How many kilograms of dumbbells should a novice lift?

After exercising for a period of time, many people are not satisfied with exercising with bare hands and start to use equipment to exercise. Dumbbells are one of the first pieces of equipment we come into contact with in fitness equipment. When newbies choose dumbbells for the first time, they either choose heavy ones in a hurry, or choose light ones for safety. Then do you know how many kilograms a novice needs to lift to lift dumbbells? Woolen cloth? Let’s go take a look below!


For preliminary fitness dumbbells, you can choose electroplated ones, which are not easy to fall off and dirty hands. As for the weight of the dumbbells, in principle it is recommended to buy the heavier the better. Based on the normal physical fitness and exercise intensity of the Chinese people, and taking into account the future stage of increased dumbbell fitness intensity, the following dumbbell combinations are formulated:

Height below 1.60 meters and weight within 60kg-25kg combination;

Height under 1.70 meters and weight within 70kg-30kg combination;

Height under 1.80 meters and weight within 80kg-35kg combination;

Height under 1.90 meters and weight within 95kg - 45kg combination.

In bodybuilding theory, RM is used to represent the highest number of repetitions that can be done continuously for a certain load. For example, if the practitioner can only lift a weight 5 times in a row, the weight is 5RM. If your dumbbell fitness purpose is to build muscle, do related dumbbell movements of 8RM to 12RM every day, do about 3 to 8 groups of each movement, and do 8 to 12 in each group; if your dumbbell fitness purpose is to shape your body, do it every day Related dumbbell movements are 15RM to 20RM, do 5-6 groups of each movement, and do 15 to 20 reps in each group.