Weaker with Equipment

This article started off explaining how beginners don’t need too much gym equipment. Bring good, durable gym clothes, active type shoes and maybe some source of music. A water bottle will save time walking back/forth to the fountain, but you should be hydrated before a workout, so this is also a leisure item.

Other articles will have you believe you need gloves, lifting straps, specialized shoes, and weight belts are making a come back again.When you’ve been in the gym for awhile, and start to find what you like, then invest in what you need, but until that time, these are a waste of money. The gloves make heavier weights hard to lift. Lifting straps make a weight easier, so why start with them?! Specialized shoes will come further down the road. Flat shoes, for instance, are suggested for dead lifts, but even after 7 years of lifting, I just lift in my socks (don’t worry, the shoes go right back on after the lift). Weight belts, wrist wraps and knee wraps are crutches, plain and simple. If you are above 85% of your maximum, then sure, throw it on and be safe about it. That being said, if you are new, your body is still adapting to making the movement, don’t give it a crutch. Doing this will make the movement easier, but later on, when you add more weight, your body will show it’s weak point, you will get injured, and all that energy will have been for nothing.

Before I start getting all the hate mail, a lot of this equipment has a time/place, but on a beginner is NOT one of them. If you want a whole body concept, with bare minimal weak points, then try not to use equipment most days. I use a weight belt, but only above 95%. I use chalk, but only on a heavy dead lift. For a beginner, a full body concept needs to be used. Stop feeding the masses comforting lies about what they “need” so they can justify it to their friends. Tell them what’s going to help, and teach them, so we can all be better for it.

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