The past few weeks we’ve been looking at how to exercise from home. This week we thought we’d focus on weight training. An inexpensive way to start your own weight training program from home is with the use resistance bands. They allow you to do many exercises you can do on an expensive piece of equipment at the gym. You will see these exercise bands for sale everywhere – in fitness stores, local gyms or on infomercials.
Here are some reasons to consider using these bands for your workouts:
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Resistance bands increase coordination. Since resistance bands create tension throughout the exercise, you have to stabilize your body. This will help you increase your coordination and balance and it will also help you involve more muscles than if you where using plain free weights.
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Exercise bands are made for all fitness levels. Whether you are strong or not so strong, flexible or inflexible, a beginner or a more advance exerciser, resistance bands come in many sizes and strengths organized by color. You can learn to use them for basic exercises or to add to the intensity of traditional moves.
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Resistance bands add variety. With free weights or machines you are limited to what you can do with the weights and how you lift weights. Adding resistance bands will allow you to change how you position yourself in many different ways, which will affect how your body works and how each exercise feels.
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Exercise bands are inexpensive and portable. One of the biggest reasons to get exercise bands for your workout is they are cheap compared to machines and heavy free weights. Since resistance bands come in different weights, you can buy stronger strengths as you become more adept at using them. They are also fairly light and can do the same job, if not better, than free weights. Finally, they are easy to pack to take on a trip.
You can consult a fitness expert to learn more about the types of exercises to do with resistance bands – and get started today!
Rebecca
