Resistance Bands Science

Warming up before a ride incresases your heart rate and therefore your blood flow thanks to which more oxygen reaches your muscles. Additionally, your range of motion (flexibility) should be increased by dynamic stretching. After a ride, cooling down is vital to get the heart rate to return to its resting rate. A resistence band can be a great add-on to your warm up, cool down and strength taining. Here are some basic resistance band assited warm up and cool down stretches that you can do pre and post ride. In this post we will see 4 exercises to do before you start your workout routine fot the lower body in the gym: 1- Quadrupedial Abductions: 2- Kick back: 3- Squat: 4- Lying down abductions: To learn more see the following video:   Band Exercise Warm Up for Legs & Hips

In this 30 Minute Butt and Thighs Burnout With Miniband Workout, I take you through multiple butt and thighs exercises using nothing but your bodyweight and and a miniband (I have the one that I use linked below)! I burned 300 calories*! What can you burn? *Please take note that calories burned vary for every individual depending on multiple factors (e.g. age, body weight, heart rate, height, effort intensity, etc). Any slight variation in any of these factors can dramatically alter the amount of calories you burn. I calculate all of my calories using an Apple Watch 3 with the High Intensity Interval Training Workout application. In this workout you are training with me, Sydney Cummings, owner of Royal Change and NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Fitness Nutrition Specialist. I am a fitness trainer is Charlotte, North Carolina and was a Division 1 athlete at West Virginia University where I was a national qualifying high jumper. I use my knowledge from my NASM certificat...