Exercise with elastic band: strong muscles, elegant forms

Physical culture occupies a significant place in the lives of modern residents of megacities and smaller cities. To save the physical form, given by the nature, is not easy, when around an abundance of delicacies, and the work does not require much physical effort. If centuries ago people had to get food in the sweat of their own, now they have to look for ways to spend energy received with food.

How to move to spend calories?

Fat residents of highly developed civilizations run in the morning, go after work in a fitness club, set up simulators in their own homes. We have to sweat to spend extra calories and thereby preserve youth and health. It is necessary to move so that the muscles work and get tired, and for this they must overcome resistance. Invented all kinds of devices for the body's load, allowing to simulate natural efforts and achieve sufficient muscle contraction.

How to make the muscles act?

In the list of strength classes, the exercise with elastic band takes its deserved niche. It is the ribbon, which you have to pull with force, makes the muscles work in full force, imitating rowing, swimming, lifting weights, dragging the booty from place to place - everything that a man has been doing for thousands of years. The modern philistine tries to save himself from physical inactivity, but so that he does not experience discomfort. Among the possible pleasant actions, exercises with an elastic band represent for him an ideal strength training.

Elastic band in the system of exercises for women

For a modern woman, there is no more optimal projectile, which allows to form ideal muscles for a perfect figure than an elastic band for sports. Exercises with it allow you to achieve great results in a short time. This kind of sports equipment is especially appreciated because it is convenient and compact. You can put a piece of latex in any baggage and go on a trip or to the country, having an ideal simulator with you. The very exercise with an elastic band is easy, and it can be performed in any room, without special equipment. It is necessary to remove the tape from the bag, to dissolve it at full length, wind the ends in your hands - and you can start training.

The focus of the hips and buttocks: we remove fat and train the muscles

Having selected the best exercises with elastic band (photo of some of them are given in this article), it is possible to make a complex for the development of the muscles of the whole body or for improving problem areas, for example, the hips, abdomen, hands. The tape is suitable for any area of the body, it can correct any flaws in the figure.

For example, regular exercises with an elastic band form graceful smooth thigh lines and tightened buttocks, something that particularly cares both young girls and mature women.

• Take a step with your right foot forward and press it with the tape in the middle, the ends of the tape are picked up, bent at the elbows in front of you.
• The left leg lift on the toe and, bent knee, begin to squat, pulling it to the floor, until the hip of the right leg is parallel to the floor.
• Now on exhalation return to the starting position, overcoming the resistance bandage.

Or an option:

• With both feet, stand in the middle of the ribbon, and pull its ends to your shoulders, bending your arms at the elbows.
• From this position, start crouching, pulling the pelvis back as if you want to sit on a chair. Knees thus remain in a fixed position: do not push them forward.
• On exhalation straighten, squeezing the buttocks and stomach.

Hips for fashion shorts

The next exercise with an elastic band will help to make the thighs slim and tight so that you can proudly show off on yourself fashionable shorts.

First, exercise the outer surface of the thigh:

• Stand straight, stepping on the ribbon, and take its ends into the lowered arms. Lightly stretch the tape. Do a slight squat with the pelvic retraction.
• Straighten and simultaneously raise your right foot to the side, overcoming the resistance of the tape, repeat 8-16 times at first slowly, then at an accelerated pace.
• Repeat with the other leg.

The following exercise tightens the internal muscle-antagonist:

• Take in the right hand both ends of a tape, having clasped it the right foot.
• Bend your arm at the elbow and squeeze it from the side, pulling the brush as much as possible to the side, so as to create tension of the tape.
• Lift the straight leg and pull it to the left, crosswise in front of you, slightly turning out the foot, then pull the bandage by hand to maintain its resistance, feel the tension on the inner surface of the thigh.

Universal miracle

Performing an exercise with an elastic band in a standing position, you actually force the entire body to train. Willy-nilly you need to keep balance, straining at the same time muscles of the abdomen, back, chest and, of course, hands. However, the tape is therefore popular among those engaged in that it can be used in any starting position: sitting, lying, standing. You can pull it from behind, from under yourself, to yourself, from above, from below, lying on your back, on your side, on your stomach. Any classical exercise can be diversified and strengthen its training effect, if you add a tape.