Where to get Dumbells Currently?

mickey15ie · 15-04-2020 12:18PM #1

Morning All,

Apologies if this is in the wrong section, feel free to move to right section.

Does anyone know where it is possible to get dumbells at this time?

Squiggle · 15-04-2020 02:54PM

https://apollofitness.ie/

mickey15ie · 15-04-2020 05:54PM

OmegaGene wrote: »

37.5kg seem to be the lightest in stock sadly

Jaysus that would kill me

The chan chan man · 15-04-2020 07:13PM

OmegaGene wrote: »

37.5kg seem to be the lightest in stock sadly

You’re right, i should probably order a couple of plates to add to them for the lateral raises....

Blacktie. · 16-04-2020 11:13AM

Anyone know where you can get Powerblocks? Seems to be tough to get anywhere in Ireland and ebay are charging about €300 delivery.

Alf Veedersane · 16-04-2020 04:08PM

Blacktie. wrote: »

Anyone know where you can get Powerblocks? Seems to be tough to get anywhere in Ireland and ebay are charging about €300 delivery.

Mate of mine in Canada was being offered over $1000 for his powerblocks and he was saying delivery is crazy alright

un5byh7sqpd2x0 · 16-04-2020 04:11PM

Warren Dumbell is in jail for the last 9 years, and he'll be there for a long time yet.

el Fenomeno · 16-04-2020 04:11PM

Having to make do with the kettlebells I have.

I'm never comfortable doing bicep curls with kettle bells, they're always twisting in my hands.

De Danann · 16-04-2020 05:39PM

el Fenomeno wrote: »

Having to make do with the kettlebells I have.

I'm never comfortable doing bicep curls with kettle bells, they're always twisting in my hands.

I was just going to say to OP - I know they are looking for dumbbells so this might not be relevant

If you have a Mr Price near you, they have recently started stocking kettlebells for reasonable prices. I saw 4kg up to 12kg ones on the shelves.

I know kettlebells can be pretty awkward/uncomfortable but they might do you until the online stores manage to restock. I couldn't find dumbells anywhere so got a range of kettlebells and have been trying to make do.

Although I do agree with el Fenomeno, they twist about a bit

Alf Veedersane · 16-04-2020 05:56PM

el Fenomeno wrote: »

Having to make do with the kettlebells I have.

I'm never comfortable doing bicep curls with kettle bells, they're always twisting in my hands.

Do curls with a resistance band.

Minime2.5 · 17-04-2020 01:41PM

OmegaGene wrote: »

https://www.lidl.ie/en/p/home-fitness/10-5kg-dumbbell-set/p40607

https://www.lidl.ie/en/c/home-fitness/c1135/w2

10.kg is way too light. Id get a better workout going for a piss

EDit · 17-04-2020 01:46PM

McSports.ie still have some in stock. Bear in mind their delivery is very slow atm. I ordered something recently and it took 2-3 weeks to arrive (and it was in stock)

dastardly00 · 17-04-2020 01:54PM

Minime2.5 wrote: »

10.kg is way too light. Id get a better workout going for a piss

There are plenty of movements/exercises you could do in which 10 kg is plenty...

Minime2.5 · 17-04-2020 04:45PM

I could get a good workout with 2x20kg dumbbells for sure but 10.5kg is def too light

Cloudio9 · 17-04-2020 04:49PM

Minime2.5 wrote: »

I could get a good workout with 2x20kg dumbbells for sure but 10.5kg is def too light

Buy two of the Lidl sets and combine the plates and you'll have a 19kg set of dumb bells

marklazarcovic · 17-04-2020 04:52PM

Minime2.5 wrote: »

I could get a good workout with 2x20kg dumbbells for sure but 10.5kg is def too light

Buy 4 sets and add to two, these will fly out the doors

Minime2.5 · 17-04-2020 04:58PM

Cloudio9 wrote: »

Buy two of the Lidl sets and combine the plates and you'll have a 19kg set of dumb bells

I was thinking of doing this but will the plates all fit on 1 dumbbell, is there enough space?

dastardly00 · 17-04-2020 06:09PM

Minime2.5 wrote: »

I could get a good workout with 2x20kg dumbbells for sure but 10.5kg is def too light

Put the 10.5 kg in a backpack and then do weighted pull-ups, push-ups, and dips, and let us know if it's too light for a workout

marklazarcovic · 17-04-2020 06:56PM

Minime2.5 wrote: »

I was thinking of doing this but will the plates all fit on 1 dumbbell, is there enough space?

Maybe not all but a decent weight

The chan chan man · 17-04-2020 06:59PM

If you’re desperately stuck...

Cut a 2L bottle in half, pour in some sand/cement/water and leave a stick vertically sticking out of it. Turn upsidedown the next day, repeat and voila - dumbell!

dave 27 · 24-04-2020 10:35AM

After many days of searching i managed to purchase a 20kg dumbbell set from elverys, they were completely sold out until yesterday.

not a bad price either at 89.95

https://www.elverys.ie/elverys/en/Elverys/Fitness/Home-Gym-Equipment/Weights/York-Cast-Iron-Dumbbell-Set--20kg,-Black/p/000000000001110662?gclid=CjwKCAjwnIr1BRAWEiwA6GpwNaqBRfer5GOJk7f09MO5w-1NUNi1IUTuw1oIB5ghCGUUE4FGQkct4RoC57gQAvD_BwE

marklazarcovic · 24-04-2020 11:28AM

dave 27 wrote: »

After many days of searching i managed to purchase a 20kg dumbbell set from elverys, they were completely sold out until yesterday.

not a bad price either at 89.95

https://www.elverys.ie/elverys/en/Elverys/Fitness/Home-Gym-Equipment/Weights/York-Cast-Iron-Dumbbell-Set--20kg,-Black/p/000000000001110662?gclid=CjwKCAjwnIr1BRAWEiwA6GpwNaqBRfer5GOJk7f09MO5w-1NUNi1IUTuw1oIB5ghCGUUE4FGQkct4RoC57gQAvD_BwE

Its twice the price of the Aldi set no? 20kg divided into two dumbells?

