 Next question is from Imoi 5 What are some of the best workout tips for using resistance bands? Don't allow the bands to sit in the sun and dry out. Mm-hmm. What happened to you? Do they snap on you or what? I think everybody's had a band snap on them. Don't let your trainer put it around you and then have you run with it. Yeah. Yeah, that's always a good Have you guys ever smacked a client with the broken band? It came back actually I was I was doing that as as a trainer and it Broke, but it got me so it came back and it hit me in the ribs I had like the biggest welten bruise for a couple weeks Dude, I hit one of my older male clients right in the pills. Oh, yeah, right in the pills hard last time he resorted He stopped after that So okay, so it's funny the funny thing about resistance bands. This is very interesting You know, we have a bit of a unique perspective because we've been in the fitness space Professionally in the gym space for for two decades or over two decades, right? So you see Trends and what becomes favorable and unfavorable and I bands probably I can't think of another tool that went from Nobody respected at all to becoming extremely valuable and a relatively short period of time When I first started working out you you couldn't you wouldn't catch a single lifter Using bands if they did they would be made fun of for the rest of your lives Was it West Side barbell that popularized? They yes power lifting Coaches were the ones that started started popularizing bands because well what happened was a lot of these coaches We're studying the the lifting techniques and workout programs of eastern block lifters former Soviet Union Nations and remember when that when the iron curtain came down All of their information became available to us and these countries had like funding massive funding from the Communist regime because it was a source of pride right that their athletes, you know did stuff So they studied all kinds of different lifting techniques and one thing that they discovered was variable resistance Was extremely effective at building strength a very very effective at building it makes the strength curve It mimics the strength curve So what I'm talking about is and our coaches over here saw this read this and the smart ones applied it and then you know They became dominant so a strength curve is this right when you're doing a squat for example You're not the same strength throughout the whole squat Most of us are strongest at the top of the squat and weakest at the bottom of a squat So imagine when you're doing a heavy squat Where are you most likely to not be able to lift the weight? Where are you most likely to be able to lift the most amount of weight right at the top? You're the strongest at the bottom of the weakest now the problem with free weights Or most machines or any other piece of equipment is that the very the equipment's excuse me The resistance is pretty consistent. So if I'm squatting 300 pounds whether I'm at the top of the squat or the bottom of the squat It's 300 pounds what a band does when I attach bands to the side of the bar and attach them down to an anchor So let's say I tie them to the squat rack at the bottom up at the so they're on the barbell And they're at the bottom of the squat rack what a band does is it gives you more resistance at the top and less resistance at the bottom Because when you have a band the further you stretch it out the harder the resistance becomes and the when it's barely stretched out The resistance is very easily excuse me very easy So when you're squatting with bands Now you have 300 pounds on the bar But you have let's say an additional 100 pounds of resistance at the top of the squat But at the bottom it's only maybe 20 pounds of resistance and it gradually increases So you're it's not like a huge demand all at once. No, and this resistance trains your muscles through Their natural strength curve and it's true. It's incredible for strength gains That's my second favorite way to use resistance bands. My first favorite way is with the trigger session trigger sessions work They actually work better with bands than they do with weights I think it's because bands don't cause as much damage to muscle And a trigger session you'll find that in maps anabolic but for those of you who don't have the program Here's how you can apply a trigger session get yourself a pair of bands on your days off Do light Exercises and movements for about 10 minutes two or three times during the day for maybe three or four of your target body parts So let's say it's your shoulders your triceps your biceps and your back So you're gonna do band exercises for each of those get a little bit of a pump And just send a small muscle-building signal, but really what you're doing is your facilitating recovery Improving mobility improving blood flow and it turbo charges the results you get from your workouts That's my favorite way to speak. I'm done. Are we are we sold out still? Do you know? I Haven't seen a box come through in a while from our bands or do we have them? I haven't seen us come through as soon as we list them. They're gone. No, I know it's been crazy right now I the my favorite part about resistance band is just the convenience of them You know anybody who's been training in a gym long enough Knows that like when you're inside of a gym one of the most versatile machines out there are the cable machines You know because you can move the the anchoring point and you can move your Contours to your body and so you could do all these great You could do a full-body extra routine with one cable machine like our free-motion machine really well Good bands are the same way Especially if you I mean the ones that we saw have like the different anchor points I could put at the bottom of a door the side of a door at the top of the door and so I can create all kinds of different angles And I could do a full-body routine and I could carry it around in this little pouch So I I love it for that like of course what Sal saying for my advanced lifters or listeners I think bands and chains are great tools to break through plateaus and to improve strength gains But for the masses and for most people I just think it's one of those things that you should you should have Like everybody should just have a set of like good band like a Basic set of bands for that time that you're gonna work out inside a hotel or that time you're gonna be at a park or that time That you're just gonna you want to get a little bit of exercise in and you can get a really nice workout Yeah, I really got into bands. I was thinking back when I was in college and I there was a physical therapy clinic like on site and you know after after workouts I would kind of go in there and and discuss things with them and they would work all with rubber bands They they would treat everybody's rubber bands. They were fantastic for rehabilitation You know exercises and that's when I started actually using them a lot more and started to actually superset them You know in combo with with dumbbells or barbells and I saw some some pretty awesome gains as a result Yeah, I I love bands. I discovered them not that long ago Maybe you know, I want to say eight years ago. It's actually a long time ago But you know, I've been working out for so long. It seems like it was recent and ever since I discovered them So they were like they were they were game change Adam Do you remember one of the first maybe the first workout you and I ever had together? Do you remember you came to my studio my wellness facility and you and I did a deadlift? Yeah, work out this wrong. So I will be crushed. Yeah, I have I've video of that. Yeah, oh you do Yeah, yeah, we we don't show me because we were all jack. I know I was I think I was like We were banded up on like 315 and I was pulling it like it was butter Yeah, so what I was gonna say is here's another this is an advanced tip So if you're a beginner intermediate, this probably won't benefit you But if you're an advanced lifter, this is brilliant another good thing about the band is I can change where it's pulling from to emphasize different Different angles of a lift, so I'll give you an example So Adam and I we were doing deadlifts that day together now One of the things about a deadlift is you have to you want to be able to pull back You want to create the force that you're trying to create with the deadlift is not just to lift the weight up But rather to kind of lift it back at the same time lock out to lock it out So what we did is we attached the bands to the bar and then in front of us on the on the on the cage That way we have to really emphasize that pullback at the top You do a few sets of that and then take the bands off watch your form It primes that movement and gives you better technique with your lift You could do this with a lot of different exercises