Spider bar - SQ Bar

[Humble Narcissist]

Because of my gym closing down as a result of Fauxvid-19, I started using dumbbells only for my workouts at home. What a difference. I will never go back to using barbells, or a gym.
 
I lift for fitness and appearance and have retained if not improved my muscle size as a result of these dumbbell workouts. As for legs, I sprint on my bicycle a few times a week. Works far better than squats with zero back compression or joint pain. Plus it's better being outside.

Dumbbells are the best.  Any exercise you can do with a barbell you can do with dumbbells plus you can change the angle easier to hit different parts of the muscle in the same set.  Also, no one ever died from dumbbell benches.

[Hypertrophy]

I was just about to say all that...the vector thing.

 

lol It's one of the few things I remember with passion from my physics classes.

They had to figure all this out because of hip replacement surgery. The farther out you place your leg away from the hip, the higher the force acting on your hip socket. Your hip abductor muscles try to keep the joint in place but aren't all that strong in relation to your quads. It's no surprise that long time lifters have bad joints.

[IroNat]

lol It's one of the few things I remember with passion from my physics classes.

They had to figure all this out because of hip replacement surgery. The farther out you place your leg away from the hip, the higher the force acting on your hip socket. Your hip abductor muscles try to keep the joint in place but aren't all that strong in relation to your quads. It's no surprise that long time lifters have bad joints.

Interesting.