Should I wear gloves or not? I recommend wearing, and have at least two types of gloves
For people who like street health, the horizontal bar can be said to be the most important sports equipment, whether it is a variety of basic pull-ups, or advanced double lever arms, front level and other magic actions, are completed on the horizontal bar, but for the sports novice who has just contacted the horizontal bar, do not need to wear gloves has always been a controversial topic.
The reason for the controversy is also very simple, because some people think that the hands are easy to cocoon without gloves, and the cocoon will explode after a long time, thus affecting the training, but at the same time, some people think that the gloves will cause the hands can not directly contact the horizontal bar, thus affecting the strengthening of the grip.
From my personal experience, it is still recommended that beginners prepare at least two pairs of gloves, but not all horizontal bar training needs to wear gloves, there are mainly the following three situations may need to wear gloves:
1. Just learned the pull-up and is in the quantitative stage of lifting
If you have not learned the pull-up, then I do not recommend wearing gloves, because you need to gradually find the feeling of hand contact with the horizontal bar, if you wear gloves from the beginning of practice, the subsequent removal of gloves may affect the feeling of the bar.
But if you have been able to complete 1-2 pull-ups and are in the stage of increasing the number of pull-ups, at this time you should be familiar with the feeling of touching the bar, and the impact on you to complete more pull-ups may not be arm strength, but because the finger grip is not enough, that is to say, you may be able to do more pull-ups, but because the fingers have no strength to grip the horizontal bar. So I had to go down.
Although the root cause is that your grip is not enough, but on the surface you may feel that “horizontal bar is too slippery”, at this time I suggest that you can try to wear a pair of palm position with rubber and other materials to increase the friction of gloves, summer can choose short fingers, and as thin as possible, general search “summer sports gloves” can be found.
2. Practice pull-ups in winter
If it is winter practice, of course, it is the choice of thick cotton gloves, the general search for “winter non-slip gloves” can be found, especially in the northern region, the outdoor horizontal bar direct contact in winter must be very cold, so more than horizontal bar beginners, even old hands may also have to wear a pair of gloves.
3. Double lever arms, flexion and extension, etc
Since this kind of action requires rotating the wrist, the palm is of course holding the bar rotation, compared to the ordinary pull-up is easier to cocoon, so it is recommended to wear gloves when practicing this kind of action, but because these actions need to reduce the friction between the palm and the horizontal bar, so we directly choose linear gloves or pure cloth gloves can be, and for people who have just begun to learn these actions, It’s also easier to roll your wrists.
For example, our most common white labor protection gloves can be, remember that it is nylon wire material, do not choose latex material, you can also choose velvet material gloves.
However, it is basically impossible to contact the horizontal bar completely without calluses, and when we cross the novice stage, when the completion of the above actions are basically not wearing gloves, by then it is only recommended that you pay attention to some easy calluses, the number of action training of calluses is not too much, if there may be a long period of time can not train, then it is not worth the loss.
