Looking to spruce up your workouts? Try incorporating some Resistance Band work into your programming!
Clearly I love incorporating Resistance Bands into my workouts because they are portable, cheap, and extremely versatile. For my clients that are very new to exercise, I prescribe quite a bit of band work in the beginning of their programs for the purpose of establishing better #NeuromuscularControl and #Stability simply because it’s very hard to cheat a movement using resistance bands. Even better, elastic resistance offers many movements and directions of motion for exercises along different planes such as Frontal and Transverse which are often neglected as one becomes more sedentary over time. Not surprisingly, most athletic injuries occur in the Frontal and Transverse planes too (i.e. Rotator Cuff, Knee injuries, Groin, etc.). For me personally, in the past I’ve always had a challenging time activating my rear delts regardless of the numerous exercises I tried ranging from Dumbbells, Barbells, and Machines. It wasn’t until I began incorporating “Band Pull Aparts” where I was truly able to isolate my rear delts using elastic resistance by better stabilizing my shoulder complex (rotator cuff, rhomboids, traps, rear …