Barbell & Deadlift Gloves

Walk into any UK powerlifting club on a Tuesday night and you’ll spot two camps almost instantly: the chalk-covered lifters chalking up between every set, and the ones quietly pulling on barbell gloves for powerlifting before they touch the bar. Neither camp is wrong, exactly — but they’re solving slightly different problems, and conflating the … Read more

Your hands take a battering long before your legs and back start complaining on a deadlift. Anyone who’s pulled a heavy triple off the floor without protection knows the specific sting of a barbell’s diamond knurling biting into soft skin — and the way it makes you loosen your grip half a second before you’d … Read more

Your hands are doing more honest work than almost any other part of your body on deadlift day, and yet they’re the part you probably think about least — right up until the bar starts peeling skin off your palm mid-set. Deadlift gloves under £20 sit in an odd little pocket of the fitness market: … Read more