With so many calisthenics equipment, why should you choose elastic bands?

There are many fitness equipment, but for novices, the available equipment is still limited. Due to the basic reasons of fitness, blindly choosing some training equipment may not achieve the expected results.

In fact, most parts of the body can be trained through freehand training, and many novices start with freehand training.

Elastic bands are a very good training tool. Strength training of all muscle groups in the body can be carried out through elastic bands. Here are 5 reasons why we recommend elastic bands so much.

1. High cost performance

Compared with dumbbells and other equipment, elastic bands are cheap and widely used. Dumbbells can only give you a downward force of gravity, while the force of elastic bands Can go in all directions. Therefore, elastic bands are much more cost-effective.

2. Easy to carry

The elastic band is lightweight, so you can carry it with you. If you don’t want to stop training when traveling or on a business trip, you can bring an elastic band to the hotel for training. .

3. Training a wide range of muscle groups

Elastic bands can simulate the training effects of almost most equipment, and there is nothing you can’t imagine. From chest muscles, abdominal muscles, back, buttocks, legs and other major muscle groups of the body, all can be trained with resistance bands.

4. Many variations and wide uses

Elastic bands can give you more weight (increase the difficulty), and can also reduce the difficulty of your exercise.

Example of increased difficulty: When doing push-ups, adding an elastic band can increase the difficulty of the push-ups.

Example of difficulty reduction: When you are unable to complete the pull-up exercise, adding an elastic band can help you reduce your weight, help you complete the pull-up exercise, and allow you to complete the exercise step by step.

So, in terms of breadth of movement, resistance bands are the biggest.

5. More variable muscle stimulation

When we use an elastic band, we will fix one end and then pull up the other end to increase the muscle load through elasticity, thereby achieving training effect.

Because one end is fixed, the force exerted on the muscles by the elastic band changes and changes with the angle of the movement trajectory. For muscles that are accustomed to vertical gravity, this is a new stimulation force that is beneficial to muscle growth, but dumbbells are different in that their force is always vertical downward gravity.