6 Benifits of Protecting Your Hands – Wear CrossFit Gloves, Don’t Let this Happen to you!

No CrossFit Gloves during a WOD

Having been involved in CrossFit and working out in over a dozen CrossFit gyms over the years, we’ve seen a real shift in thinking over the past few years about wearing CrossFit Gloves and Hand Protection during workouts.  Athletes and companies have realized how tearing up hands can lead to missed WOD’s, less effective workouts, and in some cases infections.  There are a lot of products out there designed to save your hands during workouts, a few we recommend are the brand new Stronger RX 3.0 CrossFit Gloves, W.O.D. Welder Products, and Hand Armor Chalk.  Check out our entire selection of CrossFit Gloves and accessories designed to keep your hands blister free and healthy during intense CrossFit WODs.

STRONGER RX 3.0 CROSSFIT GLOVESW.O.D Welder CrossFit CreamHand Armor Workout Chalk 2 and 4oz bottles

 

6 BENEFITS OF WEARING CROSSFIT GLOVES:
1.Improved Grip: CrossFit Gloves improve your grip on weights. Hands get sweaty during a workout. This can be annoying if you are doing pull ups and keep falling off the bar. It is also dangerous if you are holding heavy weights over your body. CrossFit Gloves make CrossFit Workouts safer.

2.Blisters: A tiny blister can prevent a CrossFit athlete from using his hands that day. CrossFit Gloves prevent blisters. If you have a blister try W.O.D Welder CrossFit Cream to fix it quick and get back to the gym.

3.Pressure Relief: Padded CrossFit Gloves relieve pressure placed on your hands when heavy weights.  This in turn leads to less hand pain allowing you to lift more.

4.Wrist Support: CrossFit Gloves that feature Wrist Support, or Wrist Support by itself, can be valuable to any athlete, Wrist Support wraps acts like extra ligaments and tendons when the wrist is bent backward. CrossFit Gloves and Wrist Support help prevent wrist injuries.

5.Increased Lift: CrossFit Gloves can make you stronger. They do this by distributing the weight being lifted across the forearms instead of making your fingers hold it all. This is especially effective in pulling exercises like dead-lifts or upright rows.

6.Germs at the Gym: Gyms are some of the dirtiest places that you go on a daily basis, and germs are transferred when you grab equipment that dozens of other athletes have used that day wearing CrossFit Gloves leads to less germs being spread in the gym and prevents nasty diseases like staph and impetigo.