The Great Dumbbell DVD

Video quality is poor, but this is very helpful to someone new to dumbbells I’m closer to 50 than I am to 40 and I know that I need to lift weights to maintain bone density, etc. Even though I’ve been active all my life, I’ve never known how to lift weights. I knew enough that proper form is important and stabilizing one’s abdomen is important for safety reasons, but I didn’t know what proper form was and exactly how one stabilizes her abdomenals. This book explains how to find proper form, how to breath through a rep, how to stabilize your core, and then the proper…

Amazing the workout you can get with dumbbells & bench! Amazing the workout you can get with nothing more than dumbbells and a bench. The production on this DVD is not particularly slick–bare bones–but instruction is very good. There is instructional narrative along with demonstration. What I really like is a little graphic with each exercise illustrating exactly which muscle(s) the exercise works. A couple of introductory pieces on posture, technique and general advice on training, then instruction/demo on exercises broken down by core, chest,…