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How a Resistance Bands Door Attachment Can Help Your Home Workout

Elizabeth Renter — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:36:22 +0000

For those of us who would rather workout at home, sometimes finding the best way to get all of our exercises in requires some creativity. Unless you want to spend the money on a bulky and expensive home gym, you are constantly on the lookout for ways to get the same gym moves in your own home. A resistance bands door attachment is one of those gadgets that can seriously improve the quality of your home workout without breaking the bank.

While resistance bands are a great piece of equipment on their own, allowing portable strength training, a resistance bands door attachment greatly improves the number of moves and exercises you can add to your home workout.

With the resistance bands door attachment you are able to get pull up moves and great rowing exercises for your arms, back, chest, and shoulders. You can also attach the bands at hip level for excellent resistance while jogging in place or doing lunges. Slightly increasing the resistance for cardio moves allows for a great increase in exertion and calorie burning!

The resistance bands door attachment is easily installed and easily removed, allowing you to temporarily transform any hinged doorway into a piece of gym equipment.

For chin up moves, attach the resistance bands door attachment to the highest hinge. You can then sit or kneel on the floor to get the right amount of resistance for your moves. If you are looking to add resistance to cardio moves or want to try some moves at a lower level, you simply move the resistance bands door attachment to either the middle or bottom hinge. By slightly moving the location of the attachment, you open up a whole new variety of great strength training moves.

Our resistance bands door attachment is great for any home workout system. It is an exceptional and almost necessary addition to both the P90X series and the 10 Minute Trainer collection. Both of these workout systems provide you with excellent moves for use with the resistance bands and with the resistance bands door attachment.

How To Continue Your P90X Workouts On Vacation

Staff — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:37:28 +0000

You took the big step and decided to take your fitness to a new level with the P90X workout system. The living room is set up for your workouts. You’ve got your TV and DVD player—a place for the resistance bands—the chin-up bar is up-—you’ve started the workouts and you’re starting to see the results. Everything is going great! And then before you know it, the time has come for that long-anticipated vacation. And your suddenly faced with the problem of how you are going to travel and keep up with your workouts.

Don’t worry! P90X prepared for eventualities just like this. They developed alternative ways to do all of the 12 different workouts when you can’t be in the comfort of your own home.

First of all, you will need to have access to a television and a DVD player. These days this really isn’t a problem whether you are vacationing in the United States or somewhere else in the world. It’s almost impossible to find lodging that doesn’t have a TV. Most also offer accessibility to DVD players. If yours doesn’t, pop you’re DVD right into your laptop computer, almost all laptops come factory installed with DVD software.

The next thing you are going to need is the P90X resistance bands. Most people get them when they get the P90X system. But if you have been working out at home with your own free weights—you are going to need to get some resistance bands for the trip. Resistance bands are incredibly lightweight and can work almost anywhere.

So, what about the chin-up bar? You’re not going to want to lug that thing in your suitcase. The P90X Resistance Bands Upgrade Kit is the answer! This kit is fantastic because it will allow you to do all the exercises you were doing at home on the P90X Chin-Up Bar—you can modify your moves to develop chest flys, thigh and glute exercises, and even cardio training. It comes with a door attachment which you can use on the door of your room–you can loop your resistance band through and continue with the workout. The DVD will also show you how to do the workouts using this alternative to the chin-up bar. Plus the P90X Resistance Band Upgrade Kit comes with an easy to follow instruction booklet.

Most hotels, motels, lodges, bed and breakfasts and the like have wall-to-wall carpeting. In fact, sometimes the carpeting is very soft and plush, and while it may be great for walking on with bare feet, it may not be quite as great when it comes to doing your push-up-type exercises. If this is the case for you, check out the P90X Push-Up Stands. They are small, lightweight, and help keep your nose out of the carpet when you rock out your push-ups! The stands also allow you to have a greater range of motion, which can intensify your workouts. They have non-skid rubber feet and provide a safe, stable foundation.

We know how important the P90X Training System is for improving your life. So, no matter where you are going on vacation, Contact us and we’ll help set you up with everything you’ll need

How to modify P90X Chin-Up Bar routines with Resistance Bands

Staff — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:09:05 +0000

The P90X Chin-Up Bar is the perfect piece of equipment to help in developing your shoulders, back and arms. It’s recommended that you have it before starting to use your P90X videos. The P90X Chin-Up Bar really has a unique design. The bar doesn’t fit inside the door frame like most other bars on the market. Instead it extends past the width of the door frame so you can do wide-grip pull-ups and a lot of other pull-up exercises that are really fun. With the P90X Chin-Up Bar you can really take your workout to the next level, strengthening and developing your back, shoulders and arms with 6 different grip positions. Plus the bar is super-strong, holding your weight up to a max of 300 lbs.

But what if you just don’t have a good doorway to install it in? Does that mean you have to miss out on all these great chin-ups and pull-ups? And what about when you have to go out of town for work or on vacation? What can you do in your hotel room? What are you going to use then? Well, those inventive people who developed the P90X Chin-Up Bar have also come up with an answer just for these types of occasions. After all, you don’t want to hit a plateau just because you don’t have an appropriate doorway for the bar.

Resistance Bands are the answer! Sure, you’re already using them for all those other exercises and moves so you know how handy they can be. You don’t need to lug around heavy weights. Resistance bands are easy to use and they don’t take up any room at all. And they provide all the resistance you need to develop your entire range of muscles to give yourself a total body workout. Resistance bands come in different colors signifying different weights. They also come in different weight strengths for men and women. Or you can simply buy one complete resistance band kit that has the whole range of weights.

Another great thing about these resistance bands is that they can be used on moves that that would usually be done on the P90X Chin-Up Bar. There’s something called the Resistance Bands Upgrade Kit which will help you do all the P90X Chin-Up Bar exercises if you don’t have a doorway handy or if you simply are not yet advanced enough to use the bar. This can be a troublesome area for some people.

The Resistance Bands comes with a door attachment that you can loop your resistance band through and do modified routines that would normally be done on the P90X Chin-Up Bar. You probably already know that the workout routines ask you to do chin-ups, pull-ups, etc. But did you also know that the videos will show you how to use the Upgrade Kit alternative, as well as the P90X Chin-Up Bar? Each workout that requires the use of the Chin-Up Bar also shows you the modified move that can be done with the bands and Upgrade Kit.

So why not give it a try. With both the P90X Chin-Up Bar and the Resistance Band Upgrade Kit you can be prepared for any situation. You won’t have to miss any of your workout no matter where you are!

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