The good thing about bands is that when I drop one on my foot I don't break my toe.

I purchased a set of bands 2 weeks ago and this guy is right. I get a better burn, my form is more consistent and I’m sore in places that were never sore before. With bands you need to forget numbers. What I mean is say I can bench press 180lbs and progress towards 200lbs. You can measure progress by the number of pounds. With bands it’s more difficult, but not impossible to chart your progress. I personally workout to failure. I go by my feeling rather than my band or weight number. I have been impressed with the bands so far and I love their portability. I’m sold on them.

Another advantage to bands: totally effective in a zero-gravity environment. Bands endorsed by NASA. ;-)

Your muscles don't know the difference. All they know is resistance is keeping them from moving the object

The main benefit of the band is injury prevention. They allow you to maintain an exercise regimen forever without having to take time off for rehab. The only time off you will have from bands is recovery from sore muscles

Bowflex have been saying it for decades. This is the evolution I love it.

True story: I started using heavier resistance bands back in 2010. Before then, I could never curl 45 lbs dumbbells. I used resistance bands with the equivalent of 50 lbs of resistance, working my way upward from the heaviest resistance Bollinger brand resistance bands, which is about 30 lbs of resistance. Less than a year after I started using heavy resistance bands, I was in a Modell's Sporting Goods store, and decided to pick up a 45 lbs dumbbell. I was able to curl it for 10 reps. Resistance bands really do build strength

For those of us trying to be fit at home, bands are fantastic. They're fairly cheap and take very little space. A lot of people think they need a big all in one machine- both costly and space consuming. Mini bands weren't discussed in the video, but another benefit for them in particular is that since they are so portable, you can really use them to put activity into your whole day. In my view, for most people, the greatest contributor to gains in fitness after nutrition is the overall activity of the day, so it's key to have something you can use passively, or even actively work in some light sets to keep the body activated. My latest conception of an optimal home gym for beginning fitness is in this order: 1. Pullup bar 2. Jump rope 3. Bands (mini and full size) 4. Kettlebell(s) 5. Adjustable dumbbell I didn't follow this order. Just a look back at the order I feel these tools would have been most useful. My kettlebells were first in actuality, and that may have been key for me- I enjoy moving with them and the rest is just to help me more effectively balance workouts centered on the kettlebell. The moral of that aside is, another implication of the video that isn't fully expressed, but beneficial to the more casual audience is, everyone has a way they like to move. This country (USA) would be more fit if more people would try more different tools and methods to find their way. Cutting past perceptions that certain tools are for other people before trying them is a rite of passage to a more mature use of the gym.

Love your attitude towards bands. I've been using them for over 10 years and because I am 60 I feel they are much easier on my joints than free weights for certain areas (especially shoulders). You have provided some ways of using them for other body parts that I hadn't thought of before. Much appreciated!

I'm a truck driver and bands would work way better for me living in a semi truck

Gyms are such a huge business that band effectiveness have been silenced...

Weights are attractive to males because it can be used to flex their ego. "Look how much weight I can lift!" "I got more weights on my bar than you do" Iron is sexy as it's a visible sign of power(machoism) but it's hard to be macho by saying you can stretch a band. It's all about aesthetics for males, we only want to use or go with what looks attractive. I prefer bands simply because I can use them at home or anywhere and I don't have to pay for gym membership, to me that's attractive.

Well it worked in the late 1800's through earlier 1900's. Humans haven't changed so it shouldn't amaze that it still works now.

OMG, just found my new trainer as I'm exercising outside, I don't want to lug weights. Finally, someone who makes sense. Keep up the good work.

This guy is so cool. Hes such a good teacher! Ive watched so many various workout videos and James is by far my favorite trainer. So glad hes around giving us this valuable knowledge! Please keep it up....i eagerly await your new videos!

I worked out with bands Thursday and I'm still sore Saturday. Best workout I've had in a long time

Extremely informative, brother! I, myself, have started training with bands recently, and I’m convinced you can be a pro bodybuilder using only bands! Thanks for the video, and keep up the great work!

I agree with you James regarding the use of RESISTANCE BAND I'M 74 YEARS OLD AND I SWITCHED TO RESISTANCE BAND and I FOUND IT BETTER THAN FREE WEIGHT AT MY AGE

That was a great video. I like bands because of the 100% resistance and they will maintain and enhance your physique and their cheap and you can do your workout at home

I so appreciate the in-depth analysis of bands... and all of the videos the bpi team puts together. I started using smaller bands for warm ups but I can see the benefits of longer ones for full workouts.

I love bands. Been using them for a year now and always get a burn/ pump. And get sore the next day. Free weights you end up with tendonitis. Bands are what I use

This is been my second week with resistance traing with bands been feeling pumped and solid since I started

In one video you've completely changed my mind about bands .good job

Why this video isn't having least a million views is beyond my thinking. What a great comparison and scientific analysis of every aspect,here you go with a new subscriber 😊

I’m a well tester and flowback operator in the oilfield I spent 85% of my time on location I don’t have time to go to the gym vans work great for me besides talking up I’ve lost about 30 pounds and I finally went to the gym for the first time in about four months and was even really able to bench press 245 no problem ... I was skeptical I’d always been the freeway but I believe bands are the way they lease if you’re in my line of work and you don’t have time to go to the gym ... i’m also type one diabetic and has been very helpful for my diabetes thanks !!!!!!!!!!

