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- I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Oh, We are ready, Brad Heineck, physical therapists.
Together, we are the most famous
physical therapist on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna talk about
the best resistance bands made.
We're gonna show you how to build muscles,
core and balance.
And we got five great exercises,
that we're gonna demonstrate.
And this is an updated video,
by the way,
we had done this before.
- Right.
- Now we're redoing it because we want to improve things.
- Right. Anyway we're gonna have a little bit of twist
on the exercises
and we got some better bands to show you.
Now, Bob we've been using bands for years
and therapists have been using resistance bands.
- I don't mean to cut you off, Brad.
- Oo.
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- [Brad] Oh.
- [Bob] We're giving away the handheld massager this week.
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- [Brad] It is.
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- [Brad] Right.
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- [Bob] You can give it as a gift
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(both laughing)
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- [Brad] Why Bob? (Brad laughing)
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- [Bob] You can also go on our podcast.
- Oh yeah the podcast.
- I feel good when I make you laugh like that.
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- All right.
All right Brad,
as I interrupted you.
- That's all right Bob, I'm used to it.
Anyways, what we would like to say is,
we've been working stretch bands, TheraBands
whatever you want to call 'em.
I guess you can't say TheraBands,
- Right.
- 'cause that's the name of a manufacturer,
but therapeutically,
therapists have been using these decades.
- Oh, I've been using it for almost,
oh God, I don't even want to say.
- Yeah, before you had gray hair.
- It's been 35 years
- Yup exactly.
- And now they're very popular.
- Yeah. - This is all I use.
I use stretch bands at home
and body weight. - You don't even use weights.
- Not at all, except for, like I said,
body weight. - Body weight.
- Yup, and I'm very happy and pleased with the results.
And what we decided is, we found out that
boy there's a lot of different brands out there,
- Quality bands. - different quality.
Sometimes they snap.
I've had four of 'em snap in three years.
It's not that fun.
It's kind of painful,
but you know, bands,
even the best of the best,
- Best ones are gonna snap, eventually.
- Are gonna snap, if you use 'em,
- On a regular basis.
- Yeah.
- You have to keep an eye on 'em, basically.
You have to look and see first
some signs of wear
or the fact that it's starting to work its way through.
- We can talk a little bit about that as we go through.
But in general, you're not going to have a problem.
And with ours, that's how we picked out.
- We wanted the highest quality ones.
- Yup, so we actually have bands right here.
They come in a set of five, 150 pounds.
They have the weight on each band, up here.
They've got nice,
these Carabiner clips, which we like
'cause they're very strong.
They're not going to break.
And with the set, it comes with two ankle straps.
Here's the one.
I'm wearing the other one.
Now a door anchor, if you're a beginner
or you don't have anything else,
it comes with this door anchor
that goes into a door.
So you can hook the strap onto this loop
and you can move it at different heights.
We use a wall anchor
and you'll see why we do that.
But this comes along with it
- You gotta be sure the door's been locked
- Yeah, no one walks in from the other side.
- Brad, you didn't mention the handles.
- Oh. - Look at those handles.
- We're really proud of our handles,
- Yeah.
- because these are really high quality. These aren't gonna,
you're gonna be pleased with the handles.
- We hang body weight on there all the time.
We've tested 'em.
They're good.
And it comes with this little bag
that you can put it in there
and it's air and air free and all that good stuff.
So, shall we get on?
- Yeah, let's get on, Brad.
- Well, let's talk about the big tool,
especially if you're a guy,
you want to work those arms, the curls, biceps
- And the triceps. - and the triceps.
Go ahead, Bob.
- Oh, no. I'm not using a big band here, Brad.
I normally would have like probably.
- That's as big as he can handle.
(both laughing)
- What's that now?
- Go on. You're doing fine, Bob.
- Normally, I would have probably
at least three bands on here.
And you can put more than one band on at a time.
- With the anchor you mean.
