A few years ago I would not have believed you. Have been using them since 2018 couldn’t agree more.

Love the way you clearly explain everything. Keep up you good work.

Love the honest review of band changed over about 3 months ago and have seen great results....still have the thoughts creep in that i need to lift free weights,thanks,you have given me the confidence to stay with the bands.

You know what's crazy, I have always owned at least one tube style resistance band from like my early twenties onward. But it hasn't been until recently that I understood the power of bands. Despite watching videos from James grage in the past, my mentality regarding bands was that it was a substitute for not being able to go to a gym. However during this pandemic era, I feel like I have become much more appreciative of resistance band training. So I have now expanded my collection of resistance bands to include Loop style bands and mini loop style bands. I have also purchased additional tube style bands of higher resistance levels. Pandemic era has forced me to adjust how I work out in a positive way.I had a weighted handle jump rope and speed jump rope prior, but didn't use them very often when the gyms were open. They were often times where it was tough to find space to jump rope in the gym. So I would go the traditional cardio route. Now the jump rope has become a very fun part of my exercise experience. And now I'm having just as much fun in my own backyard as I did in the gym. Maybe even more fun because I get to be outdoors in the Sun. I'm hoping more and more people find your channel because I like your approach to Fitness. It's a perfect addition to the rotation of channels that I follow.

Much respect for you man, your content always on point and its really very helpful

i recently injured myself due to bad form w free weights. 5 months later i’ve been using Resistance band training and my joints and tendons have never felt better. not to mention the amount of muscle i’ve built with just tube style bands is impressive. idk why i slept on them for so long.

Excellent video. I have believed these things through my fitness journey about bands but it makes me even more confident in my beliefs. Thank you for this info, greatly appreciate it!

Appreciate how you delineated the benefits of resistance bands! Makes sense

This is a gem, discovering the resistance bands and knowing its effective. SO happy you've confirmed this and gained another subscriber :) Happy bands training

Man, you are phenomenal! I got me the undersun fitness bands and have been following you and applying your advice and my body is transforming SO RAPIDLY! And woking out at home or at the park is incredibly relaxing and satisfying!

I ordered resistance bands a few months back because of the lockdowns from Covid-19 and once you figure out how to use them, that you needs to start with tension as well as balancing them out, the workout is great. One thing I did find is that they don't put as much pressure on your joints as free weights do and as someone who is 50 this is a blessing. But also, there is so much variety in the workouts you can have an endless amount of exercises for each body part. I don't want to get into an argument of free weights vs. bands, each has its place and everybody has their preferences but for me, I am enjoying the band workouts and feel I get a great workout from them.

Excellent content Coach Dave

Very down to earth and insightful.. I have subscribed... Thank you.

This makes me feel like i bought the right equipment. And it saved me a lot of money too. Currently doing a 2month challenge using resistance bands. Thank goodness i found this channel.

Thank you, very informative.

Thanks for this useful information

My brotha! Thank you for posting this video. I've been a meathead for as long as I can remember. I am guilty of instant gratification with has set me back in the worst way. Now that I'm older and still recovering from a fall 5 years ago, I'm ready to apply what you're teaching. Thank you Discipline Dave!

Thats Dave , now in my early 60’s I first bands used when I travelled worried of the high cost of gyms OS, but now use exclusively.I got totally out of the Gym habit with the covid 19 shutdown of gyms, where now I don’t get the respiratory illnesses as an added benefit. With bands you have a gym anywhere,you have constant resistance any you keep your ligaments toned as well. I use them while walking on my beach (I live there) , and they are a good toner for surfing when eating a nutritious diet as well. I have used small weights as well butI find with bands I can get to “burning levels” easier without exhaustion .The weights still have their place for a change or to augment my session. Keep up the good work of empowering people . Scott🇦🇺

Love your channel, very very helpful 👍👍👍

Thanks so much! New to trying out into bodybuilding or at least just to aesthetically look shredded and I always believed in resistance bands.

Good motivation and information bro, good video.

Outstanding video. Very informative. I just started following you and yesterday was my first full body workout. Loved it and felt it!! Be seeing you.

What a great video, thank you.

