Fitness Body Bands

2011-10-30T14:33:00.001-07:00

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The Truth about Body Bands

2011-04-01T22:00:00.000-07:00

Wanted to share with everyone some truths. You can either chose to except or completely disregard. It all comes down to a choice. I have been in the sports industry for approximately 35 years ranging from athlete to strength and conditioning coach, Trainer and Fitness consultant. I have experienced everything in the form of workout equipment from the very simple to the very complex. The human body and its connecting muscles and tendons are all worked out and stretched in the same exact manner. There is no piece of equipment out there that does anything different in its basic function to strengthen the muscle. A bicep curl is done exactly the same with a dumbbell as it would be on a very expensive commercial gym machine. My point is this. We have all been fooled into thinking that you need Hi-Tech machines and equipment to properly workout and stay healthy and fit. When all you really need is the desire and the action to get up and “DO SOMETHING” physical. The greatest beauty and pleasure that I get from teaching people about the Body Bands system is the ease and freedom they have in how to use the Body Bands to achieve fitness. Now of course we all know that you can workout for hours and days, but if you are eating JUNK. No exercise in the world will burn the FAT and expose the lean muscle. Following a healthy nutritionally sound diet and exercise program will change your body and life forever. Just think of all the benefits with the Body Bands: All the tension and resistance provide by weights but without the additional poundage. What do I mean? Body Bands allows you to perform all the conventional weight exercises but without having to lift a single pound of weights. It is all accomplished by the force of the resistance provided by the heavy Latex band of different degrees of tension. Think of it a complete Portable Gym in a bag. Gives you a full workout with a full range of motion. Allows you to take the entire gym out to the outdoors and workout out at the park. When was the last time you carried your Barbells, Bench and Dumbbells out to the park? No membership fees to any Gyms. Gives you a fast and smooth workout at the office, hotel or anywhere and at anytime. Use them to train for any sports from speed training to martial arts, and everything in between. Able to be use by any age level and any fitness level. From kids to senior citizens, male and female, all can benefit from the Body Bands. To Learn More Visit Us at http://BodyBandsWorkout.com

Lifetime Fitness

2010-07-31T10:29:00.000-07:00

Lifetime Fitness: On Your Way to a Healthier You

Many people end up abandoning perfectly good fitness programs and weight-loss regimens before they even lace up their sneakers.

Why? Because in a world filled with fast food, instant messaging, and a five-second disease-tracking device, anything without a quick payoff goes against the grain of the typical American instant gratification ethic. While it would be nice to actually drop inches in just a few days like what most miracle ads proclaim, managing weight and losing weight through physical fitness is a slow and steady process that takes time and commitment.

Setting weight management goals for yourself can be a good motivator. Gradual weight loss, for those people who wish to shed off some extra pounds, is usually the safest.
That is why health and fitness experts had come up with the idea of lifetime fitness in order to teach people set realistic goals. These lifetime fitness programs generates dietary regimens that cut your normal calorie consumption for your weight by 500 to 1,000 per day, so will burning the same amount with exercise. In turn, this will definitely encourage healthier weight loss.

Lifetime fitness teaches you how to maintain a physically fit body at the same time enjoy and live a happy, contented life. It gives you the chance to strike a balance between the two (exercise and diet), and make exercise, be it team sports, cycling, or walking, something you will truly enjoy.
That is why lifetime fitness embodies the concept that making a long-term healthy lifestyle change is essential to keeping the pounds off once they are gone.

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Resistance Band Exercises

2010-07-18T07:01:00.000-07:00

Resistance band exercises are widely used by a variety of health and fitness practitioners - both for general strength and conditioning and rehabilitation or injury prevention.

Resistance band exercises are ideal for home exercise programs and can easily be incorporated into a circuit training format helping to condition cardiovascular system as well as strengthening specific muscle groups. Because resistance tubing is so compact and lightweight, it can be used while away from home.

Resistance tubing is extremely adaptable and a large number of resistance band exercises can be developed with very little additional equipment. Smaller muscle groups that are hard to train with more traditional free weight exercises can be targeted with resistance tubing. This makes it particularly appealing to athletic conditioning.

Sports-specific conditioning involves training movements rather than individual muscle groups. The versatility of resistance band exercises allows the athlete to mirror very closely the movement patterns in their sport with varying degrees of resistance. Perhaps even more important is the role they can play in injury prevention and rehabilitation...

Resistance Band Exercises for Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation
Few studies have examined the effects of resistance band exercises on strengthening a specific muscle group. As a result no definite guidelines exist as to the number of sets, repetitions and amount of resistance that should be used. However, many health and fitness practitioners use resistance tubing routinely to prevent and rehabilitate overuse injuries by strengthening often smaller, neglected muscle groups.

For example, athletic movements such as a baseball pitch can place considerable demand on the posterior rotator cuff muscles (external rotators, supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor). These muscles undergo eccentric contraction during the declaration phase of the pitch (1,2), which places considerable strain on the shoulder (3,4). However, the same muscles may not be effectively worked with traditional isotonic exercises (5). If larger muscle groups, such as the deltoids, become stronger and are able to cope with and apply greater force, this may further compromise the rotator cuff muscles.
A program of resistance band exercises to compliment regular strength training may be able to improve the strength of more isolated muscle groups such as the rotator cuff (5,6). Additionally, training these otherwise neglected muscles may even improve performance (6).

Resistance Band Exercises

Of course resistance band exercises can be used for more than simply strengthening more isolated muscle groups. The exercises below work the major muscle groups are only a small sample of the many hundreds of variations that have been devised.

