Dumbells Help

[jdm1873]

I am looking for help in general regarding my training.

I was going to Muay Thai twice a week but felt that my overall fitness needed improvement before going back. I have just joined a new gym and they have got decent machines and will be working out with them.

They only have dumbells no bars and was just wondering if anyone can recommend a good workout with the dumbells?

Do you recommend bigger weights lower reps for building up my upperbody?

I have a good diet (that slipped during christmas and new year) and I will be back using whey protein shakes.

Many thanks

[greg]

You can work every muscle in the body with DBs alone

Dependant on how big they go too.

All deltoids can be hit with front/side/rear raises
chest can be hit at all angles with DB pressing/flyes bench set decline/flat/incline
legs can be hit with DB squats/lunges! calfs can be hit with standing raises.
Arms can be hit with hammers/preachers/curls at wrist/tri extensions
Back can be hit with Deads/DB rowing/ pullups can be done anywhere!

What i would say is IMO is find a better gym!!! but as above you can utilise DBs quite easily seach youtube for example DB pressing or DB flyes etc etc

[Krista]

I only have dumbells to, I generally do supersets routines from the body sculpting bible, and im seeing great progress, will be cool to see how you get on using just dumbells to :0)

[greg]

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[jdm1873]

Many thanks for your posts. I will have a look at stronglifts.com and check the site out.

Thanks again.