First foray into weights training!

So, after my first lesson of dumbbells complex workout last Saturday with Bear as my coach, I’ve decided to go ahead with my plan of trying out this workout at home, and if I can maintain the self discipline to do it every alternate day after work at home, I will cancel my gym membership with Fitness First.

And so, I started looking out for adjustable rubberised dumbbells set.  I was looking online, but couldn’t find a proper one that gives me exactly what I wanted.  And today since I was on half day and already ran my errands by 2pm, I decided to shop for them at the physical sports shops.  I went to Lian Seng (at Marina Square), and asked if they have dumbbells sets.  They do, but apparently they only have it for chrome plates.  I can’t really use chrome dumbbells because that’s really gonna kill the tiles in my room, something which my mom will definitely not be happy about.  The guy then suggest that I buy separately in that case.  They have the handle bars, and they have rubber weight plates.  But that isn’t gonna come cheap.  The bar itself cost about $27.85, and I need two.  So that’s about $56 gone.  And for the weight plates, a 1.25kg rubber plate cost $7.95…

But then the good part about this is that I can really be flexible about what weight I wanna take on.  Since now I’m still very new to this, just the bar itself is enough training for me as it weighs about 2kg each.  And it’s never really about the weight, but more of form and endurance training.  What’s the point of me buying one whole set but I won’t be touching the heavier weight plates until a year later or something?  So I decided to just buy the bars and train with them first.  So yeah, I got my “weapons”, and I bought an exercise mat from Watson’s, and I’m good to go!  The only problem is I’m still not quite sure about my form, but I’m sure Bear will correct me this Saturday.  I’m so relieved that he’s around to help me!

Now I need to get a case for these bars and future weight plates, coz my mom is already worrying about these bars rolling and falling off the cabinets and onto her precious floor… :|