Booty Burn Circuit

Have you ever used fitness bands? Fitness bands, or resistance bands, are a great addition to your strength training repertoire. They come in a variety of sizes, lengths and resistance strengths. My husband bought me a set for Christmas and I’m loving them. They’re portable, they don’t take up a lot of room and they take your at home (or traveling), workout up to the next level.

There are a few reasons that I particularly like resistance bands.

1. They don’t put pressure on your joints the way heavy barbells do. Resistance bands do not depend on a heavy load and gravity like moves such as barbell back squats do. If you have knee or hip issues, you know what I’m talking about. You’ll find that with resistance bands, you’ll feel the burn long before you feel pain in your joints.
2. Resistance bands force you to work through the entire range of motion. In fact, as your range of motion increases, resistance increases. That means that resistance bands require a high degree of stabilization at the end of your range of motion, which is exactly where you need to be working on stabilization.
3. Whether your focus is general health, overall fitness, muscle growth or anything else in the exercise world, resistance bands can help you reach your goal. Resistance bands are great for muscle growth, developing agility, speed, balance, flexibility, mobility and coordination. You can use them in a fat loss program, a strength program, a cardio program or working on increasing power. Resistance bands allow you to be creative and because of that, they’re use is versatile.

I use resistance bands in this workout to get more out of each movement. Use a variety of bands with different strengths to regress and progress each exercise.

Make sure to begin your workout with a solid cardio warm-up followed by dynamic stretching to make sure your body is ready to work!