Archives: Exercises
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Resistance Band Side Steps
How to do Resistance Band Side Steps 1. Place the small-loop resistance band around your legs, just above the knee 2. Place your feet about shoulder-width apart with your toes very slightly pointing outwards 3. Brace your core and inhale as you lower your body, bending at the knees. Be sure to keep your chest…
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Resistance Band Leg Press
How to do Resistance Band Leg Presses 1. Lay on your back on a soft workout surface with your feet planted on the floor allowing your knees to point upwards 2. Bring one knee into your chest and loop a resistance band around the arch in your foot, being sure to hold the band tightly…
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Resistance Band Hip Thrusts
How to do Resistance Band Hip Thrusts 1. Lay on your back on a soft workout surface with your feet planted on the floor allowing your knees to point upwards 2. Hold the resistance band tightly across your pelvis so that tension is felt, and place your hands out to your sides on the floor…
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Resistance Band Clamshells
How to do Resistance Band Clamshells 1. Place the small-loop resistance band around your legs, just above the knee 2. Lay on your side on a soft workout surface with your lower arm bent at the elbow, your lower hand cushioning your head, and your legs bent at a 90-degree angle allowing your feet to…
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Resistance Band Floor Press
How to do Resistance Band Floor Presses The band floor press is a chest press done lying on the floor, with a resistance band around your upper back. The floor stops your elbows at the bottom of each rep, and the band gets harder to stretch the further you press, so the resistance is highest…
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Resistance Band Push Ups
How to do Resistance Band Push Ups 1. Get into a push-up position with the resistance band placed behind your back and laced around your hands 2. Place your hands flat on the floor slightly wider than shoulder-width apart 3. Fully extend your legs out so that only your toes and/or balls of your feet…
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Resistance Band Squats
How to do Resistance Band Squats 1. Stand on the center of one length of a resistance band and place the other length across the top of your shoulders behind your neck. You should be ‘inside’ the band 2. Place your feet about shoulder-width apart with your toes very slightly pointing outwards 3. Brace your…
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Resistance Band Hammer Curls
How to do Resistance Band Hammer Curls Band hammer curls are biceps curls with a resistance band, with your palms facing each other the whole time, as if you were holding a hammer. That grip brings in the forearms and the brachialis, a muscle under the biceps, more than an ordinary curl. 1. Stand on…
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Resistance Band Thrusters
How to do Resistance Band Thrusters 1. Stand tall and strong with your feet placed about shoulder-width apart and a very slight bend at the knee, on the center of the resistance band 2. Take a firm grip of the ends of the band with your palms facing towards you 3. Bring the ends of…
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Resistance Band Overhead Press
How to do Band Overhead Presses The band overhead press is a standing shoulder press with a resistance band under your feet. It’s the same movement as a dumbbell or barbell press, and the band is hardest to stretch at the top, where you’re strongest. 1. Stand tall and strong with your feet placed about…