Maybe you work out at home and have a limited amount of equipment. Perhaps you're traveling and the hotel gym has nothing more than a beat up Universal machine, treadmill, and a rack of DBs. Or maybe you just want to switch things up and try something totally different.
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If exercise machines and barbells are not an option, there's still an exceptional way to get in a solid, upper-body, muscle-building workout. All you're going to need are a few dumbbells. Don't think you can get an effective workout using just a couple of dumbbells? Think again. Thanks to an array of highly effective, targeted moves that can be performed pretty much anywhere, DBs offer a host of exceptional ways to strengthen and build most every muscle throughout your body.
In addition to their convenience of use, some other advantages of training with dumbbells include:
- Increased use of stabilizer muscles.
- Exercises can be done bi- or unilaterally.
- Each side of body is forced to perform equally.
- Better for fixing strength imbalances.
- Easy to perform supersets and dropsets.
With that in mind, we've created the ultimate dumbbell only workout to target your upper body. So grab a few DBs and get to work.
Note: Lifting Tempo is the phrase used to describe how fast you lower, lift, and pause with the weight in each phase of a repetition. It is expressed in seconds and begins with the negative (lowering) portion of an exercise, then the midpoint (stretch) portion, then the positive (lifting) portion, and if there is a forth number used it will be the peak contraction (squeeze) portion. Although some exercises begin with a negative contraction (such as the DB bench press) and some with a positive contraction (such as the DB curl) the way “tempo” is approached remains fixed.
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