Dumbbell Workouts
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You have reached a plateau with your workout. Your dumbbell exercises are becoming too routine and you want to challenge your muscles in a different yet effective way. There is one thing that is sure to work the muscle groups and add variety. What I like to call slowing things down. Every exercise you do for your chest, your shoulders, your arms can be done at a much slower pace.
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Let’s talk about chest flys either incline, decline or flat bench. What I would like you to do is lift the weight up, open up the arms and proceed with your fly by lowering the weights extremely slow, to the count of 4 or 6. Repeat this for as many repetitions as you can. Doing these reps slowly you’ll probably have to drop some weight with the dumbbells. The muscles stay activated longer causing more tears in the fibers and with recovery the muscles build up. You’ll want to do several sets of these slow reps. Keep this routine for a couple weeks and you should see results.
Another good trick to do with a dumbbell workout is doing drop sets. How a drop set works is on your last set, lift the most amount of weight you can till fatigue. Then quickly pick up a set of dumbbells that are about 10% less than your last set. Lift this set to fatigue. Then quickly pick up another pair of dumbbells, lighter than the second. Keep dropping down the weight till your muscles are physically fatigued and you cannot do a single repetition. Do this workout for about a month with each body part. This is a very effective way to build up your muscles.
Either of these dumbbell workouts adds a different dimension to your routine. It adds variety, keeps you motivated and keeps your muscles growing. That should help with plateaus. It is always good to keep your workouts new, fresh and different to get maximum results!
