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- Howdy folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
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- Yeah!
- We're the most famous physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today, we're going to talking about,
we're going to do a comparison.
- That's right!
- Loop bands versus large loop bands.
What is better? You must know this.
- Right. If you're on the fence,
you don't know which one to buy.
We're going to show you exactly the benefits and the cons,
and what's going to work best for you.
- I don't think you can really go wrong, Brad.
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Banding, you know, using resistance bands has come
extremely popular in the last few years.
I think Tom Brady is one of the best examples-
- Right.
- of elite athletes.
- High level athlete, obviously.
- Right.
- Goat
- Yeah, what is he, fifty years old?
No, he's forty four?
- I believe, 44.
- And he's playing football at the highest level.
- Right. With all the rest of the great 24-year olds.
- Right, right.
- And this is what he uses.
He does not use-
- Easier on the joints.
- Right.
The book that he has,
I don't think he uses weights at all anymore.
- No, I don't think so.
- Exactly.
So anyways, other benefits that you can have with
either two band, the typical two band,
or like Bob has, the loop bands,
they're both great products. I use both of them.
Some of the benefits, uh
oppose, both of them as opposed to weights.
If you were wondering, maybe I should get weights instead.
Well, these are cheaper.
- Yeah.
- They're...
- Take up less space.
- Much less space.
- Right.
- And also, you don't have to buy so many accessories,
like a heavy bench, you know,
a big rack for squatting
that big steel stuff that costs money.
- Exactly.
- Gets in your way.
You know, if you want that stuff, that's fine.
But if you don't, these you will get-
- These will do the job.
- They will.
All right. You know, if you want big, massive muscles-
- Right.
- Maybe these aren't going to, but if you want fitness,
strength, balance, all those things-
- Athleticism
- Right.
These are the things.
They're effortless for resistance changing.
You don't have to put weights on
you just simply change-
- You can put more bands on.
- Right.
- Or you can move away further from the-
- From the anchor point.
Exactly.
Now with weights,
you can only lift weights with a vertical plane though,
the resistance is always going down.
- Right. Right.
- With this you'll find out you, can go vertical.
You can go the other direction, up.
You can pull from angles, the horizontal.
- Horizontal angle yup.
- That's what makes it so handy.
- Right!
And they're portable.
- Yes!
You just throw them in your lunch bag.
That's where are you going
to probably want to use this-
Lunch bag
You're going to want to use the wall anchor,
I mean the door anchor,
- Right!
Yep. And we're going to talk about that a little bit too.
And you can bring, you know,
you go to a hotel room and use these.
So anyways, there's a lot of benefits.
The next thing I do want to talk about Bob is we do have our
own, I'm not putting a plug in for us,
but if you want a good anchor,
you can guarantee that the ones that have our name on them
in the handles and everything,
- These are really excellent handles.
We were very picky about that
- and, and far as the stretch bands and whatnot,
but you can get a lot of other ones
that are good quality as well.
So I would do your best with that.
Uh next thing, this is what they come with.
The loops typically four or five loops
- and two handles
- Ours come with two handles.
Not all of them come with the handles and ours does come
with not all of them comes with one of these.
And this is for, you can put it to a door,
- A door yes
- We use wall anchors, or you can go to a fence post or a...
- The wall anchor has to,
- handrail
- The wall anchors have to be bought
separately
- Right that is true
They have to be attached into a stud into the wall.
And we'll show you how those works to be very clear.
And the ankle strap comes with the tubes.
It does not come with the loop strap,
but you don't need one
- Because you can loop your ankle
inside.
- Right and it's very convenient. So you don't,
you don't need one of those.
So uh and and again,
a price between is pretty similar.
You know, there's a few dollars difference, but it's,
it's not a game changer in my book.
So, shall we demonstrate? - Sure!
- Okay,
this,
this is a complete body demonstration.
We've got seven different exercises and we're going to
demonstrate how you do it with the loop bands,
the tube bands. And then if you have an anchor system,
- Sure.
