Expert Glove Reviews for Every Sport, Job & Season
If you’ve ever pulled on a pair of “one-size” gym gloves and watched a good two centimetres of empty leather flap around past your fingertips, you already know the problem. Most gym gloves are still built on a male hand template, and for anyone with a genuinely petite hand, that means bunched fabric in your … Read more
Somewhere around your third set of deadlifts, your grip gives out before your legs do. That’s usually the moment women’s gym gloves stop being a “nice to have” and start being a genuine training tool. A decent pair of women’s gym gloves does two unglamorous but important jobs: it stops the bar from shredding your … Read more
Your hands work harder than almost any other part of you at the gym, and yet they’re usually the last thing anyone thinks to kit out properly. You’ll spend an hour picking the right leggings and thirty seconds grabbing whatever gloves are nearest the till. That’s backwards, because the bar doesn’t care about your outfit … Read more
Chalk up, grab the bar, and within thirty seconds of a WOD your palms already know exactly how this is going to end. If you’ve ever finished a session of pull-ups, rope climbs and kettlebell swings looking like you’ve lost a fight with a cheese grater, you already understand why crossfit gloves for women exist … Read more
Here’s the uncomfortable truth nobody tells you at your first CrossFit class: the workout isn’t what wrecks your hands. It’s the bar. Kipping pull-ups, muscle-ups, cleans, snatches, farmer’s carries — every single one of them drags rough, calloused skin across knurled steel, and your palms lose that argument every time. If you’ve ever peeled off … Read more
Your hands have opinions about CrossFit, and after a brutal round of toes-to-bar they will let you know exactly what those opinions are. Ripped palms, angry calluses, a grip that gives out on rep 14 of 15 — it’s the tax nobody warns you about when you first walk into a box. The good news … Read more
Your wrist is doing an unreasonable amount of work for something the width of a teacup handle. Every deadlift, every hour hunched over a keyboard, every jar lid you wrestle open — it all funnels through that small, hinge-like joint. So when it starts aching, throbbing, or crackling like a bowl of cereal, it gets … Read more
Your wrists are doing more work than you think. Every bench press, every heavy curl, every awkward angle on a loaded barbell funnels force straight through two small, stacked rows of carpal bones that were never really designed to be a load-bearing platform. That’s the quiet problem behind a lot of stalled progress in the … Read more
Your palms are peeling, your wrist clicks on the last rep of every deadlift set, and you’ve just watched someone at the squat rack chalk up with gloves that look like they cost more than your trainers. Good news: you don’t need to spend a fortune to sort either problem. Wrist wrap gloves under £20 … Read more
Your hands do more heavy lifting than any other body part in the gym, and yet they’re usually the last thing anyone thinks about kitting out properly. If you’ve ever racked a barbell and caught sight of a fresh split callus, or shaken out a wrist that’s gone wobbly halfway through a set of deadlifts, … Read more