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    Partner Band Training will help you become a better bootcamp leader   As I was traveling the past few days I had the opportunity to listen to Tony Dungy’s new book, Mentor Leadership.  An outstanding book that I highly recommend   Upon returning to my office yesterday, interestingly one of the emails I…

Resistance Bands Make Strength Training Fun  regardless age, gender and fitness level     At least once a week I am posed the question about how to train my son or daughter using bands and in most cases all I can envision is kids being put through a grueling workout using big bands that literally…

When I started training clients and athletes with resistance bands in 1996, I was shooting from the hip to say the least.    I  knew what I wanted to achieve but to say I got instant results would be a lie.  However, over time I started to create a band training blue print that started…

 Band Training For 2012 I have spent over 15 years training and learning how to improve functional movement, strength, power, flexibility, agility, speed and quickness training with bands.  To say I have made a lot of mistakes, would be a total understatement but over time I have had a lot of success getting myself as…

   When it comes to hitting the shoulders with 1 band exercise using resistance bands, that has to be high pulls.     Band High pull not only rock the deltoids but when you use bands, you also work on getting the scapula to lock down and stabilize.  Trust me, coming from a physical therapist, that…

     Attachment FREE Big GREEN Band training is the quickest way to put your body under tension.   Why do heavy band training??   Its well known that strength training and specifically higher level resistance training can:   Increases Tendon and Ligament Strength Improves Long Bone Stability Activates the bodys Anti-aging chemicals Accelerates Fat-Burning and lengthens…

Band Resistance is no different than dead weight resistance.  There comes a time with any training tool that to make the body adapt, you have to change the resistance.  I find that when it comes to my adult bootcamp members, they fall into a rut of always using the same band resistance.   How do…

      Top 10 Best Band Exercises to get started with at home or in your Bootcamp     When it comes to implementing band training into your large group camps or training session, I have found these 10 exercises to be the Best band exercises to get started with for several reasons.    1.     They train basic…

  Jillian Michaels and Training with Bands… Watch out if they every meet!!      I am just like many of you when it comes to fitness fads in that I like to see what others are doing.   I am always intrigued with the latest and greatest fitness gadget that someone is trying to promote.   Most of…

  Core training with Bands is all about training the abs to become a deceleration of rotation, lateral flexion and extension     It has become very common knowledge that the role of the abdominals is to control movement of the spine, specifically in the lumbar spine.   It is not to move the spine but to…