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Last night, I did a lot lower body exercises with resistance bands. In looking at you, I now believe it's best to squat and do reverse lunges with the band anchored behind me as opposed to stepping on the band, then raisining it up behind my shoulders and upper arms.. Keeps me from leaning too forward, less stress on my knees. 😊 Thank you
If you want to anchor something to your door, make sure that you're pulling in the opposite direction that doors open - you definitely don't want to smash something (including yourself) if the latch gives up ;)
I'm a confused about the angles-of-resistance here. I'd appreciate it if anyone can clarify it. I might be missing something here. With free weights, the line-of-resistance is directly downwards, due to gravity. So you lift the weight directly against gravity (directly against the line-of-resistance). With cables and resistance, the line-of-resistance is directly along the cable or the band. So one must lift the weight directly parallel to the cable or band. One must always lift weights directly along the line-of-resistance, or else it seems pointless to even have the weight. In the deadlifts you showed, the line-of-resistance is upwards, along the band always. So it seems you're not lifting any extra weight at all. In fact, the band is actually helping you up, so you're deadlifting even less than your own body-weight. It seems more like an ab exercise at that point. I was confused about this one. In both of the lunges, it seems like you're simply lifting your body-weight. The band doesn't seem to be adding any extra resistance at all. The angle-of-resistance is directly along the band. When you do the two lunges, you're lifting your body-weight against gravity, not against the resistance of the band. Wouldn't it be more logical to anchor the band under your foot by simply standing on it, and stretching it up near your shoulders, so it actually adds extra resistance to your lunge? In that way, you'd be lifting your body-weight against gravity and against the band. I was also confused about this one. In the low calf squats and the final wide squats, it seems okay since the band is angled downwards, so you're actually lifting against the band and gravity. That's exactly how I imagined most exercises to go. Either anchored under your foot or anchored to the bottom of a door, angled downwards. Lifting against gravity and against the resistance of the bands. They have to be parallel. I'm not really confused about that. The low pull through you showed, seems absolutely perfect, since you're actually lifting the weight directly against the line-of-resistance, which is along the the band. I'm not confused at all about these. I was confused as to why you angled the band upward and horizontally during the deadlifts and the lunges. Seems a bit pointless, unless I'm missing something here. I'd appreciate it if someone explained it to me, and how the bands are actually adding resistance to the exercises. Especially the deadlifts, where the band is actually helping you up instead of add extra resistance. What am I missing here? Thanks!
Yes you're exactly right. See my comment above. The first deadlift and the forward lunge are pointless. In those two exercises the bands are actually assisting him rather than adding resistance. To place tension on the hams and posterior chain he needs to be pulling the bands up from the floor rather than pulling down from above. The only muscles he's working in that are his abs as they contract to pull the bands down, and his lats as they work to keep his arms in place against the resistance. And in the lunges the plane of resistance is again assisting him as he stands up. I don't get how he can't see this.
