Best alternative to gloves!!!!
Several years ago, I was talking with my personal trainer at the gym about how my hands were getting calloused from all of the free weight work I had been doing.  He had suggested gloves but, I explained, I had tried gloved in the past and didn't like them.  Most gloves add too much bulk to whatever I'm gripping and actually make it so that my forearms get fatigued.  I also don't like the fact that gloves start to develop an odor quickly since they get sweaty from my workout and from living in my gym bag.  Unless I wanted to have several pairs of gloves that got switched in and out of rotation, I would have to wash my sole pair of gloves nearly nightly.<br /><br />The guy using the weight bench next to me overheard this conversation and offered to let me try his Lynx.  I LOVED THEM!  They add almost no bulk at all to barbells and dumbbells, they create an amazing amount of grip and they can be washed in just a few seconds in the sink at the gym.<br /><br />The only problem I have with them (and why I'm on Amazon today... to order another pair) is that you have to be careful about setting them down somewhere and forgetting them.  My Lynx were in as good a shape after five years of using them as they were when I bought them.  Had I not lost them last week at the gym, they probably would have lasted another five years or more.
Rating: 5 stars