NEW BEGINNINGS DUMBBELL WORKOUT #3

One of the most important things to understand for getting great results when training with weights is that you need to use heavier weights for some exercises and lighter weights for others.

Some muscle groups are bigger and stronger than others - a weight that challenges and sculpts small muscles, will do very little for big muscles and vice versa.

So, if you find an exercise really easy to perform with correct technique, that's probably a signal telling you you'll get better results if you use a heavier weight for this exercise.

Correct technique is always our top priority, never, ever, use weights that are so heavy you can't maintain proper posture and technique - but so long as you can, the weight is not too heavy, if it's challenging, that's great, you're doing what's required to sculpt lovely firm, strong, shapely, calorie-burning muscles.

Please keep that in mind in this workout.

IMPORTANT NOTE: No one's perfect and I'm afraid I made a mistake when recording this workout. I forgot to do the static lunge in the second round. But I didn't want you to have to pause the video so I've inserted the clip of me doing the lunge in the first round again in round two... You'll see what I mean when you go through the video - the main thing is, please remember to have the opposite leg forward in the second round.

Today's Workout

In this workout we'll be doing 40/20 intervals - 40 seconds per exercise, 20 seconds break between. So we're not counting reps - I want you going at your own pace, paying attention to correct posture and technique.

40/20 seconds

Warm-up (unweighted):

  1. Gentle jog in place
  2. good mornings
  3. Chair static back lunge alt
  4. Chair squat

Main:

  1. Chest press
  2. Chest flye
  3. Static lunge L/R
  4. Bent row
  5. Back Flye

x 2

Abs burn-out:

Chair squat & twist R

Chair squat & twist L

Weighted bent knee hollow hold x 2

How are you doing with these workouts? I'm still building this series so it'd really help me out to know how you're progressing, what you're using (if any) and how you found this workout compared to the first dumbbell one - please let me know in our Facebook group!