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I set up a home gym late last year that I've been using pretty regularly. It includes a bench and a couple dumbbell trees, going up to 25 pound dumbbells. But when I bought them, my supplier was missing a few increments in weights so I was missing some sizes. IE one tree had 15 pounds, 17.5, 22.5 and 25 pounds, but missing the 20 pound. The other just had 5 pound and 10 pound, but didn't have the 2.5 / 7.5 / 12.5. I finally went and picked them up ( turns out at this level its actually 3 pound, 8 pound, and 12, they don't start 2.5 increments till 17.5 I guess...)

So I've basically just been stuck at 10 pounds for everything that I do. I've been contemplating if I should just make the jump to 15 pounds. Like on my dumbbell bench press, I can do 20 reps for 3 sets pretty damn easily with 10 pounds. 15 pounds shouldn't be a big jump. In all my previous exercise attempts, doing barbell stuff always felt pretty trivial to make 10 pound jumps, so a 5 pound jump should be no big deal

So I finally made the switch to the new 12 pounds. I am shook by much heavier and difficult these are. I can't believe it. The difference is so small, yet they feel way heavier. 9 rep sets are very doable but I'm definitely feeling the strain. If I had jumped to 15 pounds I guess I just would have exploded.