Home Workout with Resistance Bands. Saturday, 9/4/10

Banded Pushups (with purples)
6 reps
8 reps
8 reps
8 reps

Banded Chest Press (with pauses)
3 x 8 reps

Close-Grip Perfect Pushups
2 x 12 reps

Banded Bent-Over Rows (with pauses, with purples)
4 x 5 reps

Banded "Simulated" Lat Pulldowns
4 x 5 reps

Banded Pullaparts
3 x 8 reps

Banded Tricep Extensions
2 x 12 reps

Bicep Curls
-> with 27lb dumbell??
7 reps each arm
6 reps each arm

Banded Tricep Extension Kickbacks
-> with mini-bands
2 x 15 reps

Banded Hammer Curls (with purples)
2 x 16 reps

This One's for The Haters - Banded Bench and Back Day 5/8/10

-> Since I experienced some elbow pain last week, I am going to do mostly the same workouts but with the resistance bands instead of the weights to not aggravate my very important elbow joints further.

-> great idea Dave for "Body by Ben" however somebody beat us to it haha (bodybyben.com -> I am not an official sponsor, please note that BodyByBen does not endorse this statement). However, this did not stop me from having an amazing day and coming up with some new exercises that use only resistance bands. The creativity is always flowing.

... SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, HERE IT IS ...

Banded Bench (no weight)
8 reps with 1 purple (doubled) and 1 red (doubled)
2 reps with 1 purple (doubled) and 1 purple (singled -> looped around me)
4 reps with 1 purple (doubled) and 1 purple (singled -> looped around me)
4 reps with 1 purple (doubled) and 1 purple (singled -> looped around me)

Banded Incline Bench (no weight)
5 reps with 1 purple (doubled) and 1 red (doubled)
5 reps with 1 purple (doubled) and 1 red (doubled)
4 reps with 1 purple (doubled) and 1 red (doubled)
5 reps with 1 purple (doubled) and 1 red (doubled)

Banded Shoulder Press (no weight)
8 reps with 1 purple (singled - looped around me)
8 reps with 1 purple (singled - looped around me)
8 reps with 1 purple (singled - looped around me)

Banded One-Arm Rows (looped bands through handles on the 100lb plates)
7 reps each arm with 1 red (doubled)
5 reps each arm with 1 red (doubled) and holding the 10lb plate looped through the bands
5 reps each arm with 1 red (doubled) and holding the 10lb plate looped through the bands
5 reps each arm with 1 red (doubled) and holding the 10lb plate looped through the bands

Banded Lateral Lat Pulldown (no weight)
8 reps with 1 red (doubled)
8 reps with 1 red (doubled)

Banded Face Pulls (no weight)
8 reps with 1 red (doubled)
8 reps with 1 red (doubled)
8 reps with 1 red (doubled)

Banded Chest Flys (no weight, thumbs in)
8 reps with 1 red (doubled)
8 reps with 1 red (doubled)
8 reps with 1 red (doubled)

Banded Shrugs
8 reps while stepping on 1 red (doubled)
8 reps while stepping on 1 red (doubled) & holding 10lb plate looped through bands in each hand
10 reps while stepping on 1 red (doubled) & holding 10lb plate looped through bands in each hand

---->>> NO ELBOW PAIN TODAY!!!!

**** SOME STRETCHING AFTER ****