Forget about diamonds being a girl’s best friend. For a fraction of the price, you can go out and treat yourself to a set of adjustable dumbbells. Bring those babies home, roll out your yoga mat, and start your new life of feeling good, gaining confidence, and enjoying the person you see smiling back at you in the mirror.
Contrary to popular thought, one does not have to join a gym ($) or buy expensive equipment to get and stay fit. Home workouts with dumbbells can radically and positively change your appearance and health.
A good dumbbell training program provides many of the same benefits as any other resistance exercise regimen. Plus, it adds a few of its own:
As opposed to machines and barbells, dumbbells require your synergistic (helping) and stabilizer muscles to work harder because they keep the dumbbells under control in all directions of a performed exercise.
There are literally hundreds of exercises utilizing dumbbells.
Adjustable dumbbells are extremely inexpensive compared to machines and gym memberships.
Dumbbells take up very little space, even when being used.
The entire body is efficiently worked with dumbbells.
Do you want a convenient, low-cost way to propel your metabolism into fat-burning over-drive? Then, try the following dumbbell training circuit, performing the exercises in the order as written. This is a full-body workout in one session.
Do 10 repetitions of each: crunches, bent-over rows, chest press (lying supine on the floor), biceps curl, over-head press, triceps kick-back, stiff-leg dead lifts, goblet squats, and calf raises.
Do the exercises back to back with no rest between them. When you complete one circuit, recover for two to four minutes, and repeat. After three to five circuits, you will have become acquainted with your new best friends, and be on your way to a healthier, better you. Who needs a diamond when you shine like one yourself?
Teri
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