Affordable Home Weight Training Equipment - What to Choose and Why? (Part 2)
In Part One we talked about one particular Home Weight Training Equipment and its usefulness creating an effective exercise for the whole body.
I will continue providing you with other devices of home fitness equipment to create a great home gym.
Resistance Tubes/Bands The Resistance Bands can provide you with an unbelievable number of exercises.
They are very affordable for most people, and at the same time they take up very little space in your home.
Resistance Tubes come with different tensions from the easy-tension to the hard-tension.
Therefore, you may get two or three levels of tension when using them for different home exercises.
For example: In general, you don't need as much tension if you are performing rotational exercises to train your midsection.
However, you are probably stronger in other pull-movements such as the pull-down or rowing movements simply because you are using larger muscles that can handle more resistance.
Let me go over two exercises that you can perform at home and reap the benefits from them: Exercise One Rowing With Isometric Squat -In this exercise you will anchor the center of the Resistance Tube at shoulder height or below -Grasp the handles and walk away from where you anchored the center of the Resistance Tube so you can create enough tension to be able to perform 15 to 30 repetitions.
-Squat until your thighs are parallel to the floor or your knees are bent at 90 degrees.
-Start rowing for the desired number of repetitions while you are squatting This exercise is working your upper body through concentric and eccentric muscular tension.
And your legs are working hard through isometric tension which means the leg muscles are being contracted through the duration of the rowing exercise.
Exercise Two Lat Pull-Down This is the same exercise you would perform in the gym using the very expensive Lat Pull-Down Machine, but you are only paying a fraction of the price and getting the same benefits..
Instructions: -Anchor the center of the Resistance Tube using the door attachment that comes with it or a high post so you can either perform the exercise on your knees or standing (if it's high enough).
-Simply pull the tube handles down as low as possible by squeezing the back muscles and in particular the latissimus dorsi.
There are dozens of exercises where you can incorporate the Resistance Band to train your legs such as the hamstring muscles, add resistance during your abs workout, or follow through with the rotational exercises to work the core muscles.
I will continue providing you with other devices of home fitness equipment to create a great home gym.
Resistance Tubes/Bands The Resistance Bands can provide you with an unbelievable number of exercises.
They are very affordable for most people, and at the same time they take up very little space in your home.
Resistance Tubes come with different tensions from the easy-tension to the hard-tension.
Therefore, you may get two or three levels of tension when using them for different home exercises.
For example: In general, you don't need as much tension if you are performing rotational exercises to train your midsection.
However, you are probably stronger in other pull-movements such as the pull-down or rowing movements simply because you are using larger muscles that can handle more resistance.
Let me go over two exercises that you can perform at home and reap the benefits from them: Exercise One Rowing With Isometric Squat -In this exercise you will anchor the center of the Resistance Tube at shoulder height or below -Grasp the handles and walk away from where you anchored the center of the Resistance Tube so you can create enough tension to be able to perform 15 to 30 repetitions.
-Squat until your thighs are parallel to the floor or your knees are bent at 90 degrees.
-Start rowing for the desired number of repetitions while you are squatting This exercise is working your upper body through concentric and eccentric muscular tension.
And your legs are working hard through isometric tension which means the leg muscles are being contracted through the duration of the rowing exercise.
Exercise Two Lat Pull-Down This is the same exercise you would perform in the gym using the very expensive Lat Pull-Down Machine, but you are only paying a fraction of the price and getting the same benefits..
Instructions: -Anchor the center of the Resistance Tube using the door attachment that comes with it or a high post so you can either perform the exercise on your knees or standing (if it's high enough).
-Simply pull the tube handles down as low as possible by squeezing the back muscles and in particular the latissimus dorsi.
There are dozens of exercises where you can incorporate the Resistance Band to train your legs such as the hamstring muscles, add resistance during your abs workout, or follow through with the rotational exercises to work the core muscles.
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