So many people cannot find time for the gym and prefer to exercise at home, using collapsible dumbbells. Of course, such training is unlikely to lead you to a stunning result, and you will never be like the guy on the cover of a fashion magazine, but still, the home training – it is better than the traditional evening beer with friends or watching of TV eating chips, pizza and Coke.
We offer you a list of exercises with dumbbells that you can do at home, with a pair of dumbbells in the arsenal and aspiration to training.
Target muscles and exercises with dumbbells
– Hamstrings
At home, on the hamstrings can be perform the same exercise as for the lower back – torso forward bend with dumbbells against the top of your back.
– Quadriceps
Squats with dumbbells, lunges with dumbbells.
– Calves
Calf Raises Over Step with weights (one foot or both feet at the same time).
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Free weights (dumbbells, barbells) or gym equipment – what to choose?
One of the most contentious issues in bodybuilding: which is better, free weights or gym equipment? The fact is that free weights and exercise machines perform several different tasks. The best option for everyone: look into the matter and correctly applied both in their training.
Free weights
The position of the body when working with free weights is not fixed, that allows feeling the consistency of the work of muscles. Take a few squats with barbell, and you will feel instantly a kind of relationship between body and mind.
Free weights are more effective to increase the power performance. The absence of a fixed position (as at the gym equipment), enables the work of the synergist muscles, which help target muscles to lift the weight. As a result, the body operates as a single interlocking mechanism.
Free weights require stabilization of the body during lifting weights; in other word in work are included muscle-stabilizers. This means that some of the exercises help to work at many small muscles in one set.