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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:43 Wally Day  wrote:

> I've been looking at different versions of the
>"selectorized" dumbells. I'd rather go that route than having 20 different
>sets of them in my little workout space.
>
>Does anyone possess a pair of these, and how do you feel about them? What
>brand did you end up getting?
>
Never used them, Wally. I do my weights workout at the nearby university gym where there is a
good range of weights.  However, last year I supplemented my barbell/dumbbell activity with
kettlebells and I have to buy my own and so don't have the advantage of a full range.  Despite this,
I find I get adequate variation by building up the reps and by introducing a variety of exercises.  In
all but one of my (roughly) twenty different weights routines, there is only one in which I repeat a
set.  For all the others I use different exercises or significantly different weights (not fractional
increments).

There's a top article on bodyweight exercises at:

http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode3/229/

and this addresses directly the issue of introducing incremental increases in intensity while still
using a single weight (that of the exerciser's own body).  Presently I'm doing eight abs exercises
and only one of these uses a weight.  It's rather like a jackknife so I could easily switch to pure
jackknifes and that would make all my abs activity body-weight.  Come to think of it, I might try
that - jackknifes look so much more impressive (when done with grace and rhythm) than hoisting
weights!

Keith

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