- Alright.
Whether it's sending it to the door with the strap provided,
or you have wall anchors or you go off your bed post,
- I'm just going to do curls here using the loop bands and
you can actually get pretty good resistance here.
- Right
So Bob is using one foot.
I do the same thing with the tube band.
And if I want more resistance or Bob could do this too,
you put two feet in there and that offers more resistance.
- Right.
- Now, if you want to,
if you have something to anchor down the wall,
now we can just go down on the wall anchor,
whip it on there quickly. And the, this works really well.
And you can work like this. If you want more resistance,
you simply walk away from the wall and do that.
- And what I do Brad sometimes I actually double them up.
- Yeah when Bob was really trying to pump up that bicep,
- Yeah The final few pumps I'll get that thing
- Feel strong like bull
- There we go.
There you go. This is, this is the way I do it.
Literally, Bob, I really
- Yeah I know you like this.
- I do
- It really isolates
the uh bicep muscles
- It forces isolation and good posture,
and it helps you get up.
- Yeah.
All right. Triceps.
Should we talk about triceps Bob?
- Sure
So what I like to do, I mean, if you're going to use these,
you really can't just go around your body.
You can't go like this, you run out of length.
- They're too short because
of the handles.
- You go around actually, a chair.
- Nope you missed the chair.
- I missed the chair.
- Yep. There you go.
- Okay.
And I'm going to grab like this and you can work on your
triceps
- Nice seated position.
- This actually works pretty good Brad.
- Yeah.
And you can do it this way. I don't like to do it this way,
but you can,
if you don't have a shoulder problem and it feels
comfortable,
this is done by a lot of people.
- Well it certainly can be done with
the wall anchors too.
- Yeah, exactly.
Bob, you can, you know,
I wish these weren't set for you Bob,
because they're too tall,
but I'm going to show this is the way I do them and this is
my preferred way to do it.
- Brad likes to be on the floor apparently.
Well It really is a nice way to exer-
- I have done this one, Brad,
I will agree with you. I have done this one.
- That isolates so well my elbows,
my shoulders are planted to the floor
and I just changed the resistance by
doing the inch worm to come out.
And if you want to do the double one and really focus
that works as well.
- So I do.
- Oh
oh, is that better?
Sorry about that. People out there in YouTube land.
- Yeah I like to do dips
and then follow up with some of the
isolation strengthening.
- Aw Sure.
Hey, so there we go.
Shall we go to the chest?
- Sure.
Again, you can go around a chair.
- Yep.
- I'll do it right this time.
And you can do this with the loops or the tubes,
they're pretty similar.
I think the handles work a little better on the tubes
because they got some carabiner clips that worked
better, but that's not a big deal.
There's an advantage to the loop and I'm going to,
we're coming up to that.
- If I pull my seat forward more,
I get more resistance.
- Sure
- There we go.
- Now this is an alternative,
but you cannot use the handles.
I'm going to grab up here and it works. It's okay.
It's acceptable.
- Not my favorite.
I'd rather do mine on the floor with the handles.
The other option is if you have,
if you have something at this level,
this is what I wanted to use before
and I didn't think of it.
And you can simply work it like this.
As a matter of fact,
that goes good with the biceps like that as well.
And then you're working core as well,
which is really good advantage,
which doesn't happen on the floor.
- Exactly
Wow, Bob, we're we're doing well.
- Moving right along
- Exactly. Now squats.
- Sure.
- With the band,
I don't use the bands for the tube for for scratch,
but it works okay.
This, I'll go like this over
and this works fairly good.
It's a personal thing.
- Yeah for me, I've found that just air,
air squats are good enough for me.
- This is where I use the heavier one.
And you can double loops up if you want,
if this isn't enough,
they used to have a bigger one than this,
but there's been an issue with,
what do they call it?
- Cost
- Yeah.
Supply and demand and cost.
Now this is the way I really like
using a loop band for this,
for those squats.