Excellent video! I actually like using them in combination. Example, I do a racked dumbbell front squat or DB squat while having a band from shoulders/neck to toe, so this way I get an accelerated concentric resistance because of the band, but also still get the eccentric on the way down because of the dumbbells (40lbs DB's).

A new follower and I will definitely follow u advices and will get back to you about results:)

Love this vid!!

Thanks for the info.

All facts brother I tried lateral flys last week with some bands I got for Xmas and I still feel my shoulders and I do Flys every week with dumbbells. It had me questioning my whole workout routine and that led me to you. Thank you 💪🏿👁💪🏿

You sir have just got yourself a new subscriber thanks for the video man 😊

Very informative for your share, Thank you

Okay I'm convinced!

Keep it up bro!! Watching you from Spain 💪🏼

Thanks for informative knowledge, love from India♥️🔥

I just bought some bands. All the logic makes sense to me. I think this will really help my bicep size too since I have low insertions, I think I'm being limited by not having the resistance at the top of the curl.

Thanks Coach for the explanation of the benefits of bands. I love bodyweight exercises and I've always "cut" very nicely. Now Im in my mid-50s with a knee injury. Interestingly, I train prenatal and postpartum women. We use bodyweight and bands. I look forward to sharing this video to my "daddy" clients! Good job and better if it comes from you for my male clients.

I've been doing resistance bands heavy since the pandemic. I fully agree. I've seen better results. Also, they don't take up as much storage space.

Dear Dave, I think you should upload videos of every move possible that you can do with resistance band, ONE BY ONE. That way we can use these vidoes to make our forms better. It would be nice to have a 1 minute video of a resistance band curl or chest press or incline fly's. People would benefit it and watch it more.

Glad i found your channel

On Point 100% Dave. Since C19 bought bands because of Gym's being closed, and now fully understand and appreciate the benefits of keeping resistance throughout the full range of motion with what ever strength band or exercise your doing, and performing in a slower more correct form. Appreciate your channel and educating style, as well as teaching the various movements for different body parts using bands, which in turn allows us to be creative on our own for different body parts. I also believe our core benefits as well as smaller muscle groups that support our larger muscles more from the traditional commercial gym and array of different machines. The best take away is no need to spend money on costly heavy metal and machines. Just a good bench and anchor point for your bands. My only concern is that if one of those bands snap under load , it could be a painful experience/day !!!

I must say Dave, i really being enjoying your videos, your explanations, your technique is very complete and very useful. I would like to ask you; what’s your opinion with the suspension trainers like the TRX or other brands? In This pandemic times i’ve been training with suspension trainer and recently add resistance bands to my workouts. Very good job Dave you deserve more suscribers. Greetings from Mexico.!

Very informative, i was reluctant in buying resistance bands but im convinced now. Not trying to look like Arnold or Ronny, more like a Trey Songz or Usher look lol. Thanks and keep up the good work. U earned a like and a sub. Love the Bob Marley pic in the background ☝🏽❤️🇯🇲 bless up.

I bought 400lbs of resistance bands. I use the the street light pole to wrap them around and I get the best pump ever

good information

Good info

Woohoo I want aesthetics!!!!!!! Proper technique with the resistance is 🔑

Love the sign

Hi Dave, I found your channel looking for tube band reviews. I've used bands in mat Pilates classes and love the control that they bring into the workout. I'm looking to expand my band workouts even more, using an anchor. I love your focus on form and will be watching even more videos. Do you have any videos for women looking for that long, feminine, Pilates muscle look?

Thanks!

Preach...I believe I'm going yup I am.. I'm going to be a few subbie. Just getting into resistance bands and I've got something from Marshall's. I'll keep using those until I move up a level. Yes, the mind remembers free weights.. then it moves to resistance machines now bands... I almost threw my bands away because it was just that hard because I had to use control which is going to use every muscle. Excellent points you provided.

Lots of love and respect from India ❤️

You can't drop a resistance band and have it go through the floor to your neighbor's appartment :D

Dave, a lot of heavy lifter's get hurt or eventually get joint problems. i have a friend who is a mess from power lifting he regrets it, an he's only forty three. He now trains with resistance bands an he got a total gym which also is heavy into using cables with it an it has a weight bar with his unit. He likes a channel with a mostly ex power lifter named Skylar King, who loves the total gym an the cables that most of the exercises use, an that's his channel all about using the total gym, a lot of different way's to get after it.

