Mittens are the defacto standard that works. Wool is the inner liner material I like. Wool wicks sweat away from your body into the air while insulatin your body heat similar to the wicking polyester materials like underarmor without the foul polyester stink.
If I can smell it I bet the game can.
Wool has a natural antibiotic that kills the stink of sweat. I have a sweater that I have jogged in multiple times and sweated up and I still have not washed it. It does not smell at all and has kept me warm even when profusely sweating.
Wool while not 100% waterproof is very water resistant and still insulates your body heat when moist, unlike cotton which works really good until it gets wet (the nodules in cotton colapse when wet) then you are totally screwed and maybe dead if the weather is cold enough since cotton draws heat away from your body when too moist.
Those people in the old days who wore scratchy wool knew what they were doing. I would imagine a lot of people who work outdoors in the freezing cold use wool liners. Now we have merino wool which is not as scratchy as standard wool but more costly.
I ride my bike to work in temperatures as low a 7 deg F but usually in the 20 deg F range and I use THIN wool gloves as liners so my fingers don't separate too much with knit wool mittens over them. I have had no problems with this combo at all. If it were colder I would probably choose mitten liners as well (100% mittens) and if too wet I might want a water proof shell like treated leather over those mittens.
I too like the idea of having the mitten strings because you really don't want to lose them on a cold day. That being said as far as I know mittens work best.
If it's really cold and you plan on gripping rocks to pull your body weight up all day or perhaps doing pushups on your finger tips every 3 to 5 minutes then maybe high quality gloves are the answer otherwise I would choose mittens.
A little word about underarmor long john under pants (tights or whatever) they work great but allow your nuts (testes) to freeze when windy so I use my patented "Nut Guard" technology which consists of a placing a folded t-shirt down your pants in front of your crotch for wind protection which works quite well. I think underarmor should address that quirk with a little extra padding in that region.
If I can smell it I bet the game can.
Wool has a natural antibiotic that kills the stink of sweat. I have a sweater that I have jogged in multiple times and sweated up and I still have not washed it. It does not smell at all and has kept me warm even when profusely sweating.
Wool while not 100% waterproof is very water resistant and still insulates your body heat when moist, unlike cotton which works really good until it gets wet (the nodules in cotton colapse when wet) then you are totally screwed and maybe dead if the weather is cold enough since cotton draws heat away from your body when too moist.
Those people in the old days who wore scratchy wool knew what they were doing. I would imagine a lot of people who work outdoors in the freezing cold use wool liners. Now we have merino wool which is not as scratchy as standard wool but more costly.
I ride my bike to work in temperatures as low a 7 deg F but usually in the 20 deg F range and I use THIN wool gloves as liners so my fingers don't separate too much with knit wool mittens over them. I have had no problems with this combo at all. If it were colder I would probably choose mitten liners as well (100% mittens) and if too wet I might want a water proof shell like treated leather over those mittens.
I too like the idea of having the mitten strings because you really don't want to lose them on a cold day. That being said as far as I know mittens work best.
If it's really cold and you plan on gripping rocks to pull your body weight up all day or perhaps doing pushups on your finger tips every 3 to 5 minutes then maybe high quality gloves are the answer otherwise I would choose mittens.
A little word about underarmor long john under pants (tights or whatever) they work great but allow your nuts (testes) to freeze when windy so I use my patented "Nut Guard" technology which consists of a placing a folded t-shirt down your pants in front of your crotch for wind protection which works quite well. I think underarmor should address that quirk with a little extra padding in that region.
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