Dumbbells

“And it, it, that was responsible for adding a good 20 pounds to my overhead press. The stabilization that I got from doing overhead carries, like one-arm dumbbell or kettlebell or two-arm. When I went to my overhead presses, suddenly I was so much stronger. Yeah. And it was because my shoulders were so much more stable.”

“especially with the pec tear and the stuff I've dealt with in my shoulders. Is I will actually go a really slow tempo and then I'll do an isometric hold with the dumbbells at the bottom. And that's like my first set or two is like that. And man, after doing that, I feel so warmed up in the shoulders, chest, everything like that.”

“And there's so much less to focus on. Like if I'm doing an overhead press with a dumbbell, which is a great exercise, and I have shoulder pain, you know, I got to worry about balancing the dumbbell. I got to worry about when I'm pushing against the machine, especially if the machine that fits my body well, I just got to worry about pushing it up.”

“So you'll be doing a little bit most days, but you're only doing two exercises. So I have a treadmill at home and I have weights up to, I have two 35-pound dumbbells, a pull-up bar, but I go to the gym. Okay. So you could do MAPS 15. You could do some of it at home, some of it at the gym.”

“occasion, but generally it's just Prime Pro. So a home gym? You guys have a home gym? We have dumbbells and then I ordered a doormount pull-up bar for Prime deals, just that way I can use more of you guys' programs. So explain what does consistency versus inconsistency look like?”

“you're approximating the landmine. So for you personally, with your shoulder history, are you using a barbell or are you using dumbbells? I'll use barbells infrequently, maybe 20% of the time. And again, sometimes because I want to retest my abilities to see how close I've come to being able to use them paint-free again.”

“I will almost always opt for dumbbells. One of my favorite things to do with dumbbells is to simply do one at a time. So you mentioned the asymmetrical. I love being able to do one dumbbell at a time. I can handle more weight that way. So that's back to that idea of increasing the stimulus, increasing the intensity.”

“Okay, but you would prefer a bar to dumbbells. Dumbbells are okay. I don't mind dumbbells at all. I use dumbbells a lot myself, but people sometimes can feel it to be a little awkward because they can't ever time the dumbbells right in terms of extension.”

“the arm across the chest. So when it comes to the pressing movements, you have options of obviously barbells, dumbbells, machines. They're all going to do pretty much the same thing in terms of the movement itself, but how it feels can be drastically different.”

“rest of your chest. But I think dumbbells give people with any issues the most opportunity to train pain-free. And if you still have pain when you train with dumbbells, slow it down. The slowing of the dumbbell, especially during the eccentric portion of it, is going to give your joint the opportunity to feel safe and overcome any instability that might be causing some of your pain.”

“I do a two-day split. I work out from home. It's all dumbbell-based, body weight-based, bench. I have a bench. I have a band. So I introduce the bands, but I sometimes get inflammation and joints and then take a break that way.”

“50, 60 pound dumbbells. I don't want to be, you know, inactive. I am, I get my 10,000 steps in a day. I summer months, I cycled very casually to keep active.”

“Actually, we'll see rapid progress of the 90-year-old if they just start strength training. But if you've been doing it a while, you're using 50, 60 pound dumbbells, the name of the game now is to maintain. So as we start to hit our mid 60s, get into 70, even being fit and consistent, there's still going to be somewhat of a decline.”

“And this is where we can get into things like personal preference, equipment availability. You have kettlebells or dumbbells, or you only have bands, or you have none of that. These are all smaller details, but that's an important component. The last one I really want to get into is picking the appropriate target and you run some testing and figure out where your biggest limitations are.”

“or I only have a kettlebell or a dumbbell. How am I going to stimulate hypertrophy? Your only option is really doing more reps. Well, eventually that train runs pretty shallow. Okay, here's the thing you can play with.”

“So, dumbbell, great. Kettlebell, fine. Barbell, awesome. Band, doesn't matter. Body weight, none of these things are as important because all you're trying to do is create a certain insult in the tissue, and the implement is just whichever one you feel best doing it.”

“squat hold. So you're going to hold a weight in front of your chest, whether a kettlebell is great here, a dumbbell is fine here. And you want to hold about half of your body weight, go all the way to the bottom position and try to hold that for about 45 seconds.”

“I don't mean anything crazy. And one of the best things you could do is it's called a farmer's carry. Just get a couple dumbbells and just walk. You can walk around your property. You can walk around your street. I do like a couple hundred yards and then a couple hundred yards back. I go up a hill and then I go down a hill. The whole thing takes me like 15 minutes.”

“And in our mind, we think, oh, you have to go to failure in order to get stronger. And again, we're talking about very specific things, getting stronger, using kettlebells, especially, but you could do dumbbells and other things as well. If you're now, if you're doing something else, like if you're trying to get maximum amount of bench press, if you're”

“So the fastest way to build mitochondria is boosting your muscle mass. Yeah. So weight training. So, you know,. Get some bands at home or some dumbbells. Do that sort of thing. And from a dietary standpoint, meat and vegetables and low-glycemic fruit.”

“So now I'm starting to train in multiple dimensions and planes at one time. So a lunge in this direction, suitcase carry offset, only one dumbbell, not on the other side, obviously. You're going to get that desire for the body to fall towards the side of the offset weight.”

“whenever you have the opportunity to stagger your stance a bit not fully lunging but offset your stance a bit you'll do that and then you also talked about even on a on a dumbbell curl leaning a bit toward the side that you're curling up assuming you're doing alternating dumbbell curls”

“are taking too much of the load at the, near the tips of the fingers. I forced myself to put the bar or the, or the dumbbell in the meat in my hand. Yeah. Now we take a more traditional grip, right? You're not like relying on that, those distal tendons to have to do all that work and manage that load.”

“step-ups. But if you want to challenge yourself even more, look into a pair of dumbbells. They can further expand strength and conditioning options while still taking up minimal space.”