Why do they call them dumbbells?

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Gina Grain · Answer

Well, Ken, thank you for the question, why do they call them dumbbells? Well, back in the day, a guy named Joseph Addison was a poet and he wrote of his time weightlifting. Well, what he used were church bells with their clappers removed thereby silencing them thereby making them dumb. And thus forth the name dumbbells.

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