Recommend a good dumbell weight set

[Jpark]

Originally posted by: Arkitech

Originally posted by: jpark932
barbells are just one set amount of weight, dumbells you can always add weight later. if you go with dumbells make sure you get good locks.

All of the barbells I've seen the weights can be changed just like dumbells.

ahhh too early in the morning for that post. go with dumbells

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Arkitech

Originally posted by: ThaPerculator

I forgot to mention you're also much safer working alone with dumbells than with barbells.

Most. Ridiculous. Comment. Ever.

If you know what you're doing, have proper equipment, and take proper precautions they are equally the same. The idiots that die from trying to max and having it choke them to death are just that, idiots. These are the retards you see in the gym with wayyyyy too mugh weight on who need to do "two-man-rows" while benching. They are also the same idiots who drop the dumbells because they are too heavy to set them down.

I had a guy in my weights class back in high school workout with dumbells, and when he clanked them together the weld failed and half of a 50lb dumbell fell on his face breaking his orbital socket and giving him a massive concussion. It was pretty nasty.

Moral of the story? If you are lifting by yourself, verify the integrity of your equipment, schedule your workout to be within reasonable weight guidelines, and remember to not be an idiot.

oh man, I thought I had bad luck.

That's exactly what that was, bad luck. Occasionally sh!t happens but for the most part that is something that rarely ever happens. The odds of it happening are probably less than the bench collapsing due to metal fatigue

 

[Spamela]

weight is weight.

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before & been satisfied with the quality & price.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

Originally posted by: Arkitech

Originally posted by: M0oG0oGaiPan
How much room do you have? If you're really tight on space you could get a set of power blocks.

What are powerblocks, I've never heard of those?

http://www.megafitness.com/pow...ustable-dumbbells.html

They feel pretty good. You save space by having less extraneous plates hanging around. Mucho dinero though. :

Oh yeah, here's a site with some exercises you can do. They usually include an animated gif so you can see how the exercise is done. http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html