Did you know that dumbbell workouts are your secret weapon to build larger and stronger muscles, burn more fat and develop a stronger core in a much shorter time than with most other workouts?

Let’s find out how.

Help you focus on your goals: To implement the best suitable dumbbell workout session, you first need to know what your objective is. For example, do you want broader lateral muscles or stronger deltoids? Whether you just want to enhance your muscle tone or get those big, bulky muscles, the dumbbell workout can help you with your goals.

   
Faster exposure of muscles: If you use dumbbells for unilateral (one sided training, e.g. right or left) training, it will be a more efficient way of blasting your fat than using two-limb versions of the same workout. This eventually leads to more fat burning and quick muscle building. However, it doesn’t mean that you should limit yourself to only one sided workouts. Unilateral training is basically when you initially do all of the reps with one leg or arm (right or left), and then subsequently do the same workout with the same number of repetitions with the remaining arm and leg. Therefore, you actually spend twice as long doing each workout, doubling your metabolic rate as well. This obviously results in more calorie burning and leads to rapid fat loss. There are many different kinds of dumbbell routines that target almost every muscle group. In fact, people looking to build lean muscle instead of that big bulky stuff should spend a lot more time working with dumbbells and free weights than machines.

Stronger, faster core: Your dumbbell workouts help you build a core stronger and quicker than sit ups, crunches, sit ups and other frequent abdominal workouts. The reason is that performing dumbbells exercises in unison, unilaterally or in an alternating manner needs strong stabilization from your central core muscles. This literally turns every dumbbell workout you perform into a perfect 6-pack abdominal exercise.

Let’s understand this by the following example:

If you just hold a dumbbell on one side of your body, your core muscles will naturally need to contract just to establish a proper balance on the other side. Likewise, to do the workout properly, your body naturally involves your core muscles to prevent your body from losing equilibrium (balance). Naturally, that’s how your whole dumbbell exercise targets your very core. The resulting core strength is vital for a high level of performance and helps you create rippled abdominal muscles that look just perfect.

The whole-body effect: By now, you should know that you can use dumbbell workouts to achieve a whole body muscular and cardio exercise effect simultaneously. Regular yet rhythmic dumbbell workouts not only lead to larger, stronger muscles, but also need significant cardio (heart) and respiratory (lung) power,  involving multiple body systems at one time.

For the same reason, while most exercise sessions have a weight training activity followed by a cardio workout session, you can use your dumbbells to get a combined whole-body effect in much lesser time. And last but not least, working your muscles, lungs and heart, altogether at the same time gives you a gift of an incomparable body stamina and strength!