In my last post I spoke about using your own body weight to craft an intensive workout routine for yourself without the necessity of a gym membership. While I have nothing against fitness clubs, I do want to say that I believe that most people don’t need them. The question does come up however, if a person has graduated from using their own body weight for resistance training, what is their next move up the chain of physical fitness. The answer is a simple one. You will need an inexpensive set of high quality dumbbells.
Contrary to popular belief, you do not need the overpriced and highly sophisticated dumbbells either. In fact you should be able to find exactly what you need in your local pawn shop or at a thrift store. Get a pair from the 1980s before all the new wiz bang models came out that fill with water and adjust to your shoe size. What worked almost 30 years ago I can assure you will still work today. If you do a simple search of YouTube I am sure you’ll find a number of old work out videos from the 1970s and 1980s that will give you classic instruction on what to do next. And if you don’t have an internet connection but your neighbor has wireless then you get that for free as well.