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Originally Posted by Kane
I used gloves for about a year and found it actually helped develop my grip strength. The gloves make your hands "bigger" because of padding and what not, and I find you actually have to grip a little harder to close your hands enough to secure the bar IMO.
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Excellent point, Kane.
Another trick is to use the largest bar possible. Something you can also do which is really great for developing grip strength is to wrap a a towel around a pull-up bar, making it as thick as you prefer. You can then do your pull-ups. This, of course, could limit your pull-up sets so I prefer to just hang from the towel wrapped bar as long as possible, have a short rest and do it again for 3 to 4 sets. Add whatever variations you care to invent.