wade49

Never heard of those, saw Scott Herman do them, and it looked like the way I wanted to do mine initially, but one-handed. I initially wanted to do them like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ3QwaXNJfw Flat off the floor, kinda like a squat/deadlift hybrid, I just don't have the mobility to get low enough to do it cleanly. Actually, it'd probably be even better to just put plates on the ground and lift them off that, it'd be pretty much just like a barbell deadlift. I don't really wanna lay plates all over the floor at my gym where it's crowded and I'm fighting for floor space though, it's technically against the gym rules to put the plates on the floor anyway. It's interesting how the dumbbell front squats I do and the barbell deadlift work very similar muscles. The only muscle unique to either of them, according to Exrx.net, are the rhomboids (on the deadlift). The targets are different, and some of the stabilizers aren't used the same way, but all of the same muscles are at least getting some work.

I think the beginner bodyweight routine on this site isn't half bad, if this is what you're talking about: https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/beginner-body-weight-workout-burn-fat-build-muscle/ I would probably do the quantities different. I think bare bones, you want a pushing exercise, a pulling exercise, and a leg exercise. I used to do something like this: Push: 3 sets of pushups or dips (quit each set 1 before failure and rest for a minute or 2 between sets) Legs: 3 sets of bodyweight squats or lunges (usually had a set amount like 10-20 per set, because you don't reach failure easy like pushups. rest for a minute or 2 between sets. sometimes i'd do both squats and lunges.) Pull: 3 sets of pullups or rows (quit each set 1 before failure and rest for a minute or 2 between sets) It's not going to make you a bodybuilder, but you can get in really good shape doing something like this. If I don't have access to a gym, it's what I do. Like the NF article says, you can use a water jug (or 2, depends if you're doing one-arm or a standing row) for the row if you don't have a dumbbell. You can also do a pullup with 2 chairs and a broomstick like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpU5GbLb0zw I just have one of those "Iron Gym"s that hang over the doorframe for pullups. edit: Also, if you don't have water jugs, dumbbells, or anyway to do a pulling exercise, I've read of some ways to do ZERO equipment ones, but I'm really not sure about their effectiveness. You can do a "reverse pushup", where you lie on your stomach, hands on the floor like in a pushup position, raise your palms and row all the way back. There's also one where you lie on your stomach, hands spread out like wings and you pull back like you're flapping, a bodyweight reverse fly, I guess. Those are super low resistance exercises, so I don't know how well they actually work, but I don't think they're completely meritless. I can't find the article where I read about them anymore. I never got into advanced bodyweight stuff, but there's some routines on reddit's r/bodyweightfitness for doing planches, pistols, v-sits, and other weirdo gymnast stuff.

I do walking lunges with weight. Actually started with doing Goblet Squats, but my gym only goes up to 60lb dumbells, so after a few weeks, I wanted more weight. Started doing a variant where you hold 2 above your shoulders (first one in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpYG-pTeaeA) and started doing that instead (currently do it with 2 45s). Yeah, I figure it's fine. I just get a little obsessive about whether I'm doing the right or wrong exercises sometimes. That's what draws me to compound exercises, you can do so few of them and hit your entire body. I guess I'm just a little bugged that I'm missing one of the big ones that everyone does. It's stupid though, there were years where I did nothing but pushups, and while that's far from a complete workout, I still was in pretty good shape and thought nothing of the incompleteness. I found this variant yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9HvO-2dfG0, it's like a Stiff Leg Deadlift where you don't set the weight at the bottom, but you do it with traditional deadlift form. I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier, seems like an ideal way to do them with dumbbells. Well, I think a Goblet DL is better, but you're gonna run out of weight a lot quicker since you can only use 1 dumbbell.

I really like doing only compound exercises, but I don't have access to barbells right now, so I only use dumbbells/bodyweight. I notice the big difference between what I do and other similar routines is they always have deadlifts. The options for deadlifts with dumbbells aren't that enticing to me. I don't have access to dumbbells heavy enough for a single dumbbell Goblet Deadlift off the floor to not be trivial, and I don't really trust myself doing Stiff-Leg Deadlifts, they seem really dangerous if your form isn't perfect. I figure I'm not too bad off because I do plenty of pulling exercises, and squats and lunges both work the glutes as a synergist, but I'm interested in feedback. Exercises I typically do: Squats or Lunges Bench or Overhead Press One Arm Row or Standing Bent Over Row Pullups