Making The Most of Limited Space with Adjustable Dumbbells

Not everyone has a gym or health club right around the corner from their home and those of us with already full schedules may not want to spend an hour+ driving round trip to get a good workout in.  A home gym is a great way to build muscle, burn fat and get fit; but what about those of us who live in apartments?

Even if you have a one or even two bedroom apartment, building a fully stocked gym to accommodate all of your fitness needs would be pretty difficult with traditional strength training equipment.  A barbell, weight plates and a bench would likely take up an entire room, making it virtually unusable for anything else and adding a fully loaded dumbbell rack would probably make it difficult to move around.

If your home has limited space, or if you just want your workout equipment to take up as little space in your home as possible, there are perfectly viable options available that will let you get a complete workout, without any sacrificing, that take up hardly any real estate.

A good traditional weight set would normally be the equipment that takes up the majority of space, multiple dumbbells, a barbell, dozens of weight plates, collars, etc. in the most common from can easily fill up an average sized room.  In order to maximize your space without sacrificing workout quality, this is the equipment that needs to be addressed and you can do that with a good adjustable dumbbell set.

Powerblock makes a set of adjustable dumbbells that go from five pounds up to ninety pounds in ten pound increments quickly and easily.  This will give every weight trainer from beginner to advanced plenty of options to be able to get a quality resistance workout – and best of all, the rack that conveniently holds and stores these dumbbells takes up about the same amount of space as your average nightstand.

You can perform squats, rows, deadlifts, presses, curls and Olympic lifts safely and easily with these dumbbells and get a workout in a tiny bedroom that will rival the workout that you would get in any commercial gym.  No travel, no fighting for time on machines and no sacrificing the valuable real estate of your already cramped apartment.

Top of the line adjustables can be a little pricey, but there are plenty of manufacturers that make them and most make a “budget” version that doesn’t go quite as heavy or have as many adjustments that would be perfect for people who don’t need 90lb dumbbells or who don’t want to spend too much money.  Add a sturdy adjustable bench to the fold and you’ve got all the equipment you’ll need to perform just about any exercise and you’ll be able to fit your entire home gym in the corner of a small room.