INTRODUCTION

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Welcome everyone, we are five students of science sport at University of Alicante and we have created this blog to share information related to resistance band training applied to improve performance, health, hypertrophy and more.

Resistance bands are very cheap and portable material that can be used to train in the gym or home.

In this blog, we will publish articles on current scientific research, videos where we show the technique of the exercise and interviews with sport professionals.

We are very excited about this project if you have any questions leave your comments and we will answer as soon as possible.

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