Top Benefits of Wearing Workout / Weight Lifting Gloves

Here are the top benefits of wearing gloves for lifting weights.

For many, wearing weight lifting gloves is a personal choice. Many are comfortable using them, and won’t go to the gym without their weight lifting gloves. Others (advanced, professional weight lifters) claim they interfere with their workout.

Advantages

However, for many, there are several pros of using weight lifting gloves.

• Provides a better grip on weights (Hands easily get sweaty during workouts.)
• They protect from calluses, blisters, cuts
• Prevents direct contact with germs (common on shared gym equipment)
• Workout gloves are comfortable to wear and allows you to move beyond the limitations of your hands.
• Most weight lifting gloves also wrap around your wrists, which provides additional support to the wrists, making it easy to support heavy weights.

Dis-Advantages?

As mentioned, advanced (and professional) weight lifters are not usually comfortable wearing gloves for weight training as they feel the gloves interfere with their lifting techniques.

Although that is not proven, wearing gloves for workout is definitely a personal choice, and many find it to be beneficial.