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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9706363" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Last night I had a good session - three circuits of dumbbell bench with drop sets, dumbbell inclined curls (and actually added reps for the first time in forever) with drop sets, dumbbell skull crushers (added a little), and dumbbell seated lateral raises (also a slight increase).  Then three sets of face pulls, again going up a tiny bit in weight where I've been plateaued for a while. To the best of my knowledge the standard for logging dumbbells is the weight per-dumbbell, but anything else is total weight/resistance.  So if I'm doing anything with a barbell that's normally going to include the 45lbs for the bar itself, and if (say) I'm doing a Smith machine barbell exercise it's going to be the base 20lb resistance for that +whatever weight I load on it.  Definitely if you're logging total volume (weight x reps x sets) you're going to add the dumbbells together.  I used to track that (and came up with rough calculations for body weight exercises), so you're not alone in having geeked out on the numbers.  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😅" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f605.png" title="Grinning face with sweat    :sweat_smile:" data-shortname=":sweat_smile:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>