I want to get stronger, what weight of dumbbell should I use?

ShAnE

fufu_banterwaite wrote: »

11.34kg........

As posted above 11.34kg is the only weight any bodybuilder worth his salt will use for dumbell curls.

The hard part is finding such dumbells as most places only do 10kg (far too light) or 12kg (too heavy) dumbells which is why so few people look like bodybuilders.

somethingcorporate

berbastrike wrote: »

If you took all the men, took the weight they could manager, and divide by the total number of men, what weight would be the answer?

Jeez, you don't ask much do you?

Let me go and find every single man ask them what weight they could manage and then divide by the number of them.

By the time anyone has bothered to pick up a pencil and a note pad some of the guys would have died, some moved up some weight or some down some weight.

And they say there are no stupid questions....

heartbreak_star

Hey OP, maybe you should try making some 11.34kg dumbbells

I couldn't use them though, I'm a woman. Guess I'll stick with my 14s.

HBS x

heartbreak_star

PasturesNew wrote: »

You can do it with tins of beans .... just lots of times. In fact you'll do less/no damage doing it that way too.

Not strictly true - light weights/high reps gives a totally different result to heavy weights/low reps...

0.5kg is a good place to start if you've never done any weights work before though, to get your technique right.

HBS x

fufu_banterwaite

There was something on the BBC website the other day about dumbbells that weigh minus 1.5kg. I can’t for the life of me find the story though, did anyone else read this?

purpleshoes_2

Everyones gym programme should have variety anyway. There are exercises where I use 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s and 10s.

I bicep curl with a barbell at 22.5kg just now, but it depends on what you want to achieve, whether its muscular strength, endurance, hypertrophy

purpleshoes_2

Oh and see a gym instructor to get a programme put together and regularly reviewed as well, I sometimes see people in the gym flinging weights around and its clear they dont have a clue what they are doing.

purpleshoes_2

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Not strictly true - light weights/high reps gives a totally different result to heavy weights/low reps...

0.5kg is a good place to start if you've never done any weights work before though, to get your technique right.

HBS x

My gym instructor would have bounced a 0.5kg weight off my head if I had suggested starting a programme with that weight

Its someone who knows what proper technique is that people need, I agree that if someone doesnt know what they are doing, putting heavy weights on would be ridiculous

But its support with technique that many people need, as well as a light weight.

If someones technique is poor, it will be poor no matter if they have a 2kg weight in their hand or a 10kg weight in their hand.

heartbreak_star

The scariest people in my gym are the middle-aged/older ladies who are sometimes in leos and leggings...they stand in front of the mirror lifting those 0.5kg weights billions of times with a murderous look in their eyes...

HBS x

System

still no answer !