elsewhere.
Also, for Valentine’s day, we are thankfully in the “ignore it and hit a Mexican restaurant” tradition. Never need a reservation and we can bring the kiddo and not worry about it. I would highly recommend this.
Dropping the regular plates has resulted in craters on the sides of the platform. It’s a pain in the ass trying to deadlift or clean when one side of the bar keeps pulling away.
Shit dude, I’d be happy if my bumpers were just the standard 45s. We have the big ol 55lb ones so You have to go farther to reach the “cool looking” milestones (to get the cool looking 5 plate deadlift I have to get to 515 instead of 495) purely out of ego, but it makes me feel cheated lmao
The clowns who go dicking about a gym, looking high and low for a pussy pad then deciding not to squat as they can’t find a pad, they’re the one who fall into the ‘pussy camp’ perhaps?
I was talking to one guy in the gym who was a on a pussy pad hunt. I asked him why he needed it and he told me that ‘his girlfriend didn’t like what it was doing to his back, making his skin dry and stuff’
So his girlfriend was dictating his training regime.
