
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons update, which came out on the 5th of November, added a ton of new stuff to the game. We've already covered a lot of it, from gyroids to cooking, but one of the cool new features is the ability to engage in some of the activities your villagers do, like dusting, reading, and carrying drinks.
Most of these new items can be obtained either through Redd's raffle on Harv's Island, or bought from Nook's Cranny. But did you know about the tiny dumbbell you can get, too?
The dumbbell is sent to you through the mail after taking part in the group stretches 20 times — which means that people who've been doing them more or less every day since the update will have their dumbbell by now.

It comes in six colours: black, white, red, yellow, gold, and silver, but the colours can only be accessed through Cyrus for 1,000 Bells. When you "use" the item by pressing A, your character will lift the dumbbell up and down. Isn't that cute?!
But that's not all — there are actually 11 rewards for stretching, including seven reactions. So if you're not already doing the stretches... get to it!
Have you received any of the rewards for stretching yet? And, be honest — have you been doing the stretches properly? Let us know in the comments.
[source reddit.com]
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I wonder if Tom Nook will accept payments in dumbbells...
Lockdowns will never impede your workout schedule again.😎
Get swole on the SW:OLED
I was really looking forward to doing the stretches but i forgot it was even a thing due to my Happy Home Paradise addiction
Removed - trolling/baiting
After 1,000 reps, the arm should double in size and you should gain the ability to bust open neighbor's doors, even when they're sleeping or not home.
@SonOfVon workout culture is a double-edged sword, but I don't think this iteration is harmful, it's just another activity like fishing or listening to music with other villagers.
If this mechanic actually added muscle definition that makes you more "attractive" and if NPCs treated you more favorably because you're "fit" then that would be quite the wrong message. It's not a bad thing to implement activities like stretching and lifting small weights because they don't really offer benefits in the game, it's more about the experience and being able to immerse yourself into the world of your neighbors.
@Mayor_Lilith They are absolutely not stupid, it's a valid issue that media outlets promote people that identify as women need to be perfectly sized and beautiful all the time while men don't need to maintain hair or makeup and can pretty much wear whatever they want and still be considered attractive. It's become such a problem that even with perfect hair and makeup, people still use image filters on top of all that because they compare themselves to the "beautiful" people you see on TV and movies. No human should feel that in order to be accepted that they need to literally buy into the culture of being beautiful all the time, especially when these norms are absent for male-identifying people.
It may not exactly be applicable here since it's just a seemingly harmless game activity, but please don't dismiss the core issue. You say more female-identifying people are working out more than ever, but are they doing that because they want to be healthy or are they doing it because they feel social pressures repeated by the media?
@Astral-Grain wow there comment got removed quick
Finally, I can engage emotionally with my fitness-crazy villagers.
@Astral-Grain it's a game 🤦♀️ how about not read THAT deep into it. Next they will be complaining about the "male" villagers having on a dress 😑 oh. I forgot that's already been a problem. And yeah, that was a stupid thing to say 😅 it amazes me how some people can survive without using their brains
Does anyone know if the update changed golden tools or tools in general to not break by some method? Or if there is some feature from Katrina that protects your tools from not breaking? I had her read my fortune the other day and she mentioned something really wacky about my tools being unbreakable. I was a bit taken a back and really didn't understand what she was going on about
Do you even lift?
@Mayor_Lilith If you don't want to talk about social issues you either don't believe or are ignorant of, you shouldn't create an account just for the purpose of calling those people stupid.
You invited yourself into this discussion and you are free to leave just as easily.
Make sense. Villagers could lift weights already, so it wouldn't be too much work to make our characters models do them too.
Now we just need to be able to eat and drink things or smell flowers and our full assimilation with the animal villagers will be complete.
@DevinRex can already drink things and there's a smelling reaction
Dang, I pretty much ignored the stretches. I’ll have to get on that.
Cool! I mostly use resistance bands irl but this is close enough.💪😤
I take it that everything villagers could do and hold we now have access to.
I will do Para Para dancing in ACNH.
Sure beats actually working out.
@UmbreonsPapa All I know is that with Katrina's luck with belongings your tools won't break that day.
Is there a way to use the broom outside like the villagers do?
@Papaia That's probably what it was, lol
@CodyMKW This is true, I am able to drink things. In fact, I'm drinking a cold glass of H2O right now. Heh heh.
Jokes aside, this is good. One more step closer to assimilation amongst the villagers.
@Papaia there's not. There's no way to hold a sandwich / donut around and eat it either if I recall.
@DevinRex Oh, there is! Donuts, ice cream, magazine and book. Those are the ones I remember that you can get from Redd at Harv's Isle. Couldn't find the broom nor the sandwich yet.
@Papaia Dang... I didn't know that. Its been a while since I've been playing some new horizons. I need to get back in there.
Hmmmm random question then, can you squirt flowers with the spray bottle yet? One of the things I've always found adorable to see villagers doing, but feel it won't be a thing, since 1. You can just use the watering can. and 2. I think it's unbreakable, which would I guess defeat the point of the watering can (though I suppose the trade off is being able to only water one flower at a time vs 5-6)
@Astral-Grain It. Is. A. Game. What part of that do you not get 🤣 stop bringing real world problems into a freaking game 🤦♀️
@Mayor_Lilith Maybe there are better ways to use your time instead of replying to something I said a week ago. Let it go. I will do the same.
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