Those cable machines are really useful, you can do just about everything with them and they take up alot less space in a gymn. The older style machines aren't so good because you are missing out that range of motion and adaptability.

Just bought flat resistance bands today. My daughter suggested years ago to get resistance bands and do resistance training as I'm getting older

Arnold and Ronnie? Both on PED’s. BUT!! Bronze Age Bodybuilders Eugen Sandow and Fred Rollon used chest expanders with heavy duty springs, which were very similar to bands.

Been doing full body band workout.

I’ve lost 14 pounds of fat and gained 5 pounds of muscles. I’ve never been as bigger and leaner as I am now. It’s all about a caloric deficit and good training under tension. Resistance bands brought me there.

Just got my bands today, I normally curl 25-30 now me being 127lbs now. I had to go to the lightest band and switch to 20lbs dumbbells, and boy it’s intense af.

Lol I like the bands because u can’t be slanging the weight especially doing curls with bad form

I am starting to believe that resistance bands are better than free weights, but there is one thing that is wrong with what you said in your video. Between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronnie Coleman, Ronnie actually used LESS cable work in his training as a pro bodybuilder and was a power lifter before he was a bodybuilder (Arnold also was a power lifter). I'm not even sure that outside of standing cable curls and leg curls that Ronnie used any cable machines at all(I don't even think he did any chest fly work, lol). If he did, he didn't do them on the dvds that he made back in the 2000s. It's been a while since I watched them so maybe I'm forgetting something, but I recall at least 95% of Ronnie's workouts being about in his own words lifting heavy ass weights. Arnold specifically wrote in his book that machines aren't as effective as free weights. So both of those guys would be the evidence against your argument. With that being said, I have been using exclusively bands for 4 months and every day am more convinced that they offer better results than weights IF you can nail the form down. Good video overall, but you might want to check your research on the Ronnie and Arnold cable work. Arnold is likely to have used more cable work than Ronnie ever did.

Use resistance bands bodylastic in my workouts and I enjoyed them. 🏋️‍♀️

Hey bud just joined 👍 And have lots of bands and door anchors But now I want to get in shape good as im 51 now. How often should I do a body part with bands is it same as weights 2 times a week or more ???? I'm not starting from scratch as iv always had a physical job with hard labour.

I'm thinking about buying bands today... but man, the idea of doing face pulls with bands scares me to death.

Something important to mention, I’ve trained for many years lifting heavy weights and having injuries and for some of these irreversible. Now that I’ m more than middle age I would have been happy to train with it earlier. I was of those disclaimers but I changed my mind.

this vid is 100 percent right it is a better stretch with bands over weights but bands cant put on muscle like weights I did bands for 6 months 2 years ago straight and I got cutter but not much then 6 months ago I got bullworker and u got way more cut in that 2nd month then the 6 months I did with bands bullworker is the best for at home cutting of muscles and it burns fat better then anything at home yall should get one im not impressed much by nothin else really no more I got a power twister to which is a spring just like bullworker both is underground and way underrated folks should get these 2 items instead of bands or weights bullworker is good for old ages to which weights is not good for

Love resistance bands I feel more tension through out the movements

Resistance bands are much easier on the joints! I stopped doing bicep curls for over a year because I would sometimes feel discomfort in one of my elbows. It wasn't exactly painful, but I knew it would get worse if I kept doing it. I recently got resistance bands and now I can do bicep curls again, and it's much more enjoyable knowing I'm not going to tweak my elbow.

Can you tell me exercises for burn fat and love handle whit resistance bands? Compliments for your video!

Why do people cross the band tubs

03:06 - 03:09, you're the absolute spitting image of Turk from Scrubs. It's uncanny, if you walked into a bank horizontally they'd probably just hand you his money.

