>>508006907I have lots of dumbbells and find them useful.
Do you know the best thing for my pull ups is just shoveling truckloads of dirt?
Every year there's like a month where I move a lot of dirt and don't even do any pull ups and after that month is over suddenly I can do way higher quality reps, more of them, and for longer, and with less effort. Digging with a shovel translates so well into pull up strength.
One good way to use the dumbbells is to have some not very heavy ones and do the running up and down a hill or if in the gym you use the stair stepper machine. Gets you drenched in sweat, gets heart rate up, gets the whole body worked out very fast.
They are also really good in mobility training and if you get an injury you can rehabilitate yourself with them.
I also don't really do anything with lifting weights on a bar unless with a friend who is doing it. Dumbbells work the stabilizer muscles that bars / smith-machine don't.
I do a lot of different types of workouts too. Like extremely high volume low weight ones I do a lot, I do isometrics, I don't just do the standard 7-12 reps and put the weight down I change up my exercises constantly and dynamically. I make things work depending on what I'm doing that day and the next, changing up variables like intensity so I can still get my work done.
Btw those /fit/ meme guys who complain about no face gains and who have insane muscles but a soft face that's because they don't work on their VO2 max. When I had bronchitis for awhile my face looked like shit. When I got my lungs into peak condition again my jaw and eyes changed. Went from incel mode to chad mode. Breathing properly and having great lungs does wonders for the face.