Buying Dumbells Query

will56

Can I get some opinions on the following please.

Have a friend buying a bench and dumbells to do some strength training.
He was going to buy dumbell bars and weights. I suggested he should get olympic handles and plates instead of the bars with spinlock collars.

Anyone have any preference between the 2 ? I suggested the olympic ones as the bit for loading the weights looks longer, could be wrong.

2nd question: What would be the biggest plate you'd put on these to use them comfortably, I was thinking 10kg ?
Main exercises will be rows, pressing, goblet squats etc.

Mickk

I reckon it depends on how much your going to use them and what you can afford. Dumbbell bars are long and awkward, 10's are as big as I'd go but 5's are better. Basically if you will use them often and can afford individual dumbbells get them, I've seen a few people buy dumbbell bars only to come back a month later and buy individual dumbbells...

will56

I would have though being able to add individual plates would have made them better than getting individual dumbells ?
I'd say they'll be used fairly often.

Any idea how many 5s will go on one side of a dumbell ?

Mickk

Cheaper and more adaptable yes but less comfortable to use, think about range of motion, when you have long bars sticking out of the end of a dumbbell you dont get a full range, also when you sit back to do a chest press, you usually sit up with the dumbbells on your lap, with long bars sticking out the end you wont be able to do that either.

Ironmaster are the best adjustable dumbbells but you are getting into full dumbbell set prices...

rubadub

Are there any sort of hybrid dumbbells out there? I was thinking you should be able to get say a 30kg fixed weight dumbbell, but the 2 sides would be drilled out and have a female thread in them. Now you would have optional short bars that go in the sides, these would look like weight plates with a male threaded bar sticking out just one side -and these could hold more weights too. This also means you do not have extra bar hanging out the ends, as it would disappear into the dumbbell.

marathonic

rubadub wrote: »

Are there any sort of hybrid dumbbells out there? I was thinking you should be able to get say a 30kg fixed weight dumbbell, but the 2 sides would be drilled out and have a female thread in them. Now you would have optional short bars that go in the sides, these would look like weight plates with a male threaded bar sticking out just one side -and these could hold more weights too. This also means you do not have extra bar hanging out the ends, as it would disappear into the dumbbell.

Time for you to get your ass to the dragons den!!!

Mickk

rubadub wrote: »

Are there any sort of hybrid dumbbells out there? I was thinking you should be able to get say a 30kg fixed weight dumbbell, but the 2 sides would be drilled out and have a female thread in them. Now you would have optional short bars that go in the sides, these would look like weight plates with a male threaded bar sticking out just one side -and these could hold more weights too. This also means you do not have extra bar hanging out the ends, as it would disappear into the dumbbell.

Great idea but that's pretty much the way the dumbbells above work.