Five dumbbells worth of weight in the footprint of one. Press, twist, click and lift, and you are at the next load, which means you can drop from 25 lb to 15 lb between sets without walking anywhere or owning a rack. For anyone training in a bedroom, an apartment or a corner of the garage, that single fact is what makes consistent strength work possible at home.

The speed of the change is the point. Drop sets, supersets and progressive warm ups all fall apart when adjusting the weight takes thirty seconds and a wrench. Here it takes about two, so the tempo of the session stays intact and your heart rate does not fall off a cliff between movements. The mechanism locks positively, with no rattle in the plates while you press or curl.

The grip is knurled and contoured rather than a bare steel bar, which matters more than it sounds on higher rep sets when your hands are the first thing to fail. Weights sit in a storage tray that keeps the unused plates together and off the floor, so the whole set stores as one tidy block. It ships with a one year limited parts warranty.

Specifications

• Weight range: 5 lb to 25 lb
• Settings: 5 weight selections
• Adjustment: press, twist, click and lift
• Included: storage tray
• Grip: ergonomic comfort grip
• Warranty: 1 year limited parts
• Sold as: single dumbbell