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by Trevor Gardner

Its strange that whilst the number of men with gym memberships has increased by 16% since 2003, the number who hit the weights has dropped by 15%. This drop is worrying because if you go and lift weights of any sort 3 times a week you can achieve the following:-

1) Cut the risk of diabetes in just four months. According to a study at Tufts University, Massachusetts weight training reduces blood-glucose levels and improve insulin sensitivity.

2) Treat Depression. Harvard University researchers have compared the benefits of weight training and cardio exercise over a 10 week period and discovered that weight lifters experienced the greater mood boost.

3) Spike your testosterone. Researchers in Finland have discovered that the hormone testosterone plays a key role in your overall mortality risk and of course your sex drive.

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Anymore, Dumbbell weight sets are a necessity in any home gym. If you’ve been pounding away for years on a bike or treadmill doing your cardio exercises – faithfully – but your fitness level has reached a plateau, what can you do? The answer lies in varying your workout by exercising with free weights, i.e., dumb bells and barbells.

Use Free weights to advance your training

Most fitness trainers will tell you that dumbbell exercises are a must in weight lifting. To get an idea of what they can do for you, imagine how muscles work together when opposing each other.

On any given lift, one muscle is contracting and another is relaxing, such as the biceps and triceps when performing a biceps curl with a dumbbell in each hand. Since the tricep must be move as well, the bicep is not completely isolated. Hence, doing multiple sets of repetitive exercises using dumbbells will work the target muscle — but it goes a step further.

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