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What's up guys, Jeff Cavaliere , athleanx.com!
I gotta start off with remediate a mistake.
Last week I came out at the end of my workout and I showed you the new bands that we have
the ATHLEAN ELAST-X Bands.
They weren't ready yet, they were ready but the website wasn't.
But that has now been taken care of.
ATHLEAN ELAST-X Bands, we have the black one here and the red band, basically the thicker
band.
You've seen me do a bunch of stuff on these videos with these bands and now you can get
them yourself.
So what I figures was, I wanna show you something really cool here, a different use of the bands,
something we haven't done yet.
We've always use it to assist our own body weight and how to do something easier, like
one arm pull up, one arm pushups, even if we can't do pull-ups, you know two arm pull
up.
But now I'll show you something different.
I took two of the black bands here and if you look at the set up, I basically went through
a squat rack, I put down an Olympic bar, there is actually 205 pounds down here, there is
a 35 on the inside, there is a 45 on the outside and I put the band around the bar, so now
we've got them on both sides, one band down here in the middle of the squat rack, one
band over here at this side.
What is gonna do is, it's gonna allow me to do what is possibly one of the greatest exercise
you could possibly do, the bent over row.
The bent over row is some of the difficult exercise because it will compromise, bad form
will compromise how much you can lift and also set you up for an injury.
And we know that low backs are, you know, commonly injured due to bad posture.
So, let's say I was down here.
The hardest part of the bent over row is this part, getting it off the ground.
What these bands will do is actually assist me at the hardest part of the motion which
is down here to get it going.
Once I pass through this neutral position here I'll be able to still squeeze it up but
not no more help from the bands and that's fine because we wanna be able to have that
key contraction at the top without the assistance of the bands.
So, it sort of works out as our best friend in this situation.
It really is easy to set up.
So let me show you a couple of reps here.
Ok, you wanna sit your low back up, with a slight arch and hold on to it, you're gonna
get down to the bar you're not gonna bend like this, I hate that when I see that.
Straight down, we'll lift it up with a little bit of help with the bar and we're gonna do
our bent over row.
So just about shoulder width apart, up to here, lift and down.
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And again, a little balance in the bottom, obviously not enough for just make the thing
come back up, but enough to give me just that little bit of assistance to get it up from
the bottom of the rep and help me squeeze in that little bit more effort and get better
results.
So, if you haven't already guys, put the bands aside, ATHLEAN-X it's a Training System in
90 days designed to get you in that athletic and fit body, ripped, looking better.
You can get that at athleanx.com.
And If you wanna increase the variety of your workouts even beyond what ATHLEAN-X does start
add these bands training in to what you're doing.
So, again we have the thinner band here for assistance to exercises like these.
We've got the thicker red one from when I'm doing, warm-up pull up assistance, regular
pull up assistance, fire up scrambles like we did on MMA Workout.
So, guys we'll be back here again next week with another one great video.
Keep the comments coming, it's always good, it's how I get my ideas for the videos to
come back for you guys.
Thanks a lot!