Before you do anything, bookmark this page! It's the ultimate guide to the most effective dumbbell moves. Along with getting strong, weight lifting is key for losing fat and building lean, sculpted muscles, so add these moves to your workout routine three to five times per week. Paired with a healthy diet in a calorie deficit, you will see results with consistent weight work.
You can mix and match these moves to create your own arm workout, a booty-blasting routine, or a full-body home workout. Or work out with one of the 30 Class FitSugar videos — which incorporate these moves — that we've included at the end of this collection of dumbbell essentials.
This 20-minute workout will raise your heart rate to burn serious calories while toning and strengthening your entire body.
This strength-training workout will increase your heart rate and tone your entire body. Each exercise is 25 reps, so take breaks as needed and know that you can build up to it!
In only 20 minutes, you can work your entire body and rev your metabolism. We will keep you moving while adding lean, calorie-burning muscle to your frame. Just grab a set of five-pound dumbbells.
You need to build some muscle to boost your metabolism, and this total-body workout will do just that.
Tone your entire body with this mix of cardio, bodyweight, and dumbbell exercises from LA-based celebrity trainer Jenn Glysson.
Strength training builds metabolism-boosting muscle and burns even more calories after your workout as your body recovers and repairs itself. This workout from trainer Autumn Calabrese builds on this principal by adding isometric holds to strength-training moves.
Tone every inch of your body with this full-body cardio Pilates workout with Lisa Corsello, founder and owner of Burn Pilates.
Maximize your sweat session by mixing cardio with strength training. This combo burns calories while building metabolism-boosting muscle, and we call that a winning combo. Try this tried-and-true workout for yourself with this 30-minute cardio boot camp.
Celebrity trainer and Barry's Bootcamp instructor Astrid Swan McGuire created this 20-minute scorch session that works every muscle in your body.
Make the most of your next sweat sesh with this 20-minute metabolism booster that keeps your heart rate up to burn calories while building lean muscle.
Burn some fat and sculpt some muscle with Jeanette Jenkins, aka The Hollywood Trainer, whose clients include Pink and Alicia Keys. This 30-minute workout mixes cardio with strength training for the ultimate sweat session.
Feeling a little low-energy? Like can't even get off the floor? We totally get it, but you can still work out. We created this quick 10-minute floor workout for days just like this. You might be surprised by how much you can work your muscles on the floor!
Autumn Calabrese, creator of the 21-Day Fix, shortened her signature Dirty 30 Workout just for us. It may only be 15 minutes long, but every second is designed to tone you all over while keeping your heart rate up.
We've long admired Jake DuPree's legs, and now we have the secret sauce. It's a vigorous 30-minute lower-body workout!
Barry's Bootcamp trainer Allie Cohen keeps things moving by mixing strength training with cardio moves in this eight-exercise circuit workout.
Get ready to work your entire body in 30 minutes! You'll love these effective moves!
Grab a set of weights and get ready to work your entire body, in just 20 minutes — warmup and cooldown included. We stack the circuits in this sweat session, adding a new exercise to each round. It keeps it interesting, not to mention challenging!
We're bringing you Pilates Platinum founder Heather Dorak's cardio Pilates workout! It's a kickass workout that, along with raising your heart rate to burn some calories, focuses on the abs.
Here's a 10-minute workout to tone your arms with extra focus on the triceps.
This 30-minute workout keeps you moving, mixing cardio moves with weightlifting to maximize your metabolism. To burn those 300 calories, you're going to have to push yourself. But we know you're up for the challenge!
We like to think of this workout as a two-for-one! We're going to work your abs and arms with a bunch of multitasking moves that target both areas and more.
It's time to work those arms to tighten and tone the biceps and triceps while sculpting shapely shoulders, too. This is the ultimate workout for strong and sexy arms.
This workout is perfect for getting a bigger, stronger booty, as well as toning whatever assets you've got.
We're big fans of Demi Lovato, and after working out with her trainer, Kim Glass, we're big fans of her, too. As a former Olympian — she won silver playing indoor volleyball — Kim knows a lot about working out the entire body efficiently and effectively. Grab a set of medium weights and two towels to use as gliders (or paper plates if you're working out on carpeting).
Celeb trainer Idalis Velazquez keeps you moving and inspired for this 10-minute workout! It's full of killer combination moves that strengthen your abs from all angles while getting your heart rate up to torch calories.
There is no time to get bored in this quick-paced, 45-minute workout with Jake DuPree.
This at-home workout will leave you dripping with sweat and toned all over. Plus, you keep moving throughout the 30 minutes to burn serious calories while building metabolism-boosting muscles.
This quickie five-minute workout, created by celebrity trainer Astrid McGuire, will burn out your biceps and triceps to sculpt arms you will want to show off, no matter the season.
Sculpt lean, strong legs with a short and challenging workout. This 10-minute video combines strength training with plyometrics to tone your lower body while blasting calories.
Here's a 30-minute fat scorcher created by Becky Jennings, founder of the Balance Method.
With this 20-minute workout, trainer Christine Bullock will lead you through a full-body workout where every move is designed to work multiple body parts at once.
No one move will make back fat disappear — decreasing the overall percentage of body fat is key for that. But keeping your upper back and the area around your shoulders toned and tight will help diminish that pesky bra bulge, so try this 10-minute workout.