 First question is from miss Denise Morales. When should you use the resistance band during weight training? Or will it benefit more to use it when you're priming your body? Yeah, both resistance bands are extremely versatile valuable ways of changing workouts adding variable resistance priming your body, you know, it's funny about resistance bands is They were not really considered You know like a serious exercise tool for a long time and then You saw strength athletes really start to use them. I can't remember which powerlifting group did it He was a West Side Barbell. Were they the ones really? Yeah, I know the Soviets Use them into studies. That's where they got it from. That's where they got it from Yeah, and then you got strength athletes started using them and they started crushing in competitions and You know initially bands were like considered kind of wimpy But it's hard to do that when you guys and girls squatting and lifting as much as they did Next thing, you know, people started using them. I started using them myself As variable resistance with squats and deadlifts love them and then use them for trigger sessions Absolutely love them and now a week doesn't go by that. I don't use resistance bands So I think they're extremely valuable and one of the reasons why they're so valuable is their resistance Gets harder as you stretch them out, which is very different than what you'll experience with weights Yeah, I think you need to explain variable resistance for the the listeners. They understand so if I have a if I have a band I'm doing a overhead press with I may start here at 40 pounds But as I stretch it out, it gets much harder now the cool thing about this is as my arm extends I tend to get stronger as well. So the resistance matches how my strength Tends to express itself. So it's like I get more resistance right when I get stronger, which is kind of cool And it's the opposite of what happens when you have a barbell or a dumbbell Yeah, as you get barbell and a dumbbells you get closer to the end of the movement It's much easier than what it is at the very weight stays the same right or with a free weight Because it's working against gravity, you know, if I'm doing a preacher curl, it's heavy down here But when I'm up here, it's not heavy at all because I'm just supported by my elbow. Where's what the resistance band? It's always challenging. Do I think they can replace? weights no, but I think in addition to extremely valuable so I mean especially for priming is one of my favorite things to use Well, yeah, and I think part of the case that we make for priming is that Yeah, because it's not that you can't prime with a machine or dumbbells or barbells But you're you're more likely to get sore or do that damage by doing that And the idea of priming is to basically kind of neurologically wake up a dormant area pump some blood You're not trying to tear a breakdown really and so bands are great for that because they don't do as much damage So I see it's great to compliment for the variable resistance that you're talking about So it goes good with weight training and then it also makes for a great tool for like on the go Because I mean our little band kit that we have has I mean everything you need in this little pouch Has it to where you can hook it up to a door all the different band resistance And I can get a great little workout in a hotel room real quick And so when you when it's convenient, I think it's nice for that and again Like we talked about other things on the show where here's an area where instead of Programming, you know resistance band workout for a week or two weeks or I just let it happen naturally Naturally, there's gonna be a time where I'm on the go or traveling or it's convenient just to do bands And so I intermittently throw that into my training routine. Yeah speaking of the prime And I think sometimes it is helpful For people to to be able to connect more when you're actually like, you know You have a tool that helps you to kind of fight against the resistance of it instead of creating that muscle contraction Yourself it's kind of a hard concept for people a lot of times to be able to squeeze and contract their muscles and And get that kind of blood flow just you know with with their body weight and without any kind of like tool to kind of aid with that So sometimes I feel you know, you rubber bands provide a nice amount of resistance when you set it up to Kind of take your joint through full range, but keeping that nice consistent contraction You know to focus on with that too, but in terms of performance It's it's one of those things if you start adding that in and you're really focus like on your power lift numbers or You know kind of getting over that hump of a plateau that you always hit. It's such a valuable tool to add to Kind of get you to hit those You know those certain points with with a bit more strength. That's not going to damage quite as much it's if you consider how little space they take up and The fact that you can literally create resistance in any direction so I can make resistance going down Diagonal I could rotate of course going up if you consider those things They're one of the most versatile tools you could use. I'll give you an example of how you would use it for Bodybuilding or body sculpting or whatever you want to call right? Let's say I'm doing a dumbbell fly great exercise Right grace isolation exercise for the chest at the bottom of a dumbbell fly is where I'm feeling most the resistance as I come up towards The top even if I have 35 pound dumbbells on my hands the resistance against my chest gets much lighter because gravity is not pulling sideways It's pulling down so up here. There's really none. How can I use bands? To augment that exercise so that I feel lots of resistance at the squeeze Well, what I could do is I could attach a band around my wrist or the dumbbell and attach them out So now at the bottom I have the full weight of the dumbbells But as I come up now I'm engaging the resistance of the bands and then here at the squeeze I have lots of resistance with the band so Extremely valuable and it's literally limitless in terms of creativity. Here's another way that I use them. In fact The first time Adam and I worked out together years ago when we first met I did this we were doing a deadlift workout and in order to help lock out something that I did with the bands is I Attached them to the bar and I attached them to the cage which is in front of me So when I stand up with the bar the bands are pulling down, but also away from me So it encouraged me to pull back and kind of create this lockout, you know The first time I really saw their value went back when I grand opened Sanatresa 24 fitness they The cardio area was open first the weights and machines weren't open But we were selling memberships and selling personal training So all my trainers use bands and what was crazy was and I remember we had these meetings It was like okay, people may complain make sure you give them a good workout explain the benefits Literally within a week all the members who were training with trainers were Enjoyed working out with bands more than they did with other equipment. They loved it They absolutely loved to the point where when we had a full gym You could see the trainers still incorporated bands in almost every single workout. They feel good They do I always feel good after I do a band workout You