Exercises that involve free weights will give you a much better workout. The reason for this is simple. Free weights force you to keep the weights balanced. This makes all the difference. When you are holding a dumbbell, both of your arms' muscles have to constantly correct for all the movement caused by gravity pulling the dumbbells down. No machine can ever hold a candle to any exercise that involves dumbbells. Whenever I go to the gym, I will skip most machines and go right to the free weight section instead.
But why would you want to be a gym member if you can also have dumbbells at home. I don't see the point of being a member of a gym and paying a …show more content…
But they will cost you at least twenty five bucks. But weights at this price point will not give you the best handling. Often they will rattle a bit as you wield them. That's just what you get for spending as little as possible. If you want some quality, you'll have to spend at least fifty dollars. This is about as cheap as it gets for a high quality, durable set of iron cast, adjustable dumbbells. Mind the word 'adjustable', because that one is really important here. Dumbbells are useless if you can not adjust the weight of them by adding weight plates. When performing exercises, your strength is constantly increasing. You'll want to be able to add on weight plates to increase the