Yo Jow Forums I want to get in shape and start lifting weights.
Do i need anything other than a barbell and dumbells to start out with? Money is a little tight, but i saw stuff like pic related on Amazon for pretty cheap. I couldnt find about this type of stuff in the sticky. It said it's only 20kg so im worried thats not heavy enough, but i have no idea how much i can actually lift. Help me please!
My living situation means i am very far from our closest town without a license, and i cant really get access to a gym as a result, otherwise i would just buy a gym membership. Just trust me on this one please.
i feel like if you get that cheap dumbell barbell combo plates that total like 40 should be fine. for like press rows and curls i guess. but youll have to upgrade as you progress.
Matthew Thomas
i wouldnt get a screw together barbell tho
Aaron Barnes
Shop for used plates online, it's better to be a DYEL and save up for a few months to get good equipment, than go be a DYEL permanently because your equipment is too lightweight
Brandon Gray
for beginning lifting you will want to be able to assemble 20-30lb dumbbells and bar weights up to 100 lbs you could start with 4x25 4x10 4x5 4x2.5, maybe even less and be set for a while
Anything else i need to start lifting apart from this?
Mason Ortiz
for 50 bucks that seems pretty good. the plates seem kinda sketchy tho
Christopher Perez
Do you have Decathlon in your country? They sell cheap chink shit, but it's good enough for beginners. Get their standard barbell and 100kg (four tens, two twenties, four fives, two 1kg and four half kg plates) of weight plates. Also I don't think you need dumbbells, at least not yet. Most beginner routines don't really make use of dumbbells, and if they do you can probably replace the exercise with barbell alternative.
Hunter Brooks
Do bodyweight exercises instead.
Nicholas Sanders
Obviously you are going to need Bench to lift that much. Decathlon has a cheap one and also some cheap rack too. Save up money if you don't have and do bodyweight training in the meanwhile.
Gabriel Lopez
This.
Elijah Robinson
argos has a pretty good return policy so if it's trash i'll just return it i guess.
I live deep in the uk countryside next to a cliff edge essentially. Sounds mental, but thats how it is and im quite far away from society. I live partly off illustration work and splitting rent with parents, just not for this type of stuff (not willing to dox my art accounts though haha)
Joseph Gray
what the fuck how are you supposed to curl the dumbbells in the bottom pic??
Adrian Wilson
they're detachable
Ethan Wright
If you gonna get that thing from amazon just get a dumbell and some weights bro so you can start doing stuff, until you can afford a real barbell because that one sucks. I bought an olympic barbell and 100kg of discs from decathlon for about 310€ and it's the best thing I have ever bought. After that I bought an olympic dumbbell from aliexpress for like 40€ so I could use the discs that I already bought with the oly barbell. You aren't gonna regret buying these kind of things because they will last you a lifetime and they are always gonna be there.
Zachary Adams
As a noob stay the fuck away from dumbells because youll quickly get too strong for them
Do serious bodyweight/weighted calisthenics stuff until you can afford a barbell setup that will last Also watch Ironl00 on youtube he's my new favorite fitness youtuber and he did calisthenics for years before lifying weights and now hes uber-Banemode
Btw the weighs came with the barbell, it was like a pack. I just checked uk decathlon they sell oly barbells for 129£, but the retards don't sell cheap plates, only rubber plates and bumper plates, what a bunch of retards.
Joshua White
Pullup bar Pushups and dips
William Gray
>As a noob stay the fuck away from dumbells because youll quickly get too strong for them ???? What type of advice is this homie? What about 40kg dumbells, will he get too strong for them in 3 months? Lmao
Mason Robinson
yeah but then what’s the point of the middle bar?
Ryder Morales
OP Here
I ended up buying a 50kg set of dumbbells for about £50, and will save up for a decent bar over the next few months. Hopefully 50KG will be fine for now.
Jonathan Williams
don’t get that garbage. Cheapest thing you could do is body weight. Just a pull-up and dip bar/weighted pushups. If you have some money, get dumbbells with Olympic plate sized collars. That way you can start getting plates that will be used with your barbell when you can afford it. Those types of dumbbells can fit good weight in them too.
Grayson Powell
What good is a 90 pound dumbell for? He wont be able to curl it press it or row it so basically hell be able to do farmers walks and goblet squats/lunges with it until he gets too strong for that and then he still wont be able curl it press it or row it
Noah Hernandez
You can add or remove weight from the dumbell man
Jaxson Evans
Get the proper barbell, weights, rack and bench first. Get a plate loaded dumbell some time in the future then another one if you want to do something that requires two. You might even be able to use bands in creative ways instead of using dumbells.
Remember those dumbells become useless the second you outgrow them.
But that's for a homegym. If you mean like buying a $20 weight kit off Amazon because you can literally afford nothing else then do what other anons have said and just get a overhead bar and start doing calisthenics.
Caleb Myers
I just bought a bench and a proper barbell set, I was recommended to start off using the bar and working up adding 5 lbs or 10 lbs a week or workout or whatever. Should I really just start off with the bar, I understand that it's really important to develop form and proper lifting techniques especially since I've only ever used dumbbells before, but I feel like I could easily lift a little more even. I was bored and benching to see my max 5rep without compromising my form. and I got up to 1 pl8. Where should I start?
>It said it's only 20kg so im worried thats not heavy enough
I have the dumbbells. the all steel ones. the 20kg is for each individual dumbbell. you can slap all the plates to one handle to have something close to 40kg in a single dumbbell if you really wanna go hard.
I say close to 40kg because the 20kg is the total weight of the dumbbell including the handle with both spin locks. so you can probably make a 36kg pound one to be more precise.
The dumbbells take up less space in my room and offer more variety of workouts than the long barbell, so i would just get the dumbbells.
Be sure to get the all metal ones. do NOT get the ones with the rubber grip center, those will break and make the handle unusable because the rubber part also keeps the plates from slapping your hand while lifting and that rubber is cheap and breaks in a week. get all metal.
Pic related is my set. It's a sum total of 50kg stainless steel weights which costed me around $179NZ. But realistically, 20kg is all you really need. It's the amount of reps that count.
Don't get free weights unless you plan on getting good shit. At some point you're going to want to expand your gym's vocabulary and if your first installments are shit, you'll want to start from scratch. If you're starting out, get a pullup bar, rings, maybe some resistance bands If you have to get free weights, get an olympic bar instead of these shitty screw bars. Get a used one if you're lifting babyweight. Your plates should be used no matter what, don't pay more than 1$/lb But if you want to start working out, the shit you can do with a pullup bar and rings in relation to their price is incomparable to anything else
Matthew Parker
Dont get cheap shit, the weights will all be labelled wrong. I have a pair of cheap dumbbells which are meant to be 20lbs, with the plates adding up to 10lbs on each side. I couldn't curl them properly which I thought was weird because I usually have no problem with that weight. After weighing them i learned they're actually 40lbs, and the plates are all numbered completely wrong
Nathan Cooper
this based and redpilled
Kevin Kelly
this is good shit
Ian Russell
This plus simple dumbbells and flexibility/stretching programs daily. Then after a couple of months when you have a decent base look into a gym.
