Safety Tips for Rubber Exercise Tubing

Series Summary

Many people want to lose weight, and despite claims for quick fat burning pills and powders, the best way to lose weight is still through proper diet and exercise. Exercise does more than just maintain physical fitness though. Working out can also help build healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility. It can also reduce your general health risks, boost the immune system, and help with depression and insomnia. Whether your reason for exercising is to lose weight, or improve muscle mass, working out is always a good idea to help promote the health of your body and mind.

Adding resistance to your workout routine makes your body work a little harder and build more strength and muscle. In this free video series, our expert fitness instructor will teach you how to add resistance with rubber exercise tubing. These unique fitness tools are similar to resistance bands and act very much in the same manner. Our expert will show you how to do a variety of exercises with your rubber exercise tubing, including how to do lateral pull exercises, front raises, squats, hip extension exercises. You will also learn how to do chest press tubing exercises and lunges with your elastic tubing. If you are looking for a way to pump up your workout routine without spending a lot of money on free weights, let our expert show you how to use this simple piece of equipment to really build some muscle.

Video Transcript

"For our totally tubing segments, we're going to be using what we call elastic tubing. Elastic tubing comes in different colors for different strength. Usually your yellow is your easiest, then your green, then you'll have red, blue, and black. Some manufactures do different colors, but basically the elastic tubing, the more resistance it's going to have. Always before you begin your tubing excurses, take your hand and run it down the tube to make sure there's no tears or cuts in the tubing. If this tubing happens to break, and there is a chance that could happen. You want to make sure that you have a good tube to begin with first, that there's not cuts in it. It could snap into one of your body parts and hurt you. Another thing is to always make sure that you have a good grip on the handles. These are plastic handles, but never what I call a death grip where you're really, really tightening your wrist and getting white knuckles. If we're going to do an exercise where I want you to tighten up on the resistance a little bit, avoid wrapping the tubing around your hand. Just simply hold up closer on the tube. Always safety first. These are great little resistance training tools to throw in your suitcase. They don't take up much room, so you can do your resistance training while you're on the road. Onto totally tubing exercises."