I just love how you don´t get injured as easily and that you can workout wherever you want. I love to do my workouts in the nature.

Thank you james for keeping me motivated

90% of my fitness routine is bands. It works, my physique I had in college is still there. There’s no question, it works.

Love it! Been saying to my clients for years, many ways to the top of the mountain! Great vid

The problem is that every person who advocates bands built their body using weights in the gym. I like using bands myself but I am always waiting for them to snap. And don't let them kid u in believing that they don't snap. I would love to see someone build their body to competition level just using the bands. I think I might start documenting my progress using the bands and my other home equipment. Just a note for those who want to slap me with a wet towel.. not knocking James at all. I am getting a lot of good tips from his vids.

Personnally , i did boxing for couple years . I hate free weight for mobility loss . I HAVE discover band with bodylastics and now i love them.

Tremendous video ! I really appreciate your work and efforts to help give understanding to bands .I am a certified personal trainer and right now I am incorporating them into the workouts I am resigning for my clients .thanks

That was awesome, I'm hoping you could demonstrate a full workout using bands in a future video.

Wow. So many useful informations and logical explanations. Awesome video! 💪👍

best thing ever for joints and LB pain

Very good video comparing the two and showing why bands are extremely effective with many advantages.

What a fantastic episode!! Very clearly explained, thank you

Thanks a lot...your video was very helpful....you really explained the advantages of using band very clearly man....

Very informative video with great explanations. Thank you!

Great video, thanks for posting this!

Good informstion. I Love the Bands, the key are Reps...Try to do a set for one minute strait with even a low resistant band, you'll set your muscles on fire.

That was really good video - thank you - please keep them going :)

Thank you SO MUCH James!!! This solved my question!! I just started using purely BANDS and I saw the progress crazily! No CHEATING!!

Awesome, and hugely informative video! Subscribed! I use free weights, machines, and bands and I love learning about it all. It only helps me design better workouts for myself.

Thank you!! Finally someone with some intelligence with bands!! Majority of what I do and of course bodyweight.

This is such a great video, I'm glad I found it as its really informative and educational. I've cancelled my gym membership as I haven't been in months. I used to just use free weights so now im going to start using bands exclusively at home. I've only just discovered your videos so hopefully you have some more about how to make the most of them and build muscle. Thanks x

I actually found out about James from when he did a challenge with bodylastics bands with muscle and fitness raw. Good to see he's sticking to his beliefs and it wasn't just a promotional tool haha

Thank so much for the great content . I will start using bands now 👍👍

Very informative. Well done guys!!

James Great work I think you need to make a video on a complete bicep/tricep/shoulder workout for bands or how to gain mass muscle so we can all learn and really understand when you said "i can maintain my body using just bands"

This was a super informative video. Thanks :)

!Bands will make her dance! ✌😜

Excuse the paragraph but I am a HUGE fan of bands & your video is hands down the best explanation on you tube: What a perfect breakdown of how good bands are, I've been using bands for 6 years now & honestly they saved me after I developed Tennis Elbow when I was in the best shape of my life where I worked super hard to get to. I was so limited in the gym that I ended up turning to bands due to the negative weight from weights triggering elbow pain but not with bands!. I gained some of that muscle back before my elbow surgery and now Im just strengthing my whole body thru bands so that I can oneday do weights again but no heavy stuff plus i'll take them with me to the gym because you can always add them to any workout. My question is what is the difference with those bands you have there & the bodylastic bands I use ? Mines have hooks so I hook them to Handles, Ankle Straps, Tri Bells hook up is awesome for tricep, Lat bar, Push down curl bar, Pulley back bar, I just bought larger hooks at home depot and use the same motions I used at the gym at home with bands, a bench and The Bodylastics ultra door anchor that lets you hook the bands as high or low as you want without even opening the door lol

Great informative video, ive been going to the gym 40 years nearly and have just got into bands, recently had a carpul tunnel opp and not been to the gym for 6 weeks, and i dont know now if i will go back, I'm totally enjoying using these bands and learning the exercises. Thanks for your information

Love your honesty bro. Digging the shoes.

Dumbells for lower half of bicep curl, resistance bands for upper portion of curl. You could even use them together so when the dumbell begins to get easier as it moves up, over and closer to the body, the resistance band begins to get more tense and maintains the resistance that has disappeared as the dumbbell gets closer to the body.

Fantastic video. Really interesting and educational.

I bought a set of bands yesterday, for $8, biceps curls, triceps extensions, and shoulders presses have an amazing contraction and better burn. I’m doing sets of 15-20 reps. The bands seems a bit more challenging due to the stabilization muscles. I believe one can cut their body up by using bands.

