Gg1, Well, where is your home? And if I was ever one who read your good things without responding, I apologize. So many threads and so little time. Still, no excuse.
Dumbells were always my passion rather than barbells: they keep so many muscles firing for balance individually. Especially when you do as many exercises (as I did) while standing on one leg. For years, I owned something called The Power Block: kind of a square-framed, center-handled dumbell-within-a-dumbell-within-a-dumbell, etc. that you could use to pick up 5 lbs. Or move the pin and out would come 10 lbs., or 15, 20, etc. I loved it.
Alas, I sold it on craigslist recently in my de-stuffifying purge. Also sold my inversion table (which was SO good for my back - and for the lymphatic system, too). I'm now trying to sell my ParaBody CM3 gym with no takers so far.
That's okay, though. I find I'm more inclined to exercise when I have to get off my duff and go somewhere (fortunately 1/4 mile away) than I am when it's all right downstairs.
Also, it allows me to mingle a bit with people, do yoga, and they have a sauna, hot tub & pool!
That's all goodness since the sitch and the last twenty months have me so out of shape!
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac
