SQUATS with Power Blocks

[Girlwonder]

Any dumbbells, Power Blocks included, brush your legs when you do squats with them. It isn't a big deal. It's not like they gouge and gash your legs when you go up and down.

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But someone replied saying that the Power blocks tend to be too BLOCKY (that they brush off your skin) and that it was the only disadvantage....

 

[Baxter]

Big deal. They brush off your skin. Better than nothing. Use whatever you can until you have access to a power rack so that you can do your squats and deadlifts using a bar and weight plates.

I don't find Powerblocks much blockier than regular dumbells. The big disadvantage to Powerblocks aren't the fact that they are blocky. The big disadvantage is that when you are doing movements like the chest press, you can't really bang the weights together real hard. And, of course, you can't drop the weights on the ground real hard either when you are lifting heavy. The Powerblocks aren't intended to take that abuse. I don't like Powerblocks for that reason.

 

[Ulter]

I don't what you guys are calling "banging them real hard". I bang them together all the time. I have for 3 years now. I wouldn't throw them across the room but I certainly drop them on the floor. Controllingly.

 

[BigD50]

You can squat with dumbells. Just try and hold them like you were getting ready to do a shoulder press and then squat down. That way there not banging against your legs. I don't know if that's what you were asking, but...