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Gymless Training Blog

Use Bands To Increase The Strength Demands Of Your Bodyweight Exercises

Alistair Ramsay - Wednesday, April 13, 2011
In the realm of bodyweight exercise, lower body movements tend to quickly become strength endurance challenges more so than strength challenges. Nothing wrong with this if you want to build up impressive stamina in your lower body muscles, but if developing greater strength is more of a priority you will need to find a way to increase the resistance you are working against (the other option is to choose a harder exercise progression!)

If you want to increase the overload demands of a lower body movement then bands can provide a lightweight, gymless solution. In the video below I demonstrate how you can use a 41 inch band to add some additional load to the reverse lunge movement. A similar set up can be applied to squats, split squats etc.




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