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I bought a pair of dumbbells and I’ve been working out consistently. Getting sore in all the little stabilizer muscles I didn’t know I had.
That's awesome, how heavy are the dumbbells? What routine are you doing? I would like to get into dumbbells but don't know where to start. I never did any weightlifting, only cardio and some basic bodyweight exercises.
Mine are 20 lbs. I've mainly been using them for overhead tricep extensions, military presses, and bicep curls, and as floor handles for pushups. For the first two, make sure to not splay your elbows out to the sides, it can hurt your rotator cuffs. Keep your elbows aimed forward. This kinda also goes for pushups, don't open your arms out to 90 degrees from your torso, keep your elbows closer to your body. For all these exercises, focus on your mind-body connection, keep an activated core and try to feel your whole body, down through your hips to your feet.