Bands: Buy Their Versatility

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Most of the topics in this blog do not need long explanations. The chat on bands represents one of those topics. For one, they are self-explanatory:

They're bands. They apply resistance. When performed with proper form, bands apply resistance on the lift, the hold, and descension. Or, as we specialists, coaches, trainers, and therapists, call it: the concentric, the isometric or iso, and the eccentric.

Mini Bands. Best Usage: When wrapped around your wrists, wrists coupled with dumbbells as in a dumbbell press, legs, ankles, or feet.

Power Bands. Best Usage: When wrapped around barbells or grabbed in squats and lunges, upper back for exercises like serratus presses or resisted push-ups, straight bars for assisted pull-ups.

Therabands. Best Usage: In rehabilitation. They're also good to use in rapid or controlled movements over longer ranges of motion such as in kicking.

Resistance Tubing. Best Usage: With shadow boxing, lateral walks, upper body band pull outs, rapid pulls, rapid presses, kicking, and isolated shoulder girdle work.

Then again, you can use these bands for crazy and unorthodox lifts and resistance. But, those movements are not for the faint of heart. 

Much success to you | Derek | @teemptraining | derekteempt@gmail.com