- With the anchor. - Yeah, I've put up to four.
Not with the heavy one,
but like smaller ones. Like takes a little situating here.
- But two or three is very common.
- But try subsequently to keep your elbows into the side
and you're going to focus right on the triceps here.
Now this would not nearly be enough for me
but you could also,
you could also bend down like this
and get a little quad workout while you're doing the sets.
- And then you've got the wall
to help maintain your posture.
- Sometimes you can even double up like this.
- Sure.
- You can warm up with one set
and then you can double up
by going over on to the other side.
- Yep, and get that intensity level.
- I do that with biceps a lot.
- Are you going to show the bicep one?
- I can.
- Yeah, go ahead.
Absolutely, Bob.
- So, let's see.
We'll want that lower.
- Now the darker band is a little heavier resistance
and that's pretty typical of all resistance bands.
- And I do try the biceps the same way.
I start down and I usually start with one,
just warming up.
- So, do both at the same time.
Yup. - Yeah.
And then I'll go to the doubles.
And again, you could stand further away from the wall
and you can increase the amount of resistance then.
- Right.
Go ahead, go a little farther if you want, Bob.
Oh.
- Am I bulging?
- Oh my God.
Look at those biceps.
Now Bob's 60 years old.
Most 60 year olds, don't have a bulge like that. (laughing)
- Oh. Yeah. (laughing)
- Well.
- It's a family show, Brad.
- I know, well, let's carry on. I want to show mine.
- Okay.
- If my wife,
- Now what are you gonna show, what?
- My exercise.
- Yeah, I know. - Just leave that down there.
- This is deteriorating very quickly.
- Well, this is at home.
This is where I found this method out, kinda by accident.
I was laying on the floor resting.
And I grabbed these
and wow I can do my biceps laying down.
Keep my shoulders flat, elbows flat, perfect form.
Cross my legs,
so it doesn't get in the way.
And I'll do my 10 to 15 here.
Get my biceps.
- [Bob] Now, if you want to work core,
you'd want to stand up.
- Yup. Ya get a little more.
- But if you really want to focus on the muscle.
Then you're doing what Brad does.
'Cause this really isolates the bicep and the tricep.
- And the neat thing about it is,
if you're not really ambitious that day,
between sets you can just sit and relax
and contemplate life for a while
and then go to your next set.
Anyways.
- And if your arms get big enough
you can get a tattoo on them then.
That muscle.
- Yeah, I'm still working on that.
- Yeah, me too.
- Bob, do you want to show squats?
- Oh sure.
- Which squats?
- Let's grab the yellow one here.
- Oh.
The yellow one.
(both laughing)
Now also there are loops.
We have our names on loops that we found.
We really like this.
I really liked the loops as well.
I just started using the last month.
- Yeah you're a big fan.
I like to use them for mobilization, Brad.
- Oh sure.
- I've been doing a lot of that lately.
So you can just again, take the type,
you know the amount of resistance that you want
and you're gonna bring it up like this
and then you can just squat down
and you're gonna get resistance on the way down
and resistance on the way up.
I'm gonna see if I can squat down lower, Brad.
I've been trying to work on this.
- Yeah. - Yeah, I hit the table.
- So look up.
Make sure you breathe.
- Yup.
- I like it when you bring your hands back like this
because it really promotes proper posture and
- Right. Good point, Brad.
- body mechanics. - This is a lot better.
- Oh boy. Look at that arch in the back.
You can't see it from your angle
but guarantee it's looking good.
There you go.
- Okay.
All right.
What are we up to now, Brad?
- Well, do you want to show the hip abductor side walking?
- Oh, sure. So basically you just stick this out.
- This is a really good way to get those hips,
abductors and weight-bearing.
- [Bob] so I'm just working my way around the room
and this is great for hitting those muscles
on the outside of the hip.
Really important for balance.
It looks easy, but I tell you
if you do that particularly with the right size band.
