What is the origin of dumbbells?
Let us go back in time to 1500 years ago. At that time, there were no fitness clubs, fitness clubs, and health studios. The only regular exercisers are mainly those in the church who are responsible for ringing the bell. Obviously, in the context of the era at that time, the bell-ringer needed considerable skill and strength. Therefore, bell ringers should practice their technique and physical ability to ring the bell and bells outside of working hours. Of course, a side effect is that the irregular sounds of the bells angered the residents living nearby.
The solution at the time was to make the bell silent. Taking off the bell tongue or bell tongue in the bell is the so-called “tongue cutting operation”. The problem was easily solved, but many sound bells were so cruelly turned into dumb. In the 18th century, there was a special word to describe things that are quiet, silent, and silent. This word is “dumb”. This is the word “dumbbell” that we now combine with “bell” (bells) to describe dumbbells. At that time, athletes discovered that these bells with their tongues cut had various weights and sizes, which could be used to increase muscle strength. From then on, they began to use these dumb bells that would not disturb the people as a tool for their usual physical training.
A man named Joseph Edison was the first to use the word dumbbell literally. On June 12, 1711, he wrote in an article like this: “I practiced with a dumbbell that had been cut tongue for an hour every morning… My wife and her sister knew that I had This is a habit. So they never enter my room when I am ringing the bell vigorously to exercise.”
