Benefits Of Resistance Bands
Weightlifting is the backbone of fitness program. Resistance training builds muscle, strengthens bones, and improves overall endurance, speed and agility.
However, as every lifter knows that there comes a point where barbells, dumbbells and machines appear to miss the mark. At that point when such things happens, it's an ideal opportunity to switch things up, just for an occasional break in your daily routine.
Many fail to recognize the benefits of using bands in their training program because these lightweight accessories appear to be too unstable to build the real strength. The truth is that bands are a beneficial and adaptable expansion in any training program.
Bands give dynamic resistance in multiple plane of motion, act as a safe assistance for challenging lifts, and provide the extra resistance to shock your muscles into growth. If that's not enough, read the few more reasons why bands are so beneficial in your fitness training program.
Benefits of Bands:
1. Provide dynamic resistance
2. Add variety
3. Build explosive speed/strength
4. Easily modifiable for any fitness level
5. Cost effective
6. Can be used alone or in conjunction with weights
7. Take up very little space
8. Great for travel
9. Can be used virtually anywhere
10. Warm up muscles prior to training
11. Help activate and target specific muscles
12. Exhaust muscles at the end of training (burnout)
13. Force your knees outward during squats, hip thrusters, etc
14. Add stability to unsteady movements
15. Helpful for physical therapy and rehabilitative exercises
16. Add safe resistance to plyometric movements
17. Assist in stretching for better mobility
Use bands on their own to warm up, stretch, help activate the muscle to fire better during exercise, or to exhaust a muscle as finisher to your workout. Use bands on their own and add them to their favorite lifts for extra dynamic resistance.
