Choose dumbbells with appropriate weight according to your own situation. In addition, when doing exercise, we should also do what we can, and gradually increase the amount through our own one-stage exercise. If there are multiple dumbbells, you can also achieve the effect of increasing gradually. Let's take a look at several exercise methods of dumbbell fitness.

1. What is a dumbbell?

Dumbbell is a simple instrument to strengthen muscle strength training.

Its main material is cast iron, and some are covered with rubber.

Used for muscle strength training and muscle compound action training. Patients with low muscle strength due to sports paralysis, pain, long-term inactivity, etc. Holding dumbbells, you can use the weight of dumbbells to actively exercise against resistance and train muscle strength.

Dumbbells can train a single muscle; If you increase your weight, you need the coordination of multiple muscles, and it can also be used as a kind of muscle compound action training. Exercising upper limb muscles is dumbbell's specialty, but dumbbell can also exercise waist and abdomen muscles. For example, lifting dumbbells with both hands behind the neck during sit-ups can increase the load of abdominal exercise and improve the exercise effect; When doing back flexion and extension exercises, dumbbells can also be used to increase the load of back muscles and stimulate the growth of back muscles; Holding dumbbells can exercise internal and external oblique muscles; Holding dumbbells, arms straight forward and lifting sideways can exercise shoulder and chest muscles; In addition, dumbbells can also exercise lower limb muscles, such as squatting with one foot and jumping with both feet.

Second, the benefits of dumbbell fitness

1. Long-term practice of dumbbells can modify muscle lines and increase muscle endurance. Regular practice of heavy dumbbells can make muscles strong, strengthen muscle fibers and increase muscle strength;

2. You can exercise upper limb muscles and waist and abdomen muscles. For example, when doing sit-ups, putting dumbbells behind your neck with both hands can increase the load of abdominal exercises; Lifting dumbbells to do lateral bending or turning exercises can exercise the internal and external oblique muscles of the abdomen; Keep your arms straight forward and lift dumbbells sideways to exercise your shoulder and chest muscles.

3. You can exercise lower limb muscles. For example, squat with dumbbells on one foot and jump with both feet.

Tip: If you insist on reasonable exercise and living habits, plus a normal diet, you can be healthier. Insist on and discover your own potential and strengths with the eyes of discovery, and keep the fun of sports is fitness. Fitness is just to relax and move in the direction you pursue, not a painful and complicated process.

Third, dumbbell fitness methods

1. dumbbell shoulder pressure

Target position: You can sit up straight with your shoulders and upper chest, with your legs apart and your torso straight. Hold a dumbbell in each hand, palm forward, elbow bent 90 degrees. Lift the dumbbell to the top of your head. Control the dumbbell to slowly return to the initial position.

Practical effect: A man's shoulders should be wide enough to take responsibility and show momentum. The width of the shoulders depends on the size of the bones and deltoid muscles. Bone is difficult to change because of heredity, but we can exercise deltoid muscle. Pushing shoulders to practice deltoid muscle also helps to exercise the upper part of trapezius muscle and upper part of pectoral muscle. If you are worried about losing weight, practice this action more. In order to achieve better results, you can also add dumbbell front cross-lift, side cross-lift, oblique side cross-lift and other actions.

2. Dumbbell rowing upright

Target site: shoulder

Standing posture, legs are hip-width apart, torso is straight, and each hand holds a dumbbell, which is hung in front of the thigh and palms are backward. Bend the elbow to both sides and lift the dumbbell vertically to shoulder height. Note that the elbow joint is slightly higher than the dumbbell at this time. Stay for a few seconds, then slowly lower the dumbbell to the initial position.

Practice effect: This is also a classic action to exercise the shoulder, mainly practicing the deltoid muscle of the shoulder, assisting the upper part of the trapezius muscle, and especially strengthening the rotator cuff muscles. The rotator cuff muscles are composed of the tendons of supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor and subscapular muscles, which closely surround the shoulder joint and play a great role in the movement and stability of the shoulder joint.

3. Bend over the dumbbell and bend and stretch with one arm

Target site: upper arm back

Bend over, with your left hand on the edge of the stool or hard bed, your left knee kneeling on the stool, your right leg slightly bent to support your body, and your right hand is dumb and your upper body is parallel to the ground.

Bell, the upper arm is attached to the side, and the forearm hangs naturally. Keep the upper arm still, slowly straighten the elbow joint, and make the dumbbell rise to the back of the body. Then slowly restore the dumbbell to its original position. Repeat the specified number of times and do it on the other side.

Practice effect: Even if your thighs become thick because of playing football, you still can't change the state that your arms are as thin as hemp stalks. If you want to change, you must exercise. This action is an isolated training action, which can strengthen the triceps brachii at the back of the upper arm, make your arm stronger and stronger, and throw higher and farther when shooting at rest. When you exercise, the wrist angle is different, and the focus of the exercise is also different. Generally, the palm can be inward. The parallel bars arm flexion and extension can also effectively exercise the triceps brachii. If you adjust the angle properly so that the upper body is perpendicular to the ground, you can even focus on exercise.

