Here’s what to know when deciding which weight to pick.
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Picture this: You enter the weight room of a gym, surrounded by a whole bunch of equipment. As you try to figure out which weights to pick up, you see one gym bro squatting with a pair of dumbbells, an influencer films herself squatting with a kettlebell, and a powerlifter in the corner is doing the same move with a barbell. So which is your best option?
Dumbbells, kettlebells, and barbells can all be effective tools for building strength and power. But there are nuances between each of these three free weights that can affect which one works best in different scenarios, so we asked top strength coaches to break it all down for us.
