Hello everyone,
at the moment I have to use dumbbells resting on my shoulders when I squat(due to limited space/equipment). I find it very comfortable and natural.
Even though i’m a total newbie does it matter if i squat using a barbell or dumbbells?
Thanks.
[quote]Shire wrote:
Hello everyone,
at the moment I have to use dumbbells resting on my shoulders when I squat(due to limited space/equipment). I find it very comfortable and natural.
Even though i’m a total newbie does it matter if i squat using a barbell or dumbbells?
Thanks.[/quote]
Using a barbell allows for drastically more weight that can be used. More weight means you getting stronger. If you want to gain lots of muscle and get stronger a bar is preferred. If you are just lifting to stay in shape and boost metabolism your dumbbells are fine.
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I want to get stronger and gain lots of muscle.
Thing is at the moment I couldn’t handle the heaviest dumbbells we have.
So I guess it’s not a problem right now.
Thanks.
with dumbells your supporting the majority of the weight with your hands, with a barbell all the weight is on ur back. your grip strength or the ability to raise dumbells to your shoulders is gonna limit the ammount of weight you can use.
Keep the DBs at your sides (let your arms hang down). Having heavy DBs resting on your shoulders is a sure way to get hurt.
What equipment do you have available?
Hit The Gym I think I will adopt this method.
FightingScott my University gym has 2 olympic barbells for squatting and deadlifting, 3 for benching and 20-30 pairs of dumbbells of varying weight.
It is a very ,very busy gym so that is why I use db’s as the bb’s are always taken.
It’s the luck of the draw when I can use the bb’s for squats, for some weird reason the gym doesn’t have any patterns of when it’s even a little quiet(like the early morning/late night).
Use the squat rack. Ask if you can work in.
try friday and saturday nights and saturday and sunday mornings. I can almost guarantee that there will be substantially less people there.
Just Quickly, studies have shown that new weight trainees can gain just as much mass and power by doing single leg movements as two legged movements so perhaps you could do lunges, and single legged deadlifts instead.
I only mention this because these movements better suit your dumbell situation. Plus they also will give you a very solid base.
Long Live The BodyScience
[quote]hit the gym wrote:
Keep the DBs at your sides (let your arms hang down). Having heavy DBs resting on your shoulders is a sure way to get hurt.[/quote]
Don’t we have to worry about stress on the joints from just letting heavy weights hang?