ENDORPHINE JUNKIE- EXERCCISE THREAD !!

I read about this exercise and tried it last night.  It was very effective !!

I'm all about home workouts using inexpensive equipment. When you have resistance bands, dumbbells and a ball, for example, you've got endless exercise options and combinations for a pretty small investment.
By using a resistance band and dumbbells at the same time, you'll add challenge and variety to your exercises and keep seeing results without buying heavier set of weights. Even if your current weights are still challenging, adding a band can help you build even more lean muscle. One study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that exercisers who used dumbbells and resistance bands simultaneously gained twice the upper and lower body strength as participants who used free weights alone
Why try this technique? Besides adding challenging to less-than-challenging dumbbell exercises, you can speed through your workouts faster when you use heavier resistance. Instead of doing, for example, 20 reps using a band or dumbbell alone, you can combine the two and reach fatigue in far fewer reps, which means less time spent working out. Or if you're looking to prevent or overcome a plateau, a new technique like this could be just the thing you need to "shock" your body back into action.
Be creative when it comes to exercises. You could add dumbbells to nearly every exercise that uses a resistence band, or the other way around.

Why not shake things up a bit and give it a try? Doubling the results of your workouts is incentive enough to use bands with dumbbells more regularly.

So what you moving today?

That sounds fantastic! I think I'm going to pull out my dumbells and bands and try it tonight!!!

Just got home from doing a three mile run/walk. 

Lola

Good for you- a wog!  Keep up the great work.

Nothing for me today.....it's a day of much needed rest!!!!!!  Yay!!!!!

Yeah!  Rest and Water- have a wonderful day.

Off to the gym after work. One hour Elliptical and treadmill for me...

Aloha- We had a personal trainer as our guest speaker at the November monthly support group. He has been working with one of our members, and brought resistance bands and weights and let her demo. She was condfidant enough to be his model, having dropped from 548 lbs in January to less than 400 now. I was intrigued enough to dig the bands out of my husbands closet and I'm bringing them on vacation next week - our condo does not have a fitness center and there are no nearby health clubs where I'd have reciprocal privileges.

I have added weight training to my regimen in the past 4 weeks- prior to that I did nothing bu****er workouts ( and as you know, I am at higher risk for osetoporosis without some weight bearing exercise on land). I've belonged to this club for over 2 years, never went except a few times to sit by their pool. I used my 2 free personal trainer sessions to learn some machines- and to my surprise he taught me mostly exercises to do at home using my own body weight ( like hip bridges, knee squats, etc). He also introduced me to interval training, so I have shortened my 90 minutes of swimming/aquasize to 45 minutes of kick my butt interval swimming.

So today- did 45 mins interval swimming then went to the club and did my circuit, 4 sets of 8-15 reps at 10 stations. I am pleasantly wiped out! XOXOLori