Exercising with a resistance band can be a great way to build your strength and flexibility.
Exercising with a resistance band can be a great way to build your strength and flexibility.
So, we teamed up with fitness professional, Leon Wormley, and his mum Janet, who lives with arthritis, to create a resistance band workout series. This contains three workout routines, one for your lower body and two for your upper body.
Specially designed for people with arthritis, each follow-along video is packed with simple exercises to help you get moving. There are one lower body and two upper body routines
By taking just a few minutes to do these exercises, it will help to strengthen and stabilise your joints. Plus, it will hopefully make day-to-day activities easier, like going up and down the stairs or carrying your shopping.
It’s recommended that we should do muscle-strengthening exercises twice a week – and using resistance bands is a great way to add these to your routine.
“Resistance bands are elastic bands that you can use to keep active,” says Leon. Essentially, the force it takes to stretch the band works your muscles in the same way as using weights.
When used correctly, resistance bands can help improve your:
Resistance bands come in different shapes, sizes, and resistance strengths, so it’s about finding which suits you best.
“You can have a band which has two ends, you can have circular bands, and then there’s resistance bands which have adaptations like handles, which might help support your hands,” explains Leon.
“Some people may struggle gripping the band, so it’s an individual preference about finding what’s comfortable for you.”
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