Fitness Resistance Bands and Exercise Tubing

Spice up your workouts with Fitness Resistance Bands and Tubing

You have probably heard about the many benefits of resistance band training. Here are just a few:

• Increase in muscle strength
• Injury prevention
• Improved bone density

When you perform resistance band training exercises your body composition will change to contain more lean tissue, thus resulting in extra calories burned while you sleep.  What could be better than that?  Resistance Band Training is truly worth your time.  Talk about an exercise that keeps on giving. 

Why You Should Try Resistance Bands:

1. They travel well. You can easily pack them in your suitcase for travel and do exercises in the car or in your hotel room.
2. They increase coordination. Because there's tension throughout the exercises, you have to stabilize your body. This helps with coordination, balance and it also helps you involve more muscle groups.
3. They add variety. With weights, you're often limited as to how many exercises you can do. But, the resistance band allows you to change your positioning in multiple ways. This changes how your body works and how an exercise feels.
4. They're cheap. Bands range anywhere from $6 to $20, depending on how many you get and where you buy them, which is nice for the budget-conscious exerciser.
5. They're great for all fitness levels. Depending on how you use them, bands can be great for beginners as well as more advanced exercisers and athletes. You can use them for basic moves or to add intensity to traditional moves.
   

Wouldn't you love to reap the rewards of a solid resistance training program by waking up slimmer every morning? I love nothing more than to see my clients achieve awesome results - clients just like you, who decided to change their shape forever by joining Fitness Solutions.

When it comes to strength training, most of people stick to the usual free weights and machines or, if they're feeling frisky, they may venture over to the cable or free motion machines at the gym. What you don't see a lot of is work with fitness resistance bands or tubing.

You may be confused about what resistance bands do and how to use them, but they're a great way to workout while you travel or add variety to your usual routine.

Some of the problems you may have with resistance bands include:

The resistance feels different. When you use free weights, gravity decides where the weight comes from, so you get more resistance during one part of the movement (such as the upward movement of a bicep curl) than the other (the downward movement). With fitness resistance bands, the tension is constant, making it feel harder.  Think of it like a cable machine or a Bow flex, it works the same way, only resistance bands are a lot cheaper.

Resistance bands aren't as challenging as machines or dumbbells.  With weights, you know exactly how much you're lifting. With bands, you can only go by how it feels and the tension on the band. That doesn't mean you're not getting a good workout. If you use good form and the right level of tension, your muscles won't know the difference between weights or resistance bands. Plus, resistance bands offer more variety, because you can create resistance from all directions--the side, overhead, below, etc.

You don't know how to use them. It can be confusing trying to figure out how to use a band.  You can perform the same exercises as you do with free weights, the only difference is positioning the band. For example, you can stand on the band and grip the handles for bicep curls or overhead presses.  You can attach it to a door and do lat pull downs or triceps push downs. You can wrap the band around a pole for chest exercises or shoulder rotations. The possibilities are endless and you'll find a number of exercises and workouts in our members only departments.

Want to see how to do these resistance band exercises and many more.  We will turn you into a resistance band training machine.

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