weights advice (dumbells)

snow patrol · 17 Jan 2006 at 10:29

i'm looking to 'bulk up' a bit. Not excessively, but just to increase my strength a bit i suppose. I guess you could say i'm fairly thin overall and i haven't exactly got big arms (particularly forearms actually).

Can anyone recommend some good dumbells for me to get started on, and what sort of lifting i should be doing with them? Before anyone asks, i honestly haven't got much time at the moment to be going to gyms and diong proper excercise routines etc

Also, if someone could point me in the direction of a good online retailer where i could buy...that'd be great! Thanks.

chrisd · 17 Jan 2006 at 11:14

I have a set of spinlock dumbells from Argos and they're fine for starting out with. Certainly give Gordys bodybuilding sticky a read through so you have a rough idea of your goals. A useful site as far as explaining exercises and muscle groups is http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

Smit · 17 Jan 2006 at 11:19

I agree with the Weights from Argos.

Quite a decent set to get started with... (I seem to recall that one set has two dumbells and a barbell along with 60kg of weights to add)

A2Z · 17 Jan 2006 at 11:33

Also a site i use is http://bodybuilding.com/fun/exercises.htm

Pick which muscle group, then select Dumbbells from the drop down menu thing and it will show you all the exercises!