Adjustable Dumbells

Should you already be into weight machines and feeling the pinch of space and finance for that extra piece of equipment that you have been longing to have, here is the best opportunity for you. Just go for adjustable dumbbells. Here are five good reasons to influence your decision.

1. Range of exercises

One big advantage of dumbbells as compared to traditional weight machines is that it allows you to execute a series of different exercises without your having to change the machine. For instance you could easily change over from performing bicep curls to triceps by merely changing your body position. In effect it means that rather than having four different machines, you could have a total body workout with only a single set of dumbbells.

2. Price

Now let’s look into the economics of it all. You would in all probability be required to spend a couple of thousands for buying a complete set of equipment to work on different muscle groups. Wouldn’t you be relieved to learn that a set of adjustable dumbbells would cost you only two to three hundred dollars? Think of the savings you make for performing a range of exercises!

Even if you compare the amount with the cost of membership for a local gym, the scales are tilted in favor of adjustable dumbbells.

3. Convenience of adjustability

Now, that’s the most outstanding technical feature of theses dumbbells. Merely a swift change of pin enables you to shift from one dumbbell weight to another. That almost makes it work like a pin loaded weight machine but with dumbbells. This feature that enables you to bring a change of weight with a pin, doesn’t call for a big room full of dumbbell, thus saving floor area apart from the capital cost.

4. Space

Unlike the conventional dumbbells that would normally require a dumbbell rack and a lot of storage space, adjustable dumbbells just need a stand that may easily be tucked away in a corner of any room. That allows you to have more of space for bigger fitness equipment of the kind of a treadmill or ellipticals.

Now you need not have second thoughts on your having a home gym due to constraints of space.

5. Maximum Muscular development

Dumbbells, or free weights as they are often called, offer maximum muscular development. As adjustable dumbbells are not as stable as the machine weight, one is required to use more muscles to help support the weight and to exercise in proper form. Anybody who has performed with a traditional bench press as well with a dumbbell press would testify that working with the dumbbells is certainly harder.

You may be able to bench press 200lb x 8 reps with a traditional bar, but you’ll find it difficult to bench press 160lb (80lb per hand) x 8 reps with dumbbells simply because you are required to work harder to keep the weight stabilized.

Aren’t you prompted to rush your decision for buying that additional piece of equipment that you have been postponing since long?

Workouts with dumbbells, despite being very convenient, are highly effective and efficient. Over the generations almost every equipment and item has undergone a lot of changes in design to make it more suitable for present day needs and dumbbells are no exception. Most of the changes have been brought around because of constraints of space and time. Dumbbells are no exception to the rule. The new set of dumbbells allows you to adjust weight as per your requirements. You just need to pick up the weight from the rack and go ahead with your workout. The system offers ease of operation and other benefits too, but it may not be right to discard the old dumbbells for good.
Here are the pros and cons of the new system.

Adjustable Dumbbells – PROS -

They are space saving. You don’t need a very large area for the rack system. At the end of your workout, you won’t have weights lying around the place, which saves you from the strain of tiding up the place.

You save a lot of time. Generally you are required to change plates of home dumbbells to suit every new exercise you choose to do. The new dumbbells facilitate a very quick changeover without much of an effort.

They are better designed and well made and not flimsy like cheap commercial exercise equipment.

Adjustable Dumbbells – CONS -

You need to spend more on these. The rationale being that getting a complete rack of dumbbells in one go may work out cheaper.

They are fairly expensive. The rational is of course that you are getting a whole rack of dumbbells all at once and it may actually work out cheaper. Buying one dumbbell at a time might be so, but getting two dumbbells handles with a bunch of loose plate weights that suit your requirements, would probably be much cheaper. Primarily you pay for convenience.

Weight is a restriction here as some of these dumbbells systems provide only 45 to 50 pounds. Now, that may be very limited for most of the athletes or even for enthusiasts of muscle building.
It may be a good option for training of the youth or female enthusiasts as well for the elderly people. But everybody else would soon reach a level that calls for heavier weights. There are systems with heavier weights but obviously they are more expensive.

They aren’t like old school dumbbells that have withstood the test of times to have successfully provided the desired results for generations and proven to be efficient. The new generation of dumbbells may ultimately prove to be effective. Yet, those nostalgic about old school of training may not find these to be so exciting. And we are aware that successful training definitely calls for a thrill and the motivation associated with that.