How To Do Forward Resistance Exercises Video

Resistance exercises focus on endurance and muscle tone. Learn exercises and stretches for your workout routine in this fitness video.

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Wrap resistance band around pole or support
Maintain resistance on the band
Lunge forward & push out with hands
Combine lunge & chest press motions

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Tom Clifford has a degree in physical education, fitness and health from Eastern Michigan University, where he ran track and cross-country. Tom has worked as a personal trainer for two years. He also has a separate business where he coaches runners and triathletes for upcoming events. He currently works at Gold's Gym in Wilmington, North Carolina.

TOM CLIFFORD: Now I'm going to demonstrate a Forward Resistance Exercise. What you need for this exercise is a resistance band. If you're more advanced, you can double up the resistance band and you use two of them. What I'm going to do is I'm going to wrap it around in any type of pole or machine, put it around my body and put my hands locked into the handles of the resistance band. I'm going to lean forward a little bit, so that there is resistance with the band even from the start. Now, I'm going to lunge forward and push out with my hands and then lunge back. All my hands are going all the way back. So I'm getting a lunge and a chest press, all combined into one exercise. Lunging forward, pressing forward, lunging back, pressing back. Lunging, forward, knee over heel, back leg bent, arms straight in front of me, not up, not down, straight and then lunging back. Just some key points to remember when doing a Forward Resistance Exercise is to have enough resistance on the exercise band to get something out of it. Make sure you take it slow and do the proper motions of the lunge, keeping your knee over you heel, concentrate on bending your back leg. Shoulders above hips and then press out with your hands like a chest press.

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