Full-Body Workout with Stretch Tubing

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	• The Great Stretch Tubing Handbook Andre Noel Potvin Productive Fitness Pub, 2007 - 64 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fine Exercise Book

If you don't want to travel with 200 lbs of weights, then stretch tubing is the way to go. Leave your weights at home, and take a small bag of stretch tubing when you're on the road or on vacation. The tubing offers resistance, which is what strength training is all about. This book tells you just how to use the tubing to get the most out of it. There are good color pictures and detailed instructions. The only thing better would be to have someone do the exercises for you.

An Excellent Booklet

Pros
- clear instructions
- exercises are pictured as well as explained
- large number of exercises
- pretty much all areas of the body are covered
- includes a section on how to make a door attachment and also warm-up / stretching
- a FULL SECTION for rotator cuffs.

Cons:
- Maybe price - and even that is a minor complaint.

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From a Satisfied Customer...

There's a lot to like about this book. First of all,I like the unique evercises for each muscle group of the body. The illustrations are clear and the exercise desciption concise.There's no long drawn out clutter.The stretch section alone is worth the price of the book...and exercising with stretch tubing makes sooo much sense ! We sorely need a more common sense approach to exercising and this book fills that need.

I liked this book very much.

I liked this book very much.

What was great for me about this book:
1. Small format and only 64 pages.
This book is small enough to take anywhere, it includes everything you need and nothing you don't.
It doesn't waste pages on trying to motivate or make you feel good, it just tells you how to do it, exactly what I needed.
2. Every exercise has a description of, not only how to do the exercise, but the reminders on how to protect yourself, like stabilize your torso and position of your feet. Some books only list these once at the beginning and are too easily forgotten, particularly in the home situation.
3. Every exercise was on its own page.
This meant I could scan each page, print it and display it on a wall while I was doing the exercise, great when you change the routine every 4-6 weeks for a reminder.
4. The muscles targeted are listed with each exercise.
This meant I could easily make up my own workout routine and know which major and minor muscle groups were included or excluded.
5. Sample workout routine.
This gives you the basics on how many exercises to include in each major area of the body and assists in planning my own variations.
6. Muscle anatomy diagrams included.
Knowing where the muscles are that the exercise is targeting helped me in correctly carrying out the exercises as well as the stretches.
7. Stretches included.

What was not so great for me about this book:
1. Time required for stretching.
There was no way I could do each stretch 3 times on a daily basis; this would have meant a minimum of 69 minutes of stretching daily, if following the recommended stretch duration of 60 seconds.
I felt this recommendation was excessive; surely 30 minutes a day of stretching is enough.
Either do each stretch once and hold for 60 seconds or do each stretch 3 times and hold for 20 seconds, would have been more in keeping with the time constraints of the average person.
A suggestion of a variation for time poor average citizens would have been useful.

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Full-Body Workout with Stretch Tubing

If you intend on completing all the exercises in this book I'd highly recommend that you order a light, medium and heavy resistance band. Most of the exercises can be completed with a medium resistance band, however there are some that are impossible to do properly without light or heavy resistance. The "Bell" resistance bands have a door attachment but there are also instructions for creating your own door attachment using nylon cord/rope.

The exercises are all fairly simple to do. The only problem I encountered was the fact that you had to keep changing the resistance band height in the door. This is a minor irritation that could have been prevented by putting all the exercises in a different order. In this book they are organized in the following order: Chest, Shoulders, Rotator Cuff, Back, Biceps, Triceps, Forearms, Core and Legs. So if you want a full-body workout you have to just adjust the band for each exercise. Some that might be familiar to you include:

Incline Chest Press
Chest Flye
Overhead Shoulder Press
Seated Low Row
Crunch
Squat

If you don't have time to go to the gym then these exercises are fun to do at home. The place I felt the work was mostly in my upper body and back. If you have any back problems you might want to try the light resistance band first. Once you have three bands you can just write the color of the band that works on each exercise.

As with the Medicine Ball Workout, the easiest way to use this book (so it stays open) is to cut it in half. Then, simply punch holes in the corner of each page and put it on a metal ring. This will allow all the pages to lay flat when you are exercising. This book also includes a brief section on stretching, muscle diagrams and information on aerobic training. You can start with as little as 8 reps per exercise and work your way up to two sets of fifteen reps.

~The Rebecca Review

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This comprehensive little book covers a series of stretch tubing exercises to work out the whole body, including a section for working the rotator cuff muscles. Each exercise has a start and finish photo, with easy to follow step-by-step instructions. A muscle diagram, showing the muscles being used to perform the exercise, accompanies each description. The Stretch Tubing Handbook also shows you how to make and use your own door attachment, as well as pointers on stretching, staying motivated, and safety.

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