Bicep Curls with Exercise Bands

Series Summary

Resistance training is the foundation of building and toning muscles. Whether you want to shed pounds, build bulk, or strengthen your heart, resistance training is right for you. Of course, your doctor would know best. Resistance training includes weight-lifting, body weight exercises like push ups or crunches, and more recently doing exercises with rubber or elastic bands that stretch to offer resistance. Trying out resistance exercise bands might be just what your workout needs to start targeting and toning your muscles while you lose weight or train.

In this free video series, expert Jeannette Stojcevski shows you how to use resistance bands for exercises at the beach. You will learn one arm and two arm bicep curls, tricep extensions and exercises, back extensions, and a few good exercises to strengthen your deltoids and shoulders. Jeannette gives you great tips on form and muscle building. You will learn chest presses and push ups, dips, and more. It is all here.

Video Transcript

"The first upper body exercise that I am going to demonstrate to you is the bicep curl. For the bicep curl I am going to have you holding onto the handles and you're going to step on the tube, and the tube should lay underneath your arches. Secure. Make sure it is underneath your arches. You don't not want the tube to slip out from underneath your feet. Your going to keep your feet about hip width apart. Knees are slightly bent. Let's set up your good posture. Your knees are slightly bent from the side. Abs are in tight. You want to keep your elbows in right next to your ribs, and the whole time when your performing your bicep curl your elbow should not move to effectively work the bicep muscle. Palms are up to keep your wrist nice and strong. By that I mean, you do not want to flex your wrist, you want to keep them in a neutral position. From here what your are going to do is lift your forearms up. You're going to hold and slowly bring them back down. When you lower back down, you do not want to completely straighten your arms. You do not want to lock your elbow. Keep your elbows slightly bent. Perform the curl, lower down, curl, and lower down. Please do not move those elbows up. We are not working the shoulders here. We want to isolate the bicep only. Okay, so from the front, up and down. Perform fifteen to twenty repetitions, however, do not comprise your form. You if have to lean back or bring up your elbows, stop the set. The set is over. Please perform the exercises correctly and effectively. That's the bicep curl."