- Kind of works a little bit of posture, right Brad?
Yeah.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Cause I'm I'm back and I'm back like this.
- Right right,
keeps your back straight.
- I'm not doing this.
- In fact, if you do it wrong,
it kind of punishes you
- Right. Exactly.
Now I'm going to keep it right there.
I'm going to pull up here.
Now. This is for the hip, sideways
walking, working on hip abductors.
Now this works pretty good with a loop.
I actually like it a little better with the handles,
which you could use with there, usually
any thing with the larger loop, you can do
with the handles
and see, I've got two bands on here.
You can put three,
you can put four.
Vary the resistance on this by where you
put your hands.
Okay, good.
Yeah. Well, I'm starting to get tired Bob.
- I can hear it in your voice
Now there is one thing that works.
You know, if you have your loop, take a smaller loop,
put that in the anchor.
And this is why you don't need,
- Right why you don't need the strap
- Hip this way, hip this way.
It does jump around like that.
It want to run climb,
It wants to to climb climb up your leg.
Alright, I'll get it out yet.
Brad
- So this is
the option.
When you have the loop band here,
this is where the anchor shines. You just simply,
you don't have to spend a lot of time with that.
And I'm going to simply pop this off here.
And as a matter of fact,
I'm just going to use the yellow one.
- That way you can see it.
- Yep. There we go.
And this, this is better than the loop. I have to apologize.
I don't do a lot of these. These are open chain.
I do the closed chain ones like we did before,
but these are nice,
especially for balance.
- Ah, very good
- Bob, but wait, Bob, there's more,
- He wants to work the core a little bit.
So he's doing sit-up planks,
you're doing standing planks in a sense.
- Yes. Well, this is one of my favorite.
- Sure.
- I think your favorite too.
And you can do this with either the tube or the loop
and you go out like this
and you stir the pot.
Core is tight and I go farther
- Out of all the exercises we show,
this looks like the easiest,
but it's probably one of the harder ones,
it really is deceptive,
its really a lot more work than you think it is
- Exactly
- It's working that core
and you don't see it.
- Right
- So
- So again, you know,
if we were going to do it with this, this works really,
handy-dandy
just put this up here.
And these things are just handy as can be.
It is hard for me to decide sometimes,
which is the better exercise to loop or the band.
I personally have a set of both and I use them both.
I do use the bands,
the tube bands with this, is my primary way to work out for
70% of my exercises I think.
Now this is a really neat way,
if you like planks,
but you're getting bored with them.
Watch this. This is going to be your baby.
Put this in here.
I'm going to need you to move Bob.
- Sure I'll get out the way.
- We've done this before.
It's been awhile and it's called planks with movement
Oops. Did you just hear that Tanner?
So I don't like static planks,
but if we do planks like this,
this makes a big difference.
- That is work
- Yep.
- I was going to say,
I can barely do that without the band.
- And it really is for those advanced people.
And I don't do a lot of these.
I have a number of other exercises that aren't good for my
spondylolisthesis.
That's my excuse for working less harder,
but that's a really nice way to get those high level people.
- Wow.
- All right Brad,
you've done very well once again.
- So Bob, what's better for these people.
- I would, I actually liked the bands better.
- The, the tube?
- I actually like the tube better.
Okay. So Bob voted for the tube bands and actually,
I guess if-
Along with the wall anchor,
If I didn't have the wall anchor,
I'd go with the other one.
- With the loop band?
Yeah. I would agree.
And for traveling, these.
This is what I use
because I don't put the handle in with it
because you can do all these exercises without the handle.
If you're not doing them every day
and its uh
you know, it's a one-time deal.
You keep one at your desk
and just work on posture.
- Sure. Yep. Yeah.
Yeah. So I hope we've-
- We haven't cleared up anything have we?
- As clear as mud huh?
- They're both good.
- Either way, just follow these and
you're going to do well.
You're going to get stronger,
better balance, and better looking.
See.
- And less pain. Very good.