Resistance bands for your tool box.

Dec 6th

" There are more pleasant things to do than to beat people up"

Muhammad Ali


WOD
Warm up with kettlebells,jump rope and bands
5 rounds
300 meters running

21 sumo kettlebell deadlift with 2-30#
21 Thrusters Kettelbell 2-30#
26 min.
increase the run next time, increase the sumo Deadlift weight, but keep the 30# for now on the thrusters. after doing 80 reps of thrusters, running seems like you are doing nothing.

Terrible Triad

1. Isolation exercises especially sitting down
2. High reps with slow tempo
3. Machines

I have always used resistance band especially when I was powerlifting in competition. These rubber stretch bands come in all sizes and resistance levels,sometimes color coded and with or without handles. You don't want the bands you get a Dicks or stores that don't specialize in sports equipment. The bands you get in Dicks or Sears have the tensile strength of over cooked spaghetti.
Good quality bands will help you warm up with the same exercise motion you will be using without body loading. Bands can be taken any where and set up for a quick workout when you are traveling. They are used often in rehab and injury pervention exercises. They are not gravity dependent, challenge full range of motion, attach to anywhere for multi-planar sessions. You can also add extra loading to dumbells, barbells, Kettlebells or reduce loading by adding to a pull up station. One of the biggest advantage to using bands is that you get constant concentric and eccentric loading in any direction. Just like music, no mater how strong you are there is a band for you.