Anyone use resistance bands?
seems like they can give a pretty good workout for being a little piece of rubber you can fold up and IST in your pocket
Anyone use resistance bands?
Anyone use resistance bands?
seems like they can give a pretty good workout for being a little piece of rubber you can fold up and IST in your pocket
you don't have the discipline to use them correctly.
good for rehab/prehab/stretching though.
I don't have the discipline to do anything correctly
just considering bands vs calisthenics
I'm buying a band to use for a warmup routine. Any recommended movements? Upper body or lower.
Pull aparts and shoulder dislocates or whatever the name is. It's pretty good. For lower body I don't think you need the band at all.
bendy wendies followed by pully aparties.
maybe throw in some widen tightens for glute activation so you look nice for your boyfriend
I don't have a boyfriend!
bruzzah whoever sold you the band is now your boyfriend
I just use them for a few mobility movements and stretches. But I guess if you buy the one with most resistance, you can use it to add weight to your deadlift for cheap.
yeah and you can attach a kettlebell to it and make a nice lil mace.
You'll never get any hypertrophy out of them. The resistance curve is backwards.
I used them but I got repetitive use injuries
I frick with resistance bands and calisthenics. Once I’m bigger and people ask my 1RM I’m just going to tell them I don’t know.
I got some.
I only ever used them for progressing on my pull up.
I used them to rehab a rotator cuff injury, now I use them before every workout to warm up. they're exceptionally good for training your stabilizers which are critical for maintaining your form and preventing injury. for example, try putting a medium-strength resistance band around your wrists and doing a OHP movement, keeping your elbows in and forearms vertical. increase resistance until it's a struggle, now you're training your stabilizers
Their versatility and ability to scale weight for a low cost makes them really handy to have around the home gym
More importantly, they're great for taking on trips so I don't have to rely on solely bw exercises when visiting friends and family
That being said, I still prefer using free weights over them when given the choice
Yeah. It seems like they should work but at the end of day they just don’t. If your goal is putting on muscle, anyway. Even with heavy duty bands. I tried doing some routines during the lockdown and REALLY got after it and found that doing really high rep body weight exercises was still better. Even for legs.
No they work just as good as weights as long as you use them correctly.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6383082/
>The outcomes of this systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrated that training with elastic resistance provide strength gains similar to training with conventional resistance.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5873332/
>In conclusion, elastic resistance bands induced slightly lower muscle activity in the muscles most people aim to activate during flyes and reverse flyes, i.e., pectoralis major and deltoideus posterior, respectively. However, elastic resistance bands increased the muscle activation level substantially in the deltoideus anterior in flyes, and deltoideus medius and trapezius descendens in reverse flyes
>training with elastic resistance provide strength gains similar to training with conventional resistance.
Until it doesn't. If you want basic physical competence then sure. If you want significant muscular development they will not provide the necessary tension.
>blablabla activation
There's more to it than that.
i use them to do good mornings as a warmup. step on the band and put it around the base of your neck. the resistance curve is lower at the bottom compared to weights so it's good to warm up or for active recovery on rest days.
They're underrated for travelling, especially abroad. I have a gym membership that allows access to gyms in most major cities, but if I'm going on vacation to buttfrick nowhere, gyms are not a gurantee. Easier to pack a few bands than a fricking dumbbell. Camping, too.