Hi everyone, sorry if this isn't the right place to post this, but I desperately need help. I have been lifting for a couple years now and for the second time in my lifting career, I got a shoulder injury. It all started about 2 months ago when I had gone to the gym after a heavy shoulder day. I was warming up with the bar to do bench presses and felt a weird pressure in the spot between my shoulder and my chest (right under the AC joint). I decided to take a 2 week break off of it because I knew something felt off. After 2 weeks of icing, taking advil, and doing rotator cutf excercises, I felt a bit better. I started off light, only doing back and biceps (no pull ups, pull downs, etc) and it was OK for a few days. About a week after this, I started having an aggravating pain in my shoulder again so I decided to set up an appointment with an ortho. I went to the ortho and he did nothing except prescribe me Naproxen and refer me to a PT. I took the Naproxen for ~10 days (didn't help at all) and went to physical therapy. All the PT did was have me go through a few different upper body excercises to see if I could do any of them pain-free. Just about all of them started to aggravate my shoulder so I could barely do anything. I came to the conclusion that any excercise my PT showed me I could just do at home (without paying $50 each visit..) 2 months later, I still can barely lift. I am currently at the gym right now and I can only do some light arm work with cables, and just about anything else gives me a dull pain in the front of my shoulder. Does anyone have any ideas? I've tried PT excercises, icing, medicine, etc. This has also gotten in the way of my work as I cannot type on my keyboard without feeling a sharp pain in my shoulder. The pain shifts between the front and the side of my shoulder. At this point I feel hopeless and I really hope there's a solution. Thank you
See if you are going for a body building competition that it is something which requires heavy weight training, but if are just training for being lean and muscular go with resistance bands as they are better than weights as free weights only create passive tension that helps only in developing strength but if you use resistance band you can develop both active and passive tension . Active tension is needed at the topmost point of contraction and if you see free weights are dead at top most but where as resistance band help you develop both . As you are doing cable keep doing that in combination with bands
Hey man! I’m sorry to hear you’re having this issue. I know you didn’t have a good experience with your ortho but the fact that it’s effecting your daily life now is a big problem that needs to be dealt with by a specialist. It can be a hassle getting the treatment you really need but excruciating pain like that isn’t something you want to mess around with. I recommend to go see a specialist again saying you’ve already done all these things and it’s not better and you need help. Push them and make it clear daily life is no longer optimal because of it and they should help one way or another. Best of luck 🙏🏻
With all that you listed that you tried, stretching is not listed. Cannot over emphasize the benefits of stretching. Strengthen your stabilizer muscles. Many people ignore these smallI muscles, until there is an injury and slows them down. Also, you could have a torn rotator cuff. MRI would let you know.
Why have the resistance from above during the stiff legged deadlift? Isnt that the opposite of the resistance curve? Is there something I am missing here?
I get acid reflux if I bend too much during exercise. Can you please suggest some alternate forms where it doesn't involve too much stress on the stomach area?
hey mike wanted to ask you something can these resistance bands also develop passive tension like dumbbells and does theese bands allow you to gain strength just like free weights .
This set comes with 5 bands of varying resistance, a storage bag, ru-vid.comUgkxS7ex6L4sMqpaTn4LnBPyBmRQsSingL8y a small pamphlet with some sample exercises, and an access code for an online workout video. I haven't viewed the online video, so I cannot speak to the quality of that piece of the set. However, everything else is perfect for what I was looking for. The bands are durable, and the resistance strength varies enough between bands that they're each useful for different exercises and provide a great challenge as you gradually increase the resistance level for certain exercises. The only band I don't use very often is the lowest resistance band, but even that is nice for exercises that target weaker/seldom used muscle groups.
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I've solely been using resistance bands for 12 years now, and have perfected my leg workouts with them. I can tell you that in the first three exercises, the resistance bands are not placing any extra resistance on the legs. The first one.....the ham deadlift....you're actually pulling the resistance down from above you. The only muscles that will be involved here are the abs as you bend over, and the lats to keep your arms locked in place against the resistance. As you move up again, the bands are pulling your body up. To place more resistance on the hams you have to be pulling the resistance up from your feet or there abouts. The only thing the resistance bands are doing in your version is working your abs, and making the job of straightening up EASIER for your hams. Think of a straight leg deadlift, you're pulling up from the ground. The hams are working against the downward weight/resistance. Exercise two is just as pointless. You have the band set up so the resistance is in a horizontal plane in front of you, and you're holding onto the resistance with your arms out to the front, then doing a single leg squat. How is that plane of resistance going to place any extra tension on your legs as you perform the movement? It won't, in fact it'll make it easier because the bands are pulling you forward. Again, the resistance needs to be coming from the ground as close to your feet as possible, so your legs have to push up against it. So what exactly is the resistance band doing?
Watched till the first exerceise... You are killing your back if you do it like that... Round back during "Deadlifts" !? Seriously? Most common mistake and you present it as right... No, thanks. First and last video from you.
