Quote: (08-29-2017 07:08 AM)Steelex Wrote:
If you're trying to build muscle I don't reccomend bands at all for anything other than light movements to warm up the joints.
Now you can say "oh well it's better than nothing" and be right, but that's like saying eating sugar free jello is better than starving. It is, but not by much. A quick Google search will show you that the heavy bands are 50-60 bucks.
There's like a minimum level of investment needed here, and a chin up/dip stand is about as minimum as it gets.
If you wanna be cheaper than that, go get a 5 gallon bucket and fill it up with rocks from the park. You gotta spend some money, even runners gotta buy shoes.
They are used for actual bodybuilding/powerlifting etc. Powerlifters used them way before they were well known to the public.
Personally, I really like the range of exercises you can do with them.Obscure exercises like neck and also for curls when you can't "hit it" properly with dumbells etc.
The problem with weights is that they can only exert counter force in down direction - down.