Since we in Aotearoa have been having season 4 of lockdown, the fam has been doing more indoor exercise. L4 means no riding btw. 
This season our PT friend lent us this bag (sack?) of weights and shit and included was this super fat-ass resistance band, like easy 5mm thick 40mm wide elastic loop. I never used (or actually maybe never seen) one this thick and gotta say I am loving it.
I normally do not care for bands and that type of stuff, probably because they are normally so weak; I mostly like freeweights but this fat chungus is actually great. Wrap it across your back and shoulders and do actually hard ‘bench press’ in front of the teevee, stand on it and do usefully hard pull ups. It’s super chunky and the stretch is rarrr after a few reps.
I just tried to google it for a link but it is unbranded and I can’t find it. I see there are some similar ‘UFC’-branded thickish ones but they look a fair bit skinnier than my fat purple strength lizard.
Example: simple triangle arm curls; to start it is nearly nothing, feels like 7kg or so as you start to come from straight arm but as you get to the peak it’s easy like 30kg resistance, and at that point even extending your wrist and hand out fully takes it to 40. People I actually like that little extension stuff too. A few sets feels groovy, I think because of that ramp effect, and you can explore the edges of the movement a bit more too.
Anyway, even after a few days it is clearly an effective way to work out, and probably mostly just a bit of a change too which is nice. You can hit muscles combos and angles a bit differently to freeweights, and that is a good thing. Compared to freeweights it’s super convenient to have around the lounge too.
So anyway, many thanks chonky band! 10/10 will keep hitting it.
This season our PT friend lent us this bag (sack?) of weights and shit and included was this super fat-ass resistance band, like easy 5mm thick 40mm wide elastic loop. I never used (or actually maybe never seen) one this thick and gotta say I am loving it.
I normally do not care for bands and that type of stuff, probably because they are normally so weak; I mostly like freeweights but this fat chungus is actually great. Wrap it across your back and shoulders and do actually hard ‘bench press’ in front of the teevee, stand on it and do usefully hard pull ups. It’s super chunky and the stretch is rarrr after a few reps.
I just tried to google it for a link but it is unbranded and I can’t find it. I see there are some similar ‘UFC’-branded thickish ones but they look a fair bit skinnier than my fat purple strength lizard.
Example: simple triangle arm curls; to start it is nearly nothing, feels like 7kg or so as you start to come from straight arm but as you get to the peak it’s easy like 30kg resistance, and at that point even extending your wrist and hand out fully takes it to 40. People I actually like that little extension stuff too. A few sets feels groovy, I think because of that ramp effect, and you can explore the edges of the movement a bit more too.
Anyway, even after a few days it is clearly an effective way to work out, and probably mostly just a bit of a change too which is nice. You can hit muscles combos and angles a bit differently to freeweights, and that is a good thing. Compared to freeweights it’s super convenient to have around the lounge too.
So anyway, many thanks chonky band! 10/10 will keep hitting it.
Seriously hope you're ok!
wishing you healing vibes.
. Sorry to hear that. Best of luck with your surgery and the recovery process.
