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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