Basic hardware par excellence, the short dumbbell remains the tool impossible to circumvent of the body-builder. Indeed, it makes it possible to carry out a number impressing of muscle-development exercises, like their many alternatives.

The beginner can initiate his body with the basic movements, take force without great risk to be wounded - with the proviso of not taking too heavy and of being attentive. Besides their weak cost and obstruction explain their popularity in the hearths, making it possible whoever to do a little sport at home.

The practitioners more experimented find there a tool very flexible, allowing to correct the small defects and to support their program of drive. The vast majority of the amator and professional bodybuilders use them besides regularly.

In spite of this polyvalence, the short dumbbell does not make it possible to correctly work all the muscles of the body, and remains especially used for the pectoral ones, the shoulders and the arms.

The hardware in itself has various qualities of manufacture.
If the simple small steel bar is enough with the majority to the practitioners, the more elaborate models (and more expensive…) offer a better adherence (especially for the people having the moist hands), as well as more solid and surer systems of fastener.
In the rooms of fitness, one generally finds a choice rather broad of dumbbells “prefabricated”, with fixed and very protected weights.