THERABAND Heavy-Duty Resistance Bands provide you with strong elastic resistance to advance your rehabilitation and rehabilitation exercises in the clinic and during at-home physical therapy.
Learn more about THERABAND High Resistance Bands:
Select the high resistance band that fits your strength level and add these resistance band workouts to your routine!
5 THERABAND Heavy Resistance Band Exercises: Steps & Images
1. Bicep Curl
- Begin by standing on the heavy-duty fitness band with both feet shoulder-width apart
- Hold the band with both hands, palms facing up toward the ceiling
- Curl your hands upward towards your shoulders, while keeping your elbows at your sides
- Slowly return to your starting position and repeat
2. Front Squat
- Begin by standing on the band with both feet shoulder-width apart
- Hold the heavy resistance band above your shoulders with your palms up and elbows bent
- Push your hips back and lower your body into a squat, as if you’re sitting in a chair
- Keep your knees over your ankles
- Push up from the squat, return to your starting position, and repeat
3. Overhead Press
- Begin by standing on the band with both feet shoulder-width apart
- Hold the band in both hands, just outside your shoulders with your palms facing forward
- Press the THERABAND resistance band upward, directly over your shoulders, until your arms are straight
- Return to your starting position and repeat
4. Lunge
- Place the band over your shoulder
- Stand with one foot in front of you and one foot behind you
- Stand on the high resistance band with your forward foot
- Go into a lunge
- Bend your back leg into a kneeling position
- Keep your knee over your ankle as your front leg moves into position
- Push back up to your starting position and repeat
- Switch to the opposite leg and repeat
5. Deadlift
- Stand on top of the band with your feet wider than shoulder-width apart
- Grab the high-strength resistance band with both hands, creating two separate loops around your feet
- Point your toes forward and slightly bend your knees
- Tighten your core and keep your chest up with your head facing forward
- Drive your hips back, but not lower than your knees - this is your starting position
- Contract your glutes and drive them forward, while standing up
- Pause, then return to your starting position, then repeat
Are You Stretching the High Resistance Band Enough While Exercising?
Each THERABAND fitness band has a visual indicator printed directly on the band. When the oval surrounding the resistance band is stretched into a circle, the band has reached 100% elongation.
Learn more about how visual indicators benefit patients during THERABAND Heavy Resistance Band exercises.
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