- Okay, Brad.
We're gonna show you...
We're okay?
- Clear? - Oh. Oh.
Okay, we're gonna show you why,
and how this strengthens your biceps,
and why bands might be better than weights.
- That's right.
Believe it or not.
It's kinda like the Ripley thing.
- (laughs) That's right.
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- All right.
If you're gonna strengthen with regular weights,
like hand weights,
you go up here,
you start lifting.
It's really hard right at this point,
where-- - Right.
- Maximal gravity.
- You got the longest leverage--
- Lever arm, right?
But you get past that point,
and it gets a little easier,
because now your gravity eliminated it.
- Right.
It's still there,
but the leverage is so much shorter.
- So right, you (strains).
- Yeah (laughs).
- Now, as supposed to bands,
where you actually...
I'm gonna pull up,
and there's more and more resistance,
as I go further and further.
- Right, the band gets tighter and tighter,
the higher you go.
Now, we don't recommend you wrap it around your leg.
This is strictly for demonstration of that point.
- Now you can do both.
You can actually take a weight
and hook a band around it,
and go like this.
- Right.
- The best of both worlds.
- Right.
But not like this.
- Right.
So Brad's gonna show our wall anchors.
- Yeah.
Okay, so we're gonna demonstrate,
how you can do this functionally at home.
There's two options.
You need to have an anchor.
We're using wall anchors,
that are actually screwed to the walls very well.
If you don't have that-- - There are also door anchors.
- You'll have a door anchor.
This comes with almost every band set there is,
- All right. - I'm pretty sure.
And this, you need to open the door up.
The padded part goes in,
you close the door,
and you put it at the level that you want.
- Right, absolutely.
- We're gonna start at a low level.
- Now, remember there's two heads to the biceps.
Long head and the short head.
- That's right.
- And he could show how to favor one head over the other.
- This is one option.
You can do it like this.
- Right.
- You know, if you want more resistance,
you can simply double,
and give it double the resistance.
- And if you send the arm, the shoulder.
- Yep.
- You get more of the long head.
- So, we're gonna step farther away,
and go like this.
And Bob and I were just talking,
I said I just started doing this,
except for I went to a higher level,
and it actually,
I think it actually gets at that long head,
even a little easier,
because you it's just a different angle.
And back here. - Huh?
I'll have to try it.
- Yeah, give it a try.
I really, I like it.
Plus it extends the shoulder which can be a good stretch.
So we're back here,
you're getting a little bit of a stretch,
and then you can work that bicep right there.
- Yeah, make sure you're comfortable.
- If you don't have either one of these,
and you lost your strap,
you know, you can step like this,
and do the short head.
- Right.
- It's gonna be really difficult to try the long head.
- So short head.
You can even keep holding like this,
and even turn the arms out a little bit.
- So gonna go here and externally rotate a little bit.
- Right.
- And take a look at 'em.
- Yeah, yeah.
Then you get that bulge, you know.
Curls for the girls, you know.
(both laughing)
They're gonna be after me.
And it's like that never helped me.
(both laughing)
- Very simple.
I like to do 10 with the long head.
- Yep.
- Then switch around and do five with the short head.
- Why just five with the short head?
- Because I do it right away.
- Oh, so fatigue. - Fatigue.
- All right. - Right, right.
- Again, the bands are so nice,
'cause you can vary the resistance by walking away,
from the anchor. - Yeah.
- Or you can just double up the bands,
get different resistance.
The colors determine that.
- By the way, I do three sets of 15.
- Three?
Oh, a ten and a five? - Three sets of 15.
A ten and a five.
- I just do one set of 10.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Mashed potatoes (laughs).
- Why, Bob? Why?