Can you train with only dumbbells, or is it strictly necessary to add the bars and other gym equipment to your routine?
As you have seen, there are many different ways to add variety to your workouts.
But whatever your goal, the idea is to remain interested in physical development and at the same time make it accessible to everyone who wants it.
And since I am aware that there are many people who do not want, or can, go to a gym; either for personal, economic, time, or even because the gym is crowded with people during the hours it is available. So, I have prepared this article that can be of great help to you.
If this is your case, dumbbells could be a great training option, remember that the goal is that you do not run out of training your body and in this sense training with dumbbells is effective!
In addition to that they can help you economically, because in fact they are not expensive at all (unless you want to build a weight rack). There are those who define dumbbells as a better training method compared to other gym equipment.
Anyway, let’s take a look at some of the benefits that we will have from training only with dumbbells.
Benefits of training with mancuernas
Using dumbles serves to focus on a comprehensive training
This we hear frequently and it is a great truth!
When training with dumbbells (or bars) much more stabilizing muscles are used than with workouts where we only use gym equipment.
This is very beneficial even for the simplest functions, for example in many exercises have to involve the body core to achieve keep in balance.
Balance is really important in training and in this sense, it beats you by training with gym equipment.
Training only with dumps focus on functional training
Dumbbell exercises are more functional, and since that seems to be a buzzword in the fitness industry right now, do we sum up the word “functional”?
In a very summarized version, a functional training would be something like: a type of fitness method that could train our body for daily activities.
Functional exercises, rather than isolating a few muscles in each exercise, generally apply multiple muscles in the process. And this applies from the CrossFit, through the TABATA, to the functional training itself.
Training with handles allows us to balance the strength imbalances
Have you ever noticed that your right leg seems to be stronger than your left? Or maybe the other way around? This is more common than you might think.
When we chant with a bar or equipment, causing the upper or lower part while two members, we cannot prevent the dominant member handle the exercise, making time an imbalance of strength between the two is generated.
In most dumbbell exercises, the opposite side cannot compensate for the other as with a machine or barbell exercise.
So, a good dumbbell exercise routine will strengthen both sides of your body equally, thus avoiding any imbalance!
The cufflinks may make us a little more burning calories
As I said before, training only with dumbbells we can request more stabilizing muscles and the more muscles are requested, as the greater the number of calories burned.
And even doing exercise alternately, for example by raising the right arm first, moving it down and then raising the left and back down this before returning up the right (repeated as many times as necessary).
We achieve more time of effort compared to doing it with a barbell.
Okay, we know that there are not many extra calories that we will be able to burn in this way; but, while they are not a big difference in the global, each extra point helps.
Conclusion: on training only with dumbles
When you see that you improve your body core, the functionality of your body, and balance the bilateral force, you will find that you are stronger in every way. Money or time are no longer an excuse.
And if you’ve been training classically for a long time, go ahead and try training only with dumbbells for one period of your macrocycle: Ditch the gym equipment and go straight to the free weights! (Then tell us how it went).