dumbbell
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The sessions included deadlifts, dumbbell bench presses, lateral bounds, resistance band drills, sprints and hurdles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025
While vests add resistance to cardio, they don’t replace focused strength-training like dumbbell or body-weight exercises, Fielding says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2025
"The dumbbell thus acts a bit like the needle on a compass, allowing us to read off the z coordinate according to its orientation," says Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024
Carrasco, 36, was lifting weights before Sunday’s game against Seattle when he set down a 50-pound dumbbell and it flipped over, landing on his pinky, Showalter said before New York played at Washington.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
That's why I'd grown up holding a stick or a ball or a dumbbell.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
Their forms match the aerodynamic shapes typical of tektites, including spheres, ellipsoids, droplets, disks, dumbbells, and twisted shapes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
For an overhead press with meager 6-pound dumbbells: “You did a lot of reps. Do you want to increase your weight?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026
“We use dumbbells like you’d use at the gym,” Porciuncula says, “not those inflatable ones or foam ones, plus weighted medicine balls, kickboards, paddles and other aqua resistance equipment.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026
The men's facility featured rows of workout platforms, outfitted with dumbbells, barbells and weights capable of going into the hundreds of pounds.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
Before that the gym here had been an old, dingy room, with a handful of mismatched dumbbells and decaying equipment that looked like it was made about a year after the wheel had been invented.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
