• FreeTrainers.com Forums
• Beginners to Exercise
• Dumbell routine only???

Group: Beginners to Exercise

Dumbell routine only???

acp999 Posts: 7 Joined: 2002/06/06	2002/06/06, 09:35 AM Is it possible to do a dumbell workout routine for all major muscle groups and still get a defined chest/shoulders/back? I found a routine online that I wanted to try because I don't have a spotter at home for certain excercises.
ischjli Posts: 408 Joined: 2002/03/13	2002/06/06, 09:41 AM Hmmmm. I guess if you had a variety of dumbells, progressively heavier weights to grow into. You would have some trouble, I think, hitting certain areas, but you could certainly get some definition. Mass, not much. Definition, yes. Presses, flies, curls, rows, laterals. -------------- Ischjli "Seven days without exercise makes one weak."
mikencharleston Posts: 1,585 Joined: 2002/01/09	2002/06/06, 11:24 AM I like to do dumbells only for a couple of weeks to break up a cycle. I can't normally do more than 70-80% of my normal rep weight but you can get a stretch that's beyond compare. It's easier to go heavy if you can have someone hand you the dumbells for the super heavy ones.
Boddhisattvha Posts: 1,226 Joined: 2002/03/07	2002/06/06, 01:27 PM There's nothing worse than staring at the end of the dumbell 2 inches above your face in the middle of a cross face tri extention when your muscle is locked and your spotter is awol... -------------- Practice does NOT make perfect. Perfect practice does.
ischjli Posts: 408 Joined: 2002/03/13	2002/06/06, 01:41 PM Can't you just drop it on the floor? j/k! Your neighbors already don't like you.
Boddhisattvha Posts: 1,226 Joined: 2002/03/07	2002/06/06, 01:43 PM NO!! I mean what I'm talking about is when you are completely drained. It's everything you can just to keep the dumbell from caving in your skull! I hate that! -------------- Practice does NOT make perfect. Perfect practice does.
ischjli Posts: 408 Joined: 2002/03/13	2002/06/06, 01:52 PM I got you. Fortunately I do have a spotter, because that would suck. How about one of those welding masks? It would deflect some of the blow, d/b would still cause some blunt trauma, but more contusion that than open sore....Just a thought.
Boddhisattvha Posts: 1,226 Joined: 2002/03/07	2002/06/06, 03:03 PM LOL! That is too funny. No, luckily that has happened once and I decided it was time to get a spotter. -------------- Practice does NOT make perfect. Perfect practice does.
Philia2 Posts: 4,078 Joined: 2001/10/19	2002/06/07, 02:21 AM Hmmmm I'm sure that you would look rather sexy Cains, working out with one of those huge fencing masks on..... lol AND what about the new Olympian ones with plastic on so we actually can see your eyes?!! Lol put on the matching white socks as well. -------------- - Nina :o) La vie est toujours aussi belle.....