Sports equipment for home. Which is better to choose?

Which is better to choose dumbbells, kettlebells or expanders?

Entering any more or less sports-oriented store, your eyes widen at abundance of “iron equipment”... Magazines and colorful banners are full of all kinds of advertising exercise machines and weightlifting equipment... But what to choose from all this variety? How to choose the best, “cheap but cheerful” sports equipment for your home? What's better? Dumbbells, weights, expander?

In my opinion, the best option is the acquisition collapsible dumbbells. “Why dumbbells?” you ask. – The fact is that it is dumbbells that will allow us to add to our list greatest number all kinds of exercises. Open the section of the site with exercises and evaluate how many exercises involve this particular type of apparatus. Another significant advantage of this choice is that almost any exercise with a barbell can be performed by replacing it with dumbbells. For example, instead of deadlifting a barbell, pull dumbbells; Instead of squats with a barbell on your shoulders, do squats with dumbbells. Bench press and seated press are also done with dumbbells. So dumbbells in bodybuilding and fitness – universal tool.

Expander – of course, this is also a good thing, but in view limited amount of exercise, is significantly inferior to dumbbells. Another significant disadvantage of the expander is weak capabilities on selection of necessary loads. Having hooked the last spring onto the expander, you can forget about further increasing the difficulty. Suffering from the same problem weight. Despite a significant amount of exercise, fixed weight kettlebells do not allow flexible adjustment of the load level, which lowers it to a lower level in our rating.

Collapsible dumbbells They are devoid of all the listed disadvantages and have excellent potential if they are selected correctly.

I hope this small article helped you decide which sports equipment for home use is better and which is worse. Although, of course, all this is very subjective and is a matter of taste for each athlete...

Read about how to choose the right dumbbells in one of our next articles. Happy shopping!