To reply to a digest, insert the relevant message header; don't reply to the digest header ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The FAQ for Evolutionary Fitness is at http://www.evfit.com/faq.htm