The first time I ever used tension bands in my workout was in a fitness class at the place I work at, which I’m lucky enough to say has a full service gym, complete with yoga classes, cardio classes, and a full array of fitness equipment at our disposal, which is pretty cool.

I was exhausted when we were done, and I was convinced that the tension bands added the extra exhaustion factor also, because I could barely even lift a drink of water to my mouth the next day afterwards, since most of the tension band work we did was on our arms, concentrating on our biceps, triceps and upper body strength in general, which pretty much wiped me out.

I’ll admit, my upper body strength is definitely not my forte, but my lower body strength is, because I was an especially adept swimmer as a kid, and my legs, abs and lower body were always the strongest physical part of my body. The tension bands are just bands of elastic which are attached to handlebars that you can grab with yout arms.

You can even adjust them to work your legs, and also to work different parts of your upper body, and you can manually increase or decrease the tension of the tension bands by either slackening them by letting up on them, or stepping on them further up to increase the tension and the muscle workout.

I’ll tell you what, if you want to take your workout to the next level, then tension bands will leave you feeling like you just got your butt kicked!

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