As a resistance band expert, I pride myself on thinking outside the box and constantly bringing in new ways to use resistance bands to challenge your body.

It’s a weekly email question.  Dave, Can you simultaneously train with bands and dead weight??

The answer is a “No Brainer”…  Absolutely.  I call it resistance band combo workouts.

When you train with bands and dead weight it causes the body to deal with both types of resistances- isotonic and elastic (or reactive).  With a traditional isotonic resistance the body has to generate enough force to get the weight moving.  Once moving a majority of work is done, especially when using total body movements.

With elastic resistance, the work comes more towards the end of the movement versus the beginning.  As a result you train the body to get strong and stable at both ends of the range as well as in the middle.

Bottom line, you will gas your body through the entire exercise which absolutely cranks up the metabolism and fat burning response.

Now… Add interval training music and you have yourself a fat burning workout unmatched by any other training tool.

I recently headed out to my local high school football field to go through a 50-10 Boot Camp Dynamite workout using a pair of Green bands that can generate over 150lbs of  resistance per band and one of my favorite 80 pound steel belted friends.

The result…  A resistance band old school workout with the new revolution of boot camp interval workout music powered by Workout Muse.

Enjoy and make sure you shoot me more question on resistance band training combo workouts.

You and your clients will not believe the feeling simple total body dead weight exercises like dead lifts, farmer walks or tire flips transform into when you combine resistance bands and Boot Camp Dynamite Powered by Workout Muse.

Keep Training Beyond the Contraction!!

Dave “The Band Man” Schmitz

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