 question is from Ben Vana. Is there a difference between training with bands or cables? Oh, yeah, there's a big difference. The benefits of training with the resistance band. So here's the thing. The benefits of training with any form of resistance is typically the unique aspect of that form of resistance that you don't find with other types of resistance. You're manipulating the strength curve. Yes. So bands, what are bands unique for? Why are bands different? Bands, the further you stretch them out, the harder it gets, the harder they pull. So how is that? So it's very different than a cable, a cable. But we have to explain that real quick. So in what I said about manipulating the strength curve, what that means is most extra, most exercises are easier at the end of the rep, right? So towards the end where a band flips that on its head, as you get further towards the end of the rep, the bands being stretched out completely. And so that the so then it now makes the exercise more challenging at the end of the rep more so than it would be if you didn't have a band. So think of it this way, if you're doing a barbell squat, it's going to be hardest at the bottom of the squat. It's easiest when you're almost at the very top, right? Like if I gave you a bunch of weight to squat and you just went down three inches, wouldn't be a problem. Try to sit down with that weight and come up and you're probably not going to make it up. So by attaching bands to the bar, the bottom of the squat is still kind of easy because the band hasn't stretched that much. But as you go up, the band stretches and it gets more and more difficult applying more resistance when you're stronger. And this adding bands to weights was an absolute breakthrough for power lifters and strength athletes. And that was a West Side barbell, right? They were the first ones to really implement this. But Soviet athletes were the ones to you know how Soviet athletes messed with variable resistance at first. It was with a little thing that looked the hooks and then it dumps when you drop it down. Yeah. Yeah, I remember I remember I think I watched a documentary on that and they talked about that. I saw you know, Ben Pollock was using those the other day I saw I hadn't seen anybody else use those before I never seen anyone else. And they have the hooks and it was common with you know, bench or squat. And it's designed that when you hit the bottom, it unhooks so you can come out you lower 500 pounds, but you only squat up 400 right because the lowering part you're strong. Yeah, I like the deadlifts, they have that flexible bar. So that way when you're pulling from the ground, you're starting to like rip like each played off one by one. Oh, yeah, it kind of like builds up the resistance as you get higher up in your lockout. It is a lot harder to deadlift with a super stiff bar. I remember it first time doing that and I realized why I'm like why is this so much harder? Yeah, it's because you're lifting all the weight right away at once rather than moving up an inch or whatever. It's pretty ingenious without the whole. No, it's it's bands are an exceptional tool and it I didn't use bands until the way later in my training. I never use bands. I used to think bands were complete waste of time when I would when I was working out like bands that's for people who don't have access to weights like that's stupid. Why are you gonna work out? Well, it didn't just for jazzer size. I didn't know what I didn't understand. That's why I wanted to clarify that for those that are listening is I didn't understand how it was manipulating the strength curve and why that's important because unless you're doing that you can't really match. Yeah, you just can't. But cables now cables are consistent all the way through right right. So the resistance that you get with a cable at the at the bottom of the of the the exercise and the top of the exercise it's consistent all this it's matching the strength curve all the way through where most other exercises that you're doing that are free weight. There's going to be this natural strength curve that happens as you get towards the end of the rep. It becomes a lot easier but by adding bands to those it flips that on its head now now if you were to compare bands versus cables alone cables are superior consistent resistance by itself in comparison to the band type of resistance will build more muscle but bands I will say this damaging yes they're less damaging on the body so I love them so much like in maps anabolic I recommended bands for trigger sessions trigger sessions are these little mini short workouts you do on your off days and you do them super frequently and I noticed when I use bands they just work much better and it was because they produce less damage they didn't hurt my muscles as much as if I used and plus like a lot of these like athletic moves I prefer bands just because of that fact that you know you can you can get explosive with the bands and they're going to like stretch with your movement and get like gradually more intense like the harder you push so it's like it sort of matches that like explosive feel that you can get with these like power here's a little trick by the way if you want to do an explosive movement with a cable one of the drawbacks to do an explosive movement with a cable is you have to do an explosive jumps a little yeah to do an explosive move with cable you're going to use a weight that submaximal because otherwise you can't move very fast the problem with that is you throw the weight stack up and it flips everywhere and it makes a lot of noise and it's not good for the machine so here's a little trick take the the pin that sticks out of the weight attach a band to that and then anchor the band on the floor and it keeps the it allows you to move the weight super fast but prevents the weight from flopping all over the place and I started doing this this is back when I was in jujitsu in judo and I'm like I you know I want to practice explosive throws I don't have a partner I want to use the cables promise if I fling the weight it's going to flip all over the place yeah so I attach bands brilliant way to apply explosiveness now is there a value for bands for people who don't give a shit about getting super strong or or don't care about explosive power just want to build muscle totally in fact down three have to you start to see bodybuilders now use band I don't think they know how to use them you know properly or whatever but I'll tell you what if you use bands in your training and you're relatively advanced you're going to build more muscle it's one of my favorite things that I that I add to my training arsenal