3 Mistakes People Make During Their Dumbbell Workout

Swinging the Dumbbell during the Exercise

If you watch people who exercise with dumbbells for the first time who are doing alternating bicep curls during their dumbbell workout, you’ll often see that they’re using their lower back along with momentum to lift the dumbbells. Dumbbell training without strict form does not exercise the targeted muscles properly and can lead to injury.

Using Too Heavy Dumbbells In Your Workout

Whether you’re training to build strength, power or muscle mass, one of the key exercise fundamentals is “progressive overload”. Meaning, in order to get bigger and stronger muscles, you’ll have to progressively lift more than you’re accustomed to. But this does not mean that you start lifting 100 lbs dumbbells if you’re only capable of 50 lbs dumbbells.

The last thing you want is to psyche yourself up for a heavy dumbbell exercise, and not being able to lift the dumbbells at all.

Training With A Weightlifting Belt

You see this everywhere. A big muscle head about to exercise straps on a weightlifting belt, and performs non-back related exercises like the bench press.

Although a belt is effective to stabilize your core area, this takes the load off of your core muscles, resulting in an underdeveloped abdominal area. In the end, if you consistently workout with a belt, your core will become weak and you’ll depend on them during your training.