Good thing I found out about resistance bands because I was planning to switch from calisthenics to free weights. But now I'm gonna go for resistance bands.just ordered one online... thanks for the informative contents...

you earned a sub good sir. I hope to find some more res-band related work out on your channel.

I started training only using bands, swimming and calisthenics for my last fight and put on 7lb of muscle (target weight gain btw) in my 3 month weight gain during my training camp. My punches and kicks felt crisper after using bands instead of weights so I'm a huge fan

Bands for me is like a portable weights. There are times we can't always access the gym.

Awesome video, I been waiting for a KZfaq trainer to do such a video for a while. Thank you so much James 👍👍👍👍 please do more videos like this thanks

You are my motivation mate, I love resistance bands, best excersises

that's a subscribe mate, well said and informative, really love your narritive

Excellent job bro! Great informations.

used bands this week for the first time, found it very good especially working on shoulders ,

Excellent explanation .

Very informative!! Trying to get a doable program for me and my daughter who is wheelchair bound with Lupus but has a desire to workout! Thanks

Thank you for this! Can you give a workout routine just for resistance bands?

Great video, thanks

Great learning video!

This is your year. Congrats.

Great video ! Must say how pleasantly surprised I am by the bands I’ve bought ... and how bloody hard I find them 😂

Great video and explanation

Love to see you do a travel series James,.... how to workout when your on the road, ...stop in different places in the big black car and interview some others on the way

This guy is amazing , I learned a lot from him about resistance bands.

Oh! Now I understand why I always feel it more in the biceps when I use bands. I have problems getting a burn with free weights!

Very informative video...strange question what kind of shoes were those I definitely want to get a pair.

For me, Being able to take decent resistance *anywhere* outweighs any advantages freeweights have. Yes its not 1:1 but you cant take up to 175lbs* with you in your backpack. I always struggle with consistency, but with my bag o' bands i now have no excuse to not find some time for a work out. The versatility and utility has revolutionised the way i approach exercise. *relative to extension ofc

Subbed, well done and thanks!

Great video awesome info

That was very informative thanks

I use band for knee exercises and found very very good results.Also do some gym workouts to keep myself fit

Bands are awesome. Great video, man

I love it, I exercise anywhere, anytime, beautiful, thank you

I was going to the gym lifting etc but I found the slightest error in technique resulted in back pain or joint pain. I’ve since quit but built a callisthenics gym in my home, using that and resistance bands now and I haven’t felt any pain, I’m more flexible and mobile and most importantly I’m fitter. This stuff does work. Your body muscles don’t know the difference only that they have to work. Your body knows the difference because suddenly it doesn’t have 90kg or whatever trying to compress your spine or knees. Conclusion. Not for body builders, excellent for athletes or development of a strong/toned physique 👍🏻

A excellent video. Share this information with everyone

Said part 1, where is part 2? Great information, intelligent.

Great videos about bands! Bands are super convenient and support increased flexibility. As you get older flexibility and range of motion becomes more important. Plus, bands just help you knock out a workout quickly wherever you’re at. When I was in college and in my early twenties I had lots of free time to work out 90 minutes etc. I don’t have that kind of time anymore and want to stay strong and feeling good. To get massive arms and a massive chest you’re going to need to lift heavy free weights but 90% of people aren’t trying to get huge.

Well said 👍🏻.. Thank you..

1/You don't always need to attach the band to structures..you can can wrap around your back, shoulders, head, legs.... 2/You can alter your leverage mid-set; begin curls with a band in your hand..if it gets too "heavy", slide the band up to the wrist or forearm, and you can do more reps or time. 3/ You can wrap the band around the inner elbow for single-joint shoulder, chest, back moves. 4/ You can do a hybrid isometric-isotonic exercise: Ex: a/Use a band you can only curl 1/3 of the curl's range. b/Maintain maximum tension/effort while you bend your legs to complete the curl. It's not cheating, it's tough!

Amazing!

Great video, but this is actually one rare instance i wish someone would recommend a product/brand. Which bands? Bc i have owned bands they break. Which brand / type would you recommend?

Just found your video. I am a female with an interest in the doing resistance band work out. So, thanks so much for doing this video.

I recommend using the colour elastic bands that come with them and put them around the half way point as a useful marker also it keeps them neat and untangled when you take them out of travel bag

i have been using bands for about three weeks and his right with his conclusion's. the burn is more widely dispersed and the intensity throughout the workout is more present. yet, i'm not feeling the total body fatigue that lifting heavy gives and i'm not fully on board with giving up those hormone boosting compound movements. i have no doubt that bands will help me and others build muscle by doing exercises that help strengthen those small muscle needed to support them.

i love comment section man it really boost my confidence for buying resistance bands!

They are definitely a lot nicer to joints and connective tissue. Super versatile and portable. Just think of the super awesome bows and slingshots you'll be able to use.

I just started with bands myself, getting back into shape , like when I was in my early 20's