Dear Dave, do you put anything on your bands to condition them? When I bought my Bodylastics last time, all the reviewers said we should put ArmorAll on them, and didn't say anything about washing or wiping it off. I did as suggested, but now I think my bands have deteriorated at a faster rate than my older set did. I recently followed a link where Bodylastics suggested using a different product, telling us to spray it on, work it in with our fingers, and then wipe the excess off gently. They then went on to say if you leave it there, it could damage the bands! If that is the case, why put it on the bands at all? I am of a mind now, with my newest set on the way, to simply leave them alone, putting nothing on them. My old Bodylastic set lasted at least 8 years, and I only changed because I wanted the anti-snap bands. However, one of them has snapped and I have just discovered that another one probably will soon. What do you do with your bands? Thank you for any advice you can give.

Resistance bands are good if you have injuries. I have permanent poor mobility in my right ankle and both shoulders are bad too.

I use two bands of 35kg, 1 of 45kg and 60kg and combine them, the resistence increase a lost, i do militar press with band of 45 with both hands and It is very hard👍

Thank You!!! I have been working out for a month now using JUST resistance bands... But, of course, I was not sure bands would be as effective as free weights. I have gained almost 10 lean pounds in a month!!! But, I also have a great diet. Chicken breasts, fish collagen smoothies, and lots of broccoli, probiotics, and healthy (organic and lectin avoidance) fats. Your videos are my prime lower body workout materials.

Hi can you please tell how long these bands can survive.... As it will eventually loose its elasticity too... So please tell the span of time till when these bands will behave ideal. Like 4 months 5 months or 6 months or up till when?

According to Dr Andrew Huberman and Dr Andy Galpin who are researchers at Stanford University and Cal State University -Fullerton respectively, it is a common misconception that you must lift heavy to get big and that is actually incorrect. You lift heavy with fewer reps to get stronger while you lift lighter with more reps to develop muscular hypertrophy. It is the reason why body builders lift exclusively, for the most part, light with high reps to achieve that body builder look. So just a clarification so that people can know some of the info you stated is not completely correct though like with anything, the above statement also depends on other factors

Lol..veins popping and definition also came from all the drugs Coleman was on...

I know I am late to the party. But can you get big muscles using resistance bands?

Free weights is a traditional way before technology is introduced-rubber band. Gym is a good way of socialising people and changing weights. Where rubber band is cheaper but less profitable than running a gym. Training with weights plus rubber is a critical. On other hands rubber band is harder to give an exact tension(load) as compared to weights. It is going to be a big cultural change from weights to rubber. Where as weight is a solid mass as compared to rubber tension. Rubber has less tension on joints compared to weights. Rubber wins because it causes more micro fibre tear in the same exercise as to weights.

Dont forget it's harder for children to hurt themselves with resistance bands that are properly put up lol. But for real though my only time to hit the gym is usually after work which would be 1 in the morning. Nothing is open anymore due to lockdown restrictions so I purchased me some bands and I can take them anywhere.

Ronnie Coleman har aldrig trænet med bands, han trænende gammel dags og tungt, netop derfor er han så skadet nu, han ikke kan gå. Det er rigtig ærgerligt at du bruger Arnold og Ronnie i din definition af bands vs vægte, for de har intet med hinanden at gøre. Ellers har du ramt plet og jeg er så enig med dig.

So cable machine vs resistance band?

Can you build decent leg muscles with bands

Can I gain any mass using bands or is it just ripping

Hi sir...iam a beginner and I have never went to gym not even once...can I Build my muscles and become muscular by doing only resistance bands workout....please sir let me know!! 🙏🙏

Little known fact: Bands will make her dance~

Can yu suggest some bands that i can buy from an Indian market

I've been training with bands for almost 6 years. I would never go back to weights.

I am all in with bands , but using Ronnie as an example of cables is not accurate. He used mostly free weights, dumbbells.and barbells.

For me resistence bands are better than weights im bodybuilder

Cheaper than a $60/month for a gym membership

So ... Why should i trust you? Are you a trainer?

Ronnie Coleman had better juice than Arnold.

Ronnie used bands? Wasn't the genetics and more types of gear?? So here is a shitsu and a Greyhound. Maybe, the Greyhound uses the bands because of modern technology. Thats why he is so much faster!!

nah man. look at James Grage before bands and after, his shoulders disappeared. I think for rear delts, bis, and forearms they're ok, everything else weights rule.

I do wish you would of said something about the drugs they use. Even about 60's and now.....Why is that such a no talk subject. Should of used someone like Steve Reeves