Smart Uses for Dumbbells

摘要

Every day it seems as if some-body's got the perfect new plan for buff and healthy muscles. Lift as many weights as possible, lift as slowly as possible. Exercise five days a week―or just eight minutes a day. Use pulley machines, no, make that free weights. With all the information flooding bookstores and the Internet, it's tempting to ditch the barbells. The best thing you can do? Learn the basics (read on), find a routine that works for you and inspire yourself with a personal goal. "Anything that motivates somebody to exercise, I'm all for it," says Walt Thompson, 47, an exercise physiologist at Georgia State University, whose own aim is to ward off a heart attack, which his father suffered at the age of 52. "It's never too late."