Yeah, now remember safety first, too, now.
I don't want anybody falling with this.
You might have to creep along a wall.
So, that if you fall, you lean against the wall
or don't do it, if you're a little bit concerned
about your balance.
- Right.
You can hook it up like this with the ankle strap,
that's what they're for
and work that same muscle.
But you can see it's open chain
or non-weightbearing.
- [Bob] Right.
- [Brad] Which does, it's quite a difference
in how you work the muscle, but it works well.
You can also do the hip in all four directions.
All these we're looking 10 to 15 repetitions.
Oh, even extensors.
I'm going through this kind of quick
but I think you get the idea, how that works.
- [Bob] Right. Scapular retraction, Brad.
- So,
- Yes.
- I can go,
the thing about this exercise
you can actually do it from any one of the three levels.
By the way, if you get the wall anchor
from our website, BobandBrad.
- Right.
- You actually get four of 'em.
Otherwise, if you buy it on Amazon, you get three of 'em.
- Yeah. And that's a heck of a deal,
'cause it's the same price.
- Well, it just gives you another option.
You know what I mean?
- Well, absolutely.
- So here I can squeeze my shoulder blades.
I'm gonna come along like this a little bit, Brad.
So they can see, I can squeeze my shoulder blades together.
I can externally rotate my shoulders,
which helps work against the internal rotators,
which tends to happen with the pectoralis major and minor.
They tend to intermingle with it there
- Oh yeah, yup. Exactly.
- So, that's the one I like to do, Brad.
I like to bring it back
and then to externally rotate like this.
And the whole thing about this exercise.
You can do 30 reps.
You can do 50 reps.
It's not, it's a toning muscle.
It's not, we're trying to really bulk it up.
- Right. Yeah.
We're working posture and good health.
I just discovered this.
I put it down like this
and you don't need an anchor or anything.
And you go like this
and I'm gonna do the external rotation like this.
And so you have resistances down.
Making the shoulders work in one direction.
And we're doing the external rotation with the band here.
And it really is a nice way to get that upper back,
the muscles all the way across your upper traps,
middle traps really working hard.
It's a good workout.
- Not bad.
I gotta give Brad credit.
You're very creative.
You come up, you're always adjusting the exercises
and modify them.
- Well, thank you Bob.
Anything else good to say about me?
- I'm really proud of ya. (laughing)
- We should show lats
because this is an advantage. - Oh, did we skip alts?
- Yes, we skipped it, but that's okay.
You don't lat pulls.
You typically, you can't do it with weights.
You have to have a cable system.
- Yeah, lats are the probably the biggest one,
that is very difficult to do at home.
- Yup. It is.
- So, what you're gonna do is,
I'm going to go ahead, and whoops, twisted here,
so I'm a little bit tall for this
but it's doable, right?
- Yup.
- And so I'm gonna just bring it down like this.
- Sure.
- You know I'm flyin' like an eagle. (laughing)
- Whatever Bob, keep doin',
Now Bob, you know, he's six and a half foot tall.
Now, if I were to do that
'cause I'm about eight inches shorter than him.
Can I show, Bob?
- Sure.
- This is the way I would do these at home.
I just go back up against the wall
and I go into a partial squat
and it's just a different angle,
different approach.
- And again you're gettin'
- This yellow is really light, Bob
- Yeah, I know it is.
I was just showing.
- No.
- I was just demonstrating.
- Sure. Sure.
(Bob laughing)
- No, that's a good lat exercise.
- I don't even do those, cause I do pull ups.
I have to defend myself in front of you.
(both laughing)
- Sorry, Bob.
- All right.
Remember, Brad, I can fix just about anything.
- Except for
- Our own relationship here.
We can fix a broken heart.
- There you go.
- No, we can't fix a broken heart.
- Oh yeah, we're working on that.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Anyways, I hope you liked the exercises.
I'm sure you'll love the bands.
Take care and God bless.
- Peace out.
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