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Lonsdale Chrome Dumbell
by Tolteca
I have a long term problem with my wrist. Long story.
Short version - stupid accident, undiagnosed broken bone, torn ligaments, working with said broken wrist for six weeks, seven weeks in old skool plaster. Anyway, the result was that when the offending limb was cut free it had managed to heal well enough to avoid pinning ... but was mostly decorative. Strength and full mobility were a distant dream on the other side of lots of hard work doing the exercises the physiotherapist gave me. I was at university when this happened and the gym was free, close to halls and the bar for rehydration afterwards and with a lot of work I got my hand functional as well as decorative.
The problem is that my wrist does remain damaged and needs me to keep the muscles around it in good condition for it to keep working properly and if I fail it, it retaliates and flakes on me. So when I started full time work rather than long vacation bar jobs, I joined the gyms my companies offered and kept my wrist happy that way. Then I stopped working for the companies which offered those free gym deals and joined one nearish to me. This was a long cold wet walk in wintertime though and expensive.
So I figured, why not get the weights I use for the wrist exercises and do them in the comfort and warmth of home and in front of the telly and save the getting wet and paying far too much money to Mr Branson.
So I bought a pair of these.
I went for the 5kg weights and have never regretted the purchase.
They have lived under the sofa and have never scratched despite many close encounters with the hoover. They have been thrown into the storage cupboard and left for rather too long when I have been a naughty, lazy bunny and come back shiny and fully functional.
The rubber grips have not slipped out of my hands even when I have exercised intensively and worked up a sweat, nor have they parted company with the metal of the dumbells themselves. I bought them well over ten years ago and they still look shiny and new, despite lots of hard use.
It is important to know what you are doing with free weights as a five kg dumbell can do you some damage if you use if wrong - or drop it on your foot - so I would heartily recomemend only using these or lighter dumbells after learning from the professionals how to use them safely, properly and to the best effect.
Of course it is important keep them away from small children who could do themselves an injury with something hard and unyeilding.
But with all this in mind, if and when you do and are ready for your own set at home, or need to cancel that expensive gym subscription but still need and want to do weights, I cannot recommend these highly enough.
I bought mine from Lillywhites in Piccadilly before it became a sad shadow of itself - and got some good exercise lugging home 10kg of weights back to my then flat. As we now live in the future, Amazon will do the lugging home for you and provide a range of weights for all your needs.
The 4kg ones are a bargain at between £10-16. My 5kgs would set you back £30.42 - but that is still cheaper than a few weeks of gym membership in Central London.
You won't regret buying them and you get to use them in the warmth and comfort of your own home with your own bath products to enjoy after using them.
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