Figuring the cost of your dumbbell

So what’s all of this going to cost? The answer depends on how fancy you want your weights to be. Dumbbells cost about $.50 to $2 per pound ($150 to $300 for the women’s set and $300 to $600 for the men’s), depending on which part of the country you live in, where you buy them, and whether you catch a good sale. Hexagonal dumbbells (called hexes or hex heads) tend to be less expensive. Plastic-coated dumbbells are cheaper, but the plastic tends to rip over time.
Liz once owned a pair of dumbbells that started to leak; every time she pressed the dumbbells overhead, a few grains of sand fell in her mouth or eye. The most expensive dumbbells are the shiny chrome ones with contoured handles. You can see your reflection in the ends of the top-drawer ones. You find chrome dumbbells in ritzier health clubs and in home gyms that try to emulate ritzy health clubs.