FOUR WEEKS: THE STRONGEST YOU
FREE WEIGHTS AND KETTLEBELLS AND PULL-UP BARS ARE ALL STELLAR PIECES OF EQUIPMENT.
But name a more portable and lightweight tool – that’s still powerful enough for a full-body sweat – than a mini resistance band. We’ll wait.
Is that crickets we hear? Thought so. The band, arguably one of the most underrated strength-training modalities, creates constant tension that increases as you stretch it, says personal trainer and iFit instructor Kelsey Sheahan. It also adds quality to movement. Do a squat with DBs and you may not notice your knees falling inward, she says. “Add a band above the knees and you have a feedback loop of where your form needs improvement.”
To that point: resistance band training was not only deemed a; it also causes muscle fibres to fire even harder than they do with free weights, possibly due to the instability you’re fighting with a band.
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