Free Weights

The free-weight advantage

• Free weights incorporate the stabilizing muscles that enable you to perform the movements you choose to make and may be more effective in producing overall muscular strength and power gains.
• Free-weight exercises tend to more closely match the movement patterns you're likely to need for specific sports.
• Free weights are more versatile — you can do a wide variety of exercises with a simple set of dumbbells. You can, for example, hold the weights with palms facing forward, facing your body, or facing the wall behind you. In doing so, you can do three different exercises that will work your muscles in different ways.
• Free weights tend to be inexpensive, are portable and take up little space.