Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Two 20kg kettlebells or one 27kg dumbbell?

My gym closed down two weeks ago so I'm doing home workouts until quarantine passes, but I'm having trouble with back and leg exercises: I have no water jugs, no decent place to mount a pull-up bar, have only been doing inverted rows under a table, bulgarian split squats and pistol squats. Which brings me to my question, I can buy two 20kg kettles or a 27.5kg DB for pretty much the same price, and I don't know what to buy.

In the gym, I was doing:

DB OHP: 20kg for ~10 reps

DB BP: 30kg for ~12

Cable tricep extension: 23kg for ~10

DB row: 30kg for ~10

DB curl: 12.5kg for ~12

I also already have 2x2.5kg and a single 1kg DB, 4 various elastic bands, and I'm going to get a wooden stick to replace a bar.

I'm thinking, with the KBs and bands I would cover the push (ohp, floor press and tricep extensions), I could do squats by loading a backpack full of books, the light DBs, and hold the KBs in front for a weird front/back/goblet squat combo. The deadlifts would be at least something with the 40kgs + resistance bands. For curls I could place some weight in a backpack, hang it off the wooden stick and curl the stick, so that would work pretty well. But the rows would be disappointing as I think 20kg might be too light to reach a decent intensity. I guess I could do very high reps with it but I'm already doing that with inverted rows...

The 27.5kg DB would be perfect for the rows, pretty good for curls, I could do single arm BP (floor press) with it, would be a little much for extensions but that's okay, however the OHP is a big problem here, as I don't know if I could do more than 2 reps at that weight. But I think I could manage with pike pushups and one arm band OHP. For deadlifts I could do them single leg and for squats I could load the backpack with about 10kg and goblet squat the 27.5kg.

Is there anything I'm missing that would be a good reason to buy one over the other? I don't know why I'm being so indecisive but I would like to hear you guys' thoughts.

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