Video: How to Use Resistance Bands to Do Isometric Exercises

Resistance bands are integral tools for doing isometric exercises. Learn about resistance bands and isometric exercises with help from the director of personal training at Elevation Fitness in this free video clip.

Video Transcript

My name is Jeremy Manning founder of Uplift Project and director of personal training at Elevation Fitness. Today we'll be covering core training with resistance bands. We'll be using a medium weight resistance band and a lightweight resistance band. Starting with the lightweight resistance band there's two ways to hold it, either the outside grip or the inside slip. So the first thing we want to do is elbows back, biceps in line with your spine, chest up, shoulder blades in your back pocket and we're going to do an external rotation. Go ahead and rotate your shoulders all the way out as far as you comfortably can and stop and hold. Belly button drawn in. You're going to hold it for 30 seconds, breathing in and out at a nice steady pace. Great and next we're going to do an oblique rotation with a resistance band. So you want to start off with your feet hip width apart, chest up, shoulders back. First outside hand is going to grab the handle and then reach over that same hand, rotate to the center of your chest and hold, belly button drawn in, remember to breathe nice and easy, inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth and release. Next we're going to execute an isometric single arm row. This is really great for strengthening your upper back and your overall posture. So what you're going to do is sit down into a semi squat so just sit down a little bit into it, bring your elbow back as far as you comfortably can, your forearm is going to be in line with the floor, belly button drawn in, chest up, shoulders back. I'm Jeremy Manning and we just covered isometric exercises with the resistance band.

How to Use Resistance Bands to Do Isometric Exercises

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