Lifting Exercise Resistance Bands by Body Solid

Workout bands are the perfect tool for adding more variety to your workout. Bands allow you to train every part of your body with several exercises for each body part. Use exercise bands without additional weight, with free weights, you can attach them to weight machines.

Exercise bands can be used with many workout styles. Use them for:

• Strength training programs
• Hypertrophy resistance training programs
• Plyometric and agility programs
• mobility and functional movement programs

Almost everyone can benefit from a resistance band workout program. Here’s why…

Why use resistance bands?

Lifting exercise resistance bands help maximize the strength curve by increasing the resistance level where the muscle is stronger. The result is more muscle activation during the exercise set.

Why You You Should Buy Resistance Bands

A set of lifting resistance bands can be the difference maker in your strength and muscle building program.

Having resistance bands in your home gym or gym bag takes up less space than practically every other piece of equipment. However, the versatility of bands can give you more options for all muscle groups you train.

Bands are affordable! There isn’t another tool on the market that gives you these many options for this price tag.

Used By The Strongest in The World

Powerlifters have long understood the benefits of resistance bands for maximizing the strength curve. Exploding through a movement with maximum speed is how you lift more weight. Having a set of lifting resistance bands forces you to push or pull as hard as possible to overcome the growing resistance as the band stretches.

Packs a Powerful Pump

Lifting resistance bands act similarly as accommodating resistance machines where you feel a more consistent tension throughout the entire movement. When performed in a controlled fashion, this leads to more blood flow and muscle fiber recruitment at the same time under tension. Bodybuilders and gym rats benefit from bands by getting more out of the sets and reps they put in.

Helps Target Lagging Muscles

Certain muscle groups are harder to target and activate to the point of creating the mind muscle connection. Lifting resistance bands can help increase the activation of a struggling muscle, helping it to “get your attention” through future exercises and sets.

You can use this strategy to target glutes, hamstrings, calves, lats, or any other muscle that you are struggling to grow.

Quality Lifting Resistance Bands Are a Must

There are many reasons you can’t just choose any set of resistance bands to get the job done. The most important being that it can be dangerous! A cheap resistance band that snaps during the middle of the set can immediately put you in harm’s way. Less traumatic but certainly important, cheap bands can be inconsistent and create confusion as to if you are progressing or not. Finally, cheap bands and different from band to band, resulting in muscular imbalances and inconsistent measures of progress.

Light Resistance Bands

Bands with a light resistance can be used for many exercises to build muscle. They work great for heavy lifts such as the big three: bench press, squat, and deadlifts when attached to a weight loaded barbell.

Light elastic resistance also will work as stretch bands to increase mobility in the shoulders and hamstrings. They work well for retracting shoulder blades,

Where light exercise bands really come in handy is with smaller muscle group exercises. Use them for the bicep curl, tricep extension, or shoulder raise. Finally, the light bands work well for bigger muscle isolation exercises. Chest presses, glute kickbacks, and hamstring curls are perfect for resistance exercise bands.

You can add further resistance to certain elastic band exercises by dumbbell. Since the light bands are thin you can create a looped band around the handle and still for your grip for biceps curl, triceps press, and other exercises.

A little creativity goes a long way when creating a resistance band exercise program.

Medium Resistance Bands

A resistance band with mid-level tension is built for the lower body. For most people, medium tension bands will work great for the banded squat and assisted pull up. Stronger individuals can use these bands for the bench press and deadlift. They also work well for certain mobility exercises where you need more tension.

1. You can use the medium resistance band attached to your knee where you pull the hips open.
2. When looped around the back of your feet, the medium resistance band can hold your hamstring in position while performing a straight leg stretch.
3. When looping the band to a pull-up bar and hooked to your feet makes for a good quadriceps and overall leg stretch.

Strong Resistance Bands

You will not need a heavy resistance band for most traditional exercises. Only those with a lot of strength can move them through a full range of motion.

Where a Strong resistance band can help is with the “future “method” Where you are using the exercise band in the opposite direction. For example, performing a bench press with the band looped to a pull-up bar. As you lower the weight, it becomes lighter. This allows your upper body to have an advantage at the bottom of the movement.

Where it isn’t common to see the heavy band bench press, you will see the heavy exercise band used for assisted pull ups. Someone who is overweight or does not have enough back strength can use the bands to push them up out of the bottom and complete the repetition.

Another use of the heavy resistance band is to use them for isometric exercises. A forgotten yet effective strategy building muscle strength.

As you can see, the resistance band allows for many uses in a strength training program:

• They can be used on their own or to increase resistance for a free weight exercise.
• You can use the resistance band to recruit more muscle fibers in a shorter amount of time.
• You can use the future method to learn to lift heavier weights in a safer position.

Lifting Exercise Resistance Band Program

Get a free Exercise Band Workout Program when purchasing Body Solid lifting Bands. Start your resistance band training right away and watch your overall fitness improve.