Our first product review is by my husband, Josh, who is giving his personal review of Bodylastics Resistance Bands, which he used during his last round of P90X.
*Please note: there is no financial opportunity for us in reviewing this product. We are not reps for this company and do not have a personal relationship with this company. This review is soley from personal use. Enjoy!*
Bodylastics Resistance Bands - Mega Resistance Family Edition
The Bodylastics Resistance Bands are incredible. I think they created an excellent idea that makes using resistance bands for working out so much easier and more convenient. The typical retailer, online or in store, offer single bands to which a handle would somewhat permanently attach at each end. In order to increase your weight resistance you would need to go up a band size. If you needed incremental weight or if you have surpassed the largest band, more for the men or hardcore women, they you had to start using multiple bands. As you could imagine, that doesn’t work very well in your hands while working out. You would have to hold on to multiple handles to accomplish this. There are some newer systems that are offering a set of bands that connect to they handles. However, those only come with 3 or 4 bands and they are a general weight resistance. On top of this headache, you had to wrap the bands around something in order to anchor them down to use them. That can be very inconvenient as well. Not to mention you pay quite a bit in order to get a decent line up of bands to do the job.
Bodylastics offers several levels of packages. My favorite, which I believe is an incredible value, includes a pair of each size band. It also includes 4 handles and more. The more is where Bodylastics really separates themselves, I think, from everyone else. They have door anchors, ankle straps, and anywhere anchors (not included). This set comes with 4 of the ankle straps and two of the door anchors. The uniqueness about the handles and bands from Bodylastics is that they clip together. With clipping the bands to the handles you can now create your own weight increments to increase as needed. This is an incredible idea and works beautifully. The door anchors just go into your door frame and you shut your door on them and you now can adjust your height as needed, depending on what exercise you are doing and also it’s not forcing you tie bands around door knobs or banisters anymore. This now gives you more freedom to workout anywhere indoors.
If you wish to take your workout outdoors then you just couldn’t use the door anchors. Although there is an anchor that you can purchase for a pretty cheap price that is designed for the outdoors. The anywhere anchor fits around some trees and poles or bars that may be at a park. Let me offer up a tip: I use the ankle straps as anchors as well. I use them to wrap around bars or poles that happen to be in my garage. You could also use those as anchors for outdoor working out if you are close to a picnic area or playground.
Very informative article
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