After 4 months, I recently went from 7.5kg dumbbells to 10kg dumbbells and it feels really heavy whenever I lift above my chest level. like my shoulders and back have a hard time doing the exercises. But 2 days ago I bought a barbell and loaded it with 28 kgs I was comfortably ( little bit challenging) able to do my exercises. I dont understand why the dumbbells feel so difficult to work with.
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Dumbbells are less stable than barbells as they have to be coordinated separately. So this sounds pretty normal to me, my 30lb dumbbells feels about the same as my 70lb barbell when doing curls.
It doesn’t really matter though, unless all of the stabilization work is preventing you from getting as much muscular stimulation as the barbell. I find that I can get a good workout with either, but I prefer dumbbells for some movements and since I lack a rack the extra safety of just being able to drop the dumbbells usually wins out.
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