Recommedations for adjustable DBs

Something like this. The cheaper the better. And with a minimum weight of 50lbs, the higher the better.

Please and thank you.

Why not get the screw on kind - less likely to break, cheaper, and you can keep adding on more weight as you need it.

I know they aren't quite as handy if you are doing short rest periods and need to switch back and forth between different weights... but all the dial-a-weight ones I've seen are wicked expensive in comparison - probably cheaper to buy two sets of the screw ons.

Touché. That's a good idea too. I've never had to buy weights before, so I'm not even sure what's cheap or expensive.

When we were putting together our home gym, we looked at the different options, and the screw on kind (I think CAP is the brand that we got) made so much more sense than the others. The idea that the little mechanisms inside the dial-a-weights could just snap, and then we'd have a really expensive paper weight... not appealing.

The original set was about 50 or 60 bucks for 2 20lb dumbbells (including the weight of the handle), and we bought 8 10-lb plates to go on it, and we can use the 10lb plates alone for certain exercises - they are pretty comfortable to hold, as opposed to the olympic weights, which didn't have the holes along the edge.

I think you can get dumbbells that are olympic sized if you want to use the same weights as you use for your barbell (assuming your barbell is olympic) but at the time, the startup cost was more than getting the different sizes (I can't remember, but I think there wasn't a standard barbell for sale).

How about olympic dumbell handles.  This way if you decide to expand your weight set to include an olympic bar, it's all interchangeable.

http://www.pacillo.com/detail.asp?product=288

Maybe better picture, sold individually here on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FZZ3DE