Mellor · 24-04-2020 11:55AM

marklazarcovic wrote: »

Its twice the price of the Aldi set no? 20kg divided into two dumbells?

Yup. 12 plates, 20kg, 80e
Aldi/Lidl is 6 plates, 10kg, 20e

Although its a much better dumbell. Spinlock vrs a dodgy cliplock.
Neither option is great. Biggest plate is 2-2.5kg. That means lots of dicking about with time 1kg and .5kg plates.

I'd probably be more incline to look for two decent kettlebells

rubadub · 24-04-2020 12:14PM

I wonder if elverys genuinely were selling that set for €110, its illegal to put fake discounts up like that if they were not on sale for a specified time.

People should ask friends & relatives if they have any old weights if they are really stuck. I know loads of people who got weights when they were younger. They might be crappy vinyl ones but better than nothing. On amazon & ebay people are charging more for poxy bags you fill with water and put on dummbells, more than the price those elverys cast iron ones would usually be on amazon.

There may be stuff around the house too, I can do pullups on my stairs hanging onto the landing. I can put a bar/pole across the hole in my attick and hang gymnastic rings off it, you could get 2 towels and do pullups.

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Minime2.5 · 24-04-2020 01:17PM

Mellor wrote: »

Yup. 12 plates, 20kg, 80e
Aldi/Lidl is 6 plates, 10kg, 20e

Although its a much better dumbell. Spinlock vrs a dodgy cliplock.
Neither option is great. Biggest plate is 2-2.5kg. That means lots of dicking about with time 1kg and .5kg plates.

I'd probably be more incline to look for two decent kettlebells

Instead of changing the weights used per exercise /body part you could vary the reps per set and time rested in between sets. For example 20kg maybe too light for chest and back exercises will in that case do 12-15 reps and just rest 45-60 seconds between sets. They may be a bit heavy for bicep work will then do just 4-6 rep sets and rest 2-3 minutes in between sets

Mellor · 24-04-2020 02:50PM

Minime2.5 wrote: »

Instead of changing the weights used per exercise /body part you could vary the reps per set and time rested in between sets. For example 20kg maybe too light for chest and back exercises will in that case do 12-15 reps and just rest 45-60 seconds between sets. They may be a bit heavy for bicep work will then do just 4-6 rep sets and rest 2-3 minutes in between sets

For chest it's barely a warm up, you'd be doing 100 reps to feel it.
Even curls would need 20+ reps. Not sure why you think 4-6

dastardly00 · 24-04-2020 03:00PM

Mellor wrote: »

For chest it's barely a warm up, you'd be doing 100 reps to feel it.
Even curls would need 20+ reps. Not sure why you think 4-6

You could do 5 sets of 100 reps at 20 kg (2x10 kg DB) though

Minime2.5 · 24-04-2020 04:23PM

Mellor wrote: »

For chest it's barely a warm up, you'd be doing 100 reps to feel it.
Even curls would need 20+ reps. Not sure why you think 4-6

20kg each hand a warm up.really?

rubadub · 24-04-2020 04:35PM

Minime2.5 wrote: »

20kg each hand a warm up.really?

Not sure if you are talking about the lidl ones, but if you have 2 sets up have 2 sets of these

2 x 1Kg

2 x 1.25Kg

2 x 2Kg

1 x 1.95Kg (the dumbbell)

So its 8.5kg of plates with each. But you will not fit all the plates from both sets on 1 dumbbell.

Dunno if you could buy a single extra long 1" dumbbell handle with spinlocks.

robinbird · 25-04-2020 09:29PM

dave 27 wrote: »

After many days of searching i managed to purchase a 20kg dumbbell set from elverys, they were completely sold out until yesterday.

not a bad price either at 89.95

https://www.elverys.ie/elverys/en/Elverys/Fitness/Home-Gym-Equipment/Weights/York-Cast-Iron-Dumbbell-Set--20kg,-Black/p/000000000001110662?gclid=CjwKCAjwnIr1BRAWEiwA6GpwNaqBRfer5GOJk7f09MO5w-1NUNi1IUTuw1oIB5ghCGUUE4FGQkct4RoC57gQAvD_BwE

OmegaGene wrote: »

You know it’s 20kg combined weight right ?

Think that there is a lot of deliberate misleading advertising which is catching people out. The Elvery ones are advertised as

YORK CAST IRON DUMBBELL SET -20KG, BLACK
€89.95 reduced from €110

Now I would pay €90 for two 20kg dumbbells as I could get a decent workout.
However on closer examination it seems that each dumbbell only has 8.5kg of weights. Not enough for most men to do much at all and over four times the price of the Lidl ones for less weight.

robinbird · 25-04-2020 09:37PM

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

So the handles are 1.5kg each?

Yes. So if you add the weight of the handle to the weights you have a 10kg dumbbell. I had actually nearly ordered these a few days ago on the mistaken belief that they were 20kg dumbbells. I am sure lots of people making the same mistake and not realising it until they are delivered.

Where to get Dumbells Currently?

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