The Total Dumbbell Workout by Steve Barrett

Author:Steve Barrett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 2011-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

the best of the best

This entire collection of moves are certainly need-to-know moves, but you want to perfect the classics in the previous section before getting carried away with these more complex moves. It wasn’t until the late 1990s that the fitness industry began to realise the importance of rotation (transverse plane of motion) for the development of optimal functionality and performance, so until then most of the classic dumbbell moves worked through the straight symmetrical planes of motion, known as ‘sagittal’ and ‘frontal’.

This is another of those situations where the public could be forgiven for thinking that all personal trainers had suddenly torn up the rule book because there was an immediate tendency for trainers to squeeze a bit of rotation movement into all weight lifting moves, mainly for effect. However, I like to think that it wasn’t that we were doing anything wrong, but that we were merely excited that we had just found the missing link for our strength programmes. Now the industry has embraced functional and core training you see almost the opposite situation: if an exercise isn’t classed as being functional, then it will soon fall out of favour.

Some of the best of the best moves are also classics, so my apologies for mentioning them twice, but that’s the thing about classics – you never get bored of them.

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