Just ordered my bands!!

[brianmincher]

JimmieDean,

I will be competing Tomorrow, but not in St. Pete. I live in tulsa OK, and I will be competing in McAlester, Oklahoma. i would love to make it to St. Pete, but not this year. I am hoping to qualify for the WABDL worlds tomorrow, but I am not going to compete there whether I qualify or not. But it would be cool to qualify anyway.

I use the green bands plus chains for 3 weeks, then drop to a tube band, which I think is roughly equivalent to the minibands for 3 weeks plus chains, then go 3 weeks with chains only. I have been keeping my 3 rep speed at about 2.65 seconds from beginning of the first rep to lockout of the third rep. I will tell you Sunday if it worked on Saturday.

Good luck to all competitors this weekend, in St. Pete, in McAlester, or wherever you are competing.

JD, smack Cubanito in the back of the head for me.

B.

 

[I'D RATHER BE DEADLIFTING]

Ok. I did my squats today with the light bands. They felt totally fine. I did 135+the light bands for 10 sets of 2. This was failry easy. Did a set with 155+bands and 185+bands and those went well too. Now, I want to make sure I have the bands done right. All I did was loop one end around a dumbell on the floor and the other end around the bar. No wrapping or twisting of the band. Just put the open end around. Is this right? It had no tension on the bottom of the lift and was tensed at the top.

Just want to make sure I got the right set up before I get really into what weights I'm using.

 

[GRIMMER]

IN order for it to work best the band has to have tention on it the entire time no slack. To do this take two dumbells and place them side by side handles paralell. Then take the band under the two dumbells and slip one end into the other so that it chokes down. this greatly increases the tention and keeps it tight through the entire range. Put the other end around the bar and you ready to roll . Do this for each side of the bar. THis will not be as easy as the other way thats why i said do it with the minis first to check it out.

 

[I'D RATHER BE DEADLIFTING]

Ahh, that makes more sense. These things should come with a manula, lol. Thanks man, I'll do that next week.

I guess I should start my wave next week, since it will be my first time using the bands properly right?

Also, everyone follows the three weeks on, three weeks off for bands on bench right? Could you add bands to an exercise on ME day on one of the three off weeks? Thanks

 

[Adam MacKinnon]

Most people still go 3 on 3 off with the bands.
I still use mine on ME days even if im using them on speed days too