4. Single arm flexion and extension behind dumbbell neck

Target site: upper arm back

You can sit standing. Step on the ground with your legs apart, keep your trunk straight, and hold the dumbbell in your right hand straight up, higher than your palm and forward. Keep your upper arm still, palm forward, slowly lower the dumbbell to the back of your head, and then straighten your elbow to restore the dumbbell to its original position. Repeat the specified number of times and do it on the other side.

Practice effect: This is also the action of exercising triceps brachii. The difference is that neck flexion and extension can focus on training the long head of triceps brachii and help to develop triceps brachii in an all-round way. At the same time, because the flexion and extension of the flexion arm is easy to borrow, the technical requirements for the action are relatively high, so it should be arranged in front, and the flexion and extension of the back arm of the neck can be completed with greater weight and hands, which can increase the muscle mass more effectively.

Fourth, the misunderstanding of dumbbell fitness

1. Exercising with dumbbells can not only increase strength, but also strengthen the body.

Using dumbbells scientifically can really get good exercise effect. It is said that Schwarzenegger's bodybuilding muscles are mainly obtained through dumbbell exercise. However, there are indeed many people who have neither increased their strength nor become fit after exercising with dumbbells, and they are often disheartened. Dumbbells have also been shelved and even become a substitute for hammers. In fact, dumbbell fitness is very knowledgeable. If you don't do it, the exercise effect is often not ideal.

Before exercising, we must first know who is our favorite, strength or bodybuilding. There are two main ways to exercise muscles. The first way can improve the strength of the exerciser, but the bodybuilding effect is relatively not obvious, which is suitable for professional weightlifters; The second way can obviously increase the muscle volume, but the strength increase is relatively small, which is suitable for bodybuilders or mass bodybuilders. Fitness enthusiasts usually take fitness as their main purpose. To this end, when using dumbbells to exercise, you must follow the following rules.

Choose dumbbells with appropriate weight before training. Generally, you need to choose dumbbells with a load of 65%-85%. The so-called load refers to the maximum weight that can be lifted. For example, if the maximum weight that can be lifted at a time is 10 kg, you need to choose dumbbells with a weight of 6.5-8.5 kg for exercise. For the average bodybuilder, there are two or three pairs of dumbbells with different weights, so it is enough to keep exercising. When exercising, lift 6-8 groups at a time, and each group repeats 8- 12 times. Don't move too fast, and each group is 2-3 minutes apart. The load is too large or too small, the intermittent time is too short or too long, and the effect is not good.

2. Dumbbells only practice upper limbs

Some people think that dumbbells can only build strong upper limbs. If you want to exercise in an all-round way, you may need some complicated equipment.

Nowadays, some expensive combination fitness equipment not only exists in gymnasiums, but also enters daily families. Although the combined instrument has incomparable advantages over other simple instruments, it also has some disadvantages, such as high price, large area and inconvenient movement. These shortcomings are precisely the advantages of dumbbells. As long as they are properly designed and planned, dumbbell training can achieve similar effects as using combined instruments. Why not?

Exercising upper limb muscles is dumbbell's specialty, but dumbbell can also exercise waist and abdomen muscles. For example, lifting dumbbells with both hands behind the neck during sit-ups can increase the load of abdominal exercise and improve the exercise effect; When doing back flexion and extension exercises, dumbbells can also be used to increase the load of back muscles and stimulate the growth of back muscles; Holding dumbbells can exercise internal and external oblique muscles; Holding dumbbells, arms straight forward and lifting sideways can exercise shoulder and chest muscles; In addition, dumbbells can also exercise lower limb muscles, such as squatting with one foot and jumping with both feet.

3. Dumbbells are not suitable for the elderly

There are many fitness enthusiasts among the elderly, but they often choose jogging, radio exercises or Tai Ji Chuan. Few people care about strength training, and dumbbells are basically ignored. Most people think that strength decreases with age, so it is not suitable for strength training. That was not the case. In a sense, the decline of strength needs strength training more.

Muscles move and help the body stay still. With the increase of age, muscle fibers naturally contract and their strength decreases, which not only slows down their movements, but also reduces their stability. Tendons and periosteum are more prone to excessive wear, so the possibility of pain in each joint is greatly increased. Proper strength exercise can not only delay the process of muscle atrophy in the elderly, maintain muscle elasticity, lay a foundation for better engaging in other forms of fitness activities, but also increase the protective effect of muscles on the stability of each joint, thus alleviating or alleviating various pains. Dumbbells are exquisite and inexpensive, especially suitable for strength exercise for the elderly.

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