Is it okay to do so?
Also, what if it’s connected to a machine, like a smith machine or maxrack?
On barbell, it’s becomes a bit dangerous, you don’t want to fail asymmetrically and drop the bar, it’s a lot of weight. On a smith machine, a small weight variance is no big deal, go for it.
With dumbbells, yes you can assymmetrically load, it will greatly decrease your overall power output but increase isometric demand on abs, obliques, and spinal erectors to maintain stability. For example, some people like to do lunges carrying a dumbbell on only 1 side at a time for that kind of challenge.
If you’re doing hammer curls it wouldn’t make a difference because the weight is vertically oriented. With horizontal orientation, I wouldn’t recommend because it would be off balance.
Hell of a hammer curl using a barbell!
Why would you bother doing this? What purpose are you trying to serve?
Trying to create 15lb increment with only 10lb & 5lb plates. For now I just went up to 20lb with 2x10lb plates but I wanted to know if 10+5 was advisable
Did u succeed? I have kind of a similar problem as my gym doesn’t have 2.5lbs plates, I was wondering if i could just throw a 5lbs on one side and just adjust my grip accordingly
No, I just rounded up 10lb. I increased my reps at the current weight before making the jump to +10lb, where I would start with 3-4 reps and work up.
For things like OHP this is not possible, so I’ve just been doing dumbbells there. Planning to buy change plates soon though.
Ah ok thanks a lot
