My experience is there are no short cuts!!! I have seen so many “attempts” and queer dumbbells (e.g. metal at the ends, hollowed out to suit a sausage
) and when you some day enter a trail, you can’t use any “tricks”.
Since you just started training with the dumbbell you have all opportunities to do it right from the beginning:
http://www.rottweiler.net/forums/sho...ght=retrieving http://www.rottweiler.net/forums/sho...ght=retrieving
Do a “retrieving” search and you will find lots of other threads.