Setting up a Dumbbell Full Body Workout
Setting up a full body dumbbell workout is extremely easily. According to Craig Ballantyne, creator of Turbulence Training, you should always start off with a warm-up.
He prefers to use a basic bodyweight warm up. Craig believes that a bodyweight warm up is much better then spending 5 minutes on a treadmill. The treadmill just trains you heart.
But bodyweight movements warm up your muscles.
After the bodyweight warm up, it’s straight on to 3-4 supersets of non-competing exercises. Non-competing supersets means that you perform two exercises back to back with little to no rest in between each set.
For example, you may want to a do dumbbell chest press followed by dumbbell bent over row. Craig also likes to alternate between upper and lower body movements.
He also mentions that you should do your hardest exercise first. This makes sense, since you want to get your hardest exercise completed first when you’re fresh.
You also want to use exercises that use the same weights. For example, if you need to use 50lbs for a Dumbbell Squat, but can only manage 30lbs for a Dumbbell Chest Press, then you’ll be forced to have two sets of dumbbells with you.
If this is not convenient, then don’t do it. If your dumbbell exercises and weights don’t match up, then simply alternate between a dumbbell and bodyweight exercise.
In fact, most of Craig Ballantyne’s workouts have you alternating between bodyweight and dumbbell movements. You should really take a look at some of his workouts.
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