Resistance bands offer versatility in workouts. 

<div class="block">Resistance bands are a perfect tool for those looking to shake up their workout routines. Anthony Brescio, fitness trainer at Pod Spa, joined &#39;beWell&#39; to talk about their versatility and how to get the most out of resistance bands.</div>

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Be Well: How Resistance Bands Can Diversify Your Workout

There are so many different types of resistance bands and so many different exercises you can do with those bands. So, Anthony from Hot spot is here to talk us through an upper body workout that we can use just resistance. Why would we want to do that instead of picking up our weight? Well, I mean, regardless of, um, your fitness level, incorporating resistance bands into your daily routine, um, will help balance out your body in terms of strength, mobility and flexibility. Um, those are three key benefits to our overall health. All right. Great. So let's start with, um, the first exercise that you wanna do and we want to step on the band and if you had one of those regular loop bands, we could put both feet one in each karate career. Ok. So you're gonna hold it, get a good grip on it with your hands. And how do we make sure that it's the same size right on each side because you wanna have the same load, just measure it with? Ok. All right. So you're gonna bend over, got it flat back. Ok. And you're gonna pull up and squeeze, you're gonna pull into your hip and squeeze and then slowly release and really focus on that connection with the muscle. So as I'm pulling up and squeezing between the shoulder blades on that area. Ok. And then really slow with this, what's the benefit of going so slow? Well, I mean, it, it's really, you're really, as you pull in and squeeze, it's really a mind to muscle thing. So you're connecting with that muscle and you're putting all that resistance into the muscle and then really controlling because it wants to pull you back down and you don't wanna let it. Yes. The resistance is what's gonna help you? So, how many of those would I do as many as you can? OK, until muscle failure? Oh, I love that. OK. That's hard. And uh with the next exercise we're gonna do. So we're gonna do, we can go right into biceps from here. Great. And how do I change my posture? Because that was a bent over. You don't stand straight up. I don't wanna release some of that pressure off your back and put, put it into your arm into your biceps. So you're gonna come up like a hammer curl, right? Squeeze, squeeze at the top and then slowly back down and then opposite. And am I doing the same idea here where I want to try to see how many I can get through? That's right. You want to fatigue the muscle? OK. And this is gonna be great for those biceps, but I'm also feeling my core as I really control it. Right. Yeah. OK. Great. And then we also want to hit the, the tricep right back of the arm here. You could keep 1 ft. OK. Right. Try and go a little bit closer to the edge. OK? Bring this the closer to the edge. You go, the easier it will be. So in case you needed some convincing, I'm gonna go a little further. OK? Yeah. So your, your hand should be right behind your head. Got it right. You come keep your arm in like OK, come straight up, squeeze at the top, the hairs in there. OK? Squeeze at the top and come down and the thing is this is gonna wanna pull you back down on that tricep. But this is one of those muscles you really wanna target, you can really feel it, you can really feel it.