As a quick refresher: “Strength training is the practice of using resistance to train skeletal muscles to make them stronger by improving their endurance, strength, or size (or all three),” Arrington says in his guide. “There are many ways to strength train and various types of strength goals.” Dumbbells, for example, can be a tool to support a type of strength training called hypertrophy (also known as muscle building).
Below is a selection of great dumbbell exercises, recommended and demonstrated by Arrington.
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