Dumbbells can’t burn fat. A combination of a good diet and cardio are more likely to succeed. Dumbbells are a good tool to grow your muscles and get stronger. If you want to get lean while doing this, it is again back to diet.

 

 

 

The most important thing for exercise selection for your routines is that you are focused on the goals you want to achieve. Most of the times this is easier said than done. Many beginners want everything and nothing: 

 

 

These are just some examples of goal sets of beginners. It is completely normal to be timid or unsure about what you want to achieve and can achieve. It always helps to prioritize first what is important to you. The fields usually are: 

 

 

You can categorize it in a million different ways, but to keep it simple prioritize these five for yourself. 

 

Looks are all about what you see in movies, on Instagram and the magazine covers. While these are highly artificial, fabricated images of people, their impact on social life is very real. If you look for fame or financial success based on your looks you can achieve this, just be aware that the choices you will make to get there are not necessarily healthy, make you enduring, strong or well-performing in sports. Eating disorders and steroids might provide an outstanding look, but don’t help you to be strong or have healthy sperm. 

 

If your main focus is the health you will mainly choose moderate diets and exercise regimen. You won’t go crazy on diets or schedules as this means too much stress. This will keep you healthy but probably never get you to the pinnacles is endurance, strength, looks or endurance. But that is ok as long as you are fertile and happy. 

 

Performance is usually sports-related. This means that endurance and strength training is still important, but play a secondary role in skill practice in the relevant sport you pursue. It is of not a lot of use to be strong like a bull but not being able to skate if you play ice hockey. The good news about sports is that looks don’t matter that much. If you are a blob that can lift a fire truck in a very truck lifting competition, nobody cares that you are not ripped or have shining white teeth. Even though that might help to attract sponsors. 

 

If you are mainly into strength you can park all efforts and time on endurance and skill practice. You can fully focus on lifting barbells, stones, and other heavy objects. You might even toss them in the general direction of people in the gym who get on your nerves. 

 

If you are mainly about endurance you can spent your time on your long runs, swims and cycles around the country and maybe never look at a rack. Yes, you might not be the strongest or most buff, but who cares when you cycle the Ardennes with a smile. 

 

Prioritizing these five areas for yourself will help to make it a lot clearer to you, your GP and your personal trainer which exercises to pick and at which intensity to perform. This will determine which rack is the best for you or whether you need one at all. 

 

 

Dumbbell training has its benefits in being very versatile to handle. Dumbbells are smaller than barbells and can, therefore, be moved more freely around. This makes them better tools to burn fat than barbells. 

 

If you want to use dumbbells to burn fat try to make it an as many reps as possible Setup over a certain time. This is usually the best way to burn fat with dumbbells. The weights should be fairly light and you push yourself while keeping perfect form. 

 

 

The main driver of losing weight and getting more toned is your diet. Your body will burn fat by itself without you doing anything if you cut back on food considerably. 

 

The easiest way of looking at it is calories in, calories out. If there is fewer calories eaten than you burn, you lose calories. 

 

 

You don’t go outside to get it done. You also have more options to move around. This makes agile routines more feasible than with a dumbbell. 

 

 

Compared to running or rowing the activity is hard to be maintained over a long stretch of time. For burning fat sustained activity over a longer period of time is the best way to go. I lost 15 kg in preparation for my First marathon only running without any diet changes. 

 

 

Alternatives to dumbbells for burning fat:

 

 

Cardio is probably the simplest way to burn fat. Keep your heart rate at the ideal range for your age and weight and keep going for a sustained time. 

 

Simple and sinister is a great kettlebell routine that was developed by Pavel Tsatsoulin. You will do ten sets of ten swings and ten Turkish get-ups. It is a great circuit to burn fat in a 20-minute workout. 

 

Tabata, Circuit training and CrossFit Are usually high-Intensity interval training. This training makes use of playing around with load and rest periods to burn fat. This is an option which is good if you find that cardio is too boring. 

 

Dumbbells won’t burn fat. A good diet and sustained activity over a long period of time will. Dumbbells are better suited to building muscle and getting stronger.