Average Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Total Number of Reviews: 10
Editorial Review: Maximize your strength, speed, and power through the use of resistance bands and tubing. As a complete workout on their own or a supplement to free weights and machines, strength bands are the ultimate tool for customizing workouts and isolating muscles. And the portable bands and tubing make the perfect travel workout. Strength Band Training shows how to use resistive bands and tubing in 106 exercises addressing every major muscle group. These exercises have been used by strength professionals and many top athletes because the bands and tubing allow you to add resistance in multiple directions—something free weights and machines can’t do. As a result, your resistance routine can simulate sport demands, strengthening core and supporting muscles or targeting specific rehabilitation needs. Easy to adjust, bands and tubing are designed to provide resistance for users at any level of strength and ability. Add Strength Band Training to your conditioning program for the most complete and versatile workouts possible.
Nice book, but I prefer weights workout 4 out of 5
There are good ideas in this book, and the pictures are good. The font was too small and difficult to read. But I guess that I still prefer exercising with weights at the gym. I think that stretching bands' resistance is too weak for most men, at least I am not that fan of resistance bands.
Good start 3 out of 5
This book includes a very complete collection of theraband exercises for all body parts. It does have photos but the photos are only in one position-wish there was a start position and and end position. They are all isolated exrecises so if you are wanting a routine you have to figure that out on your own. For those who are looking for a more structured/instructive start it would be nice to have a suggested full body work out for beginners/intermediate/advanced as a base to start from which is missing in this book. Good resource especially for those who are familiar with working with the band or want to work a specific muscle group.
great book 5 out of 5
I was given this book as a gift. It provides very clear instructions on exercises with useful pictures. It contains variations on each exercise. If you want to exercise with resistance bands, this is a good choice.
Alternate Exercise Program 4 out of 5
This book is well laid-out, informative to the nth degree. it has aided my health regime and alternative exercise program greatly. I would recommend it to both beginners and weight trainers of long standing.
good idea, poor execution 2 out of 5
I bought this book hoping it would serve as a one-stop resource for dozens of strength band exercise ideas. That is, afterall, what this book attempts to be. However, I quickly found that this book falls far short of that mark.
On the positive side:
1) lots of exercises
2) generally well-organized by body part
On the negative side:
1) Their picture of "proper" athletic posture is seriously flawed. The guy's head is jutted forward, his abdominals aren't contracted, and his shoulders are rounded, among other things.
2) Photos are limited to 2 shots per exercise - the 2nd shot usually shows a variation of the first. While I was glad they showed the variations, this book would have been far clearer and more useful if they'd included at least enough pictures to show each exercise's 'start' and 'finish' positions.
3) I have to agree with the reviewer from Portland Oregon - the models in the exercise photos look bored to tears most of the time. I'm not advocating cheesy grins, but since these types of exercises are usually more effective if one (the exerciser) focuses on the specific muscles you're using, it'd be nice if this book showed models who at least look like they're actually doing the exercises - not just assuming a certain position and sleeping with eyes open until told to do something else.
4) As another reviewer mentioned, very few (if any) of the exercise pics show how one might attach the strength band to doors, table legs, or other attachment points the typical "at home" exerciser is likely to have available. In most cases, it matters significantly how high you attach your band, the angle of resistance you create, etc.
In summary, I will be returning this book. If the negatives I listed above are important to you, a far better book selection for you to consider would be "Therapeutic Exercises Using Resistive Bands" by Caroline Corning Creager. Although that book's title specifies "therapeutic" exercises, what you'll find inside is actually much broader in scope. It includes 275 exercises (pictures depict 'start' & 'end' positions :) ) plus a whole lot more.
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