Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 383, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Resistance tubing

shaipnai83
shaipnai83
Posts: 30
Joined: 2003/02/01
United States
2003/06/25, 09:47 PM
What kind of difference is involved when working with dumbells rather than resistance tubing and so forth???
mikedesa1
mikedesa1
Posts: 29
Joined: 2003/06/04
Canada
2003/06/26, 06:55 PM
It has to do resistance... Say you do bicep curl with a 20 lb dumbell. The dumbell remains the same weight (20 lbs) for the entire range of motion of the curl. But using a resistance band, the resistance increases as you perform the curl. Resistance is at its lowest at the beginning of the curl, where you are weakest, and is at its highest resistance when you complete the curl, where you are strongest. I use both freeweigts and resistance bands and find that a combination gives good results.
shaipnai83
shaipnai83
Posts: 30
Joined: 2003/02/01
United States
2003/06/26, 08:55 PM
Makes sense.. thanks for the response.. :D