Athletes may want to incorporate them into an off season training program when recovery and regeneration is the most important goal.
Resistance bands are available in a range of colors that relate to their stiffness or resistance. Color-coding varies between the brands but it typically as follows:

Yellow (thin)
Red (medium)
Green (heavy)
Blue (extra heavy)
Black (special heavy)
Silver (super heavy)

For the resistance band exercises below, complete 2-3 sets of 12-15 repetitions (or up to 25 repetitions for easier colored bands). You should warm up first with 5-10 minutes of light aerobic exercise and cool down with another 5-10 minutes of gentle exercise, plus some stretching exercises.

Resistance Band Squats
1. Start by stepping on the resistance band with both feet shoulder width apart.
2. Hold the resistance band at shoulder level with both hands. Start into a full squat while holding the band at shoulder height.
3. Return to the starting position and repeat.

Resistance Band Bent Over Rows
1. Start by placing the band under one foot and stepping backwards with the other foot.
2. Bend over keeping your back flat and stop at a 45 degree angle.
3. Pull the bands up towards your waist keeping your elbows in close together.
4. Squeeze your shoulder blades together when performing rowing motion.

Alternate Lying Chest Presses
1. Lie on your back and place the resistance band under your back and hold the ends with both hands.
2. Start by pressing one arm up towards the ceiling and then return to the starting position. Repeat with the other arm.

Diagonal Woodchops
Starting Position: Loop the band under your left foot and grasp either end. Keep hands together and extend arms down towards left foot.
1. Bring band up and away in a wood chopping motion.
2. During this motion your feet stay stationary and you rotate at your trunk. Repeat this motion for the desired repetitions and then repeat in the opposite direction.

Triceps Extension with Resistance Band
1. Start by holding the tubing in one hand and placing that hand behind your back.
2. Now grab the other end of the band with the arm that is over your head.
3. Extend the top elbow until your arm is fully extended.
4. Return to the starting position and repeat for the prescribed repetitions.

Resistance Band Lunges
1. Stand with feet hip width apart. Take left leg and step back approximately 2 feet standing on the ball of the foot. Place resistance band under front foot and hold the other end with your hands. 2. Start position: Feet should be positioned at a staggered stance with head and back erect and straight in a neutral position.
3. Lower body by bending at right hip and knee until thigh is parallel to floor. Body should follow a straight line down towards the floor.
4. Return to start position.

Lateral Rows with Resistance Band
1. Step onto resistance band with feet hip width apart and knees slightly bent.
2. Start position: Grasp ends with a neutral grip (palms facing each other). Arms should hang down to sides with elbows slightly bent.
3. Raise band to side of body at shoulder height keeping elbows only slightly bent.
4. Return to start position.

Biceps Curls with Resistance Band
1. Stand with feet shoulder width apart, knees slightly bent, and at a staggered stance.
2. Step onto middle of tubing with back foot or both feet.
3. Start position: Grasp ends with underhand grip (palms facing forward) with arms hanging down at sides. Elbows should be close to sides.
4. Flex at the elbows and curl band up to approximately shoulder level. Keep elbows close to sides throughout movement. 5. Return to start position.
6. Remember to keep back and head straight in a neutral position throughout movement. Shoulders should be stabilized by squeezing shoulder blades together slightly - only the elbow joint should be moving.

Forearm workout with Resistance Bands

2010-05-30T08:30:00.000-07:00

FITNESS FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON

2010-05-30T08:19:00.000-07:00

Understanding that not all of us are athletes or great physical specimens how do we get in or stay in shape. I have been in the sports and fitness industry for approximately 35 years. I have participated in Baseball, Football, Boxing, Bodybuilding, Martial Arts. During my lifetime I have used many forms of exercises and machines, equipment and devices to get me in shape. Now as I reach my 54 birthday I realize I can no longer sustain that regiment for the remainder of my life.

I have learned to except the fact that as I my body is not able to tolerate or respond the same way it did when it was younger to physical exercise. In day gone by I would be able to spend two hours in the gym everyday training and working out and reap those benefits. Today due to obligations and physical limitations due to my age I simply can not afford the time or the strain on the body.

I have discovered a great old way that is becoming a brand new way of working out. This would be with resistance body bands. Just think about this no more heavy weights or gym memberships. No more expensive or bulky equipment. All that you need is a small 2lbs bag that is fully equipped with everything you will need for a complete body workout.

No more gravity leveraging weights to work the body. Now you will use tension producing resistance body bands to build and reshape your body and to elevate you to a new fitness level. You are no longer confined to a gym or your home gym. You can take your new gym any where. Remember it’s a 2lbs bag with 4 different color bands all with different levels of resistance or tension. They would range from light to heavy and also by combining the bands give you even more resistance.

You will be able to build muscle and increase strength with continues use of the Body Bands.

Workout and enjoy a fitness lifestyle any where and at any time. Take the bag with you on vacation, beach, hotel. Take the bag to work, office… Take the bag to the park and workout out doors.

I encourage each and everyone to stay active and the best way to stay active is by having fun. Stop doing the same old boring routines and break out of the rut and enjoy a new way to trim and tone your body.

HEALTH & FITNESS made simple

2010-04-05T14:24:00.000-07:00

Wanted to share with everyone some truths. You can either chose to except or completely disregard. It all comes down to a choice.

I have been in the sports industry for approximately 35 years ranging from athlete to strength and conditioning coach, Trainer and Fitness consultant. I have experienced everything in the form of workout equipment from the very simple to the very complex.

The human body and its connecting muscles and tendons are all worked out and stretched in the same exact manner. There is no piece of equipment out there that does anything different in its basic function to strengthen the muscle. A bicep curl is done exactly the same with a dumbbell as it would be on a very expensive commercial gym machine.

My point is this. We have all been fooled into thinking that you need Hi-Tech machines and equipment to properly workout and stay healthy and fit. When all you really need is the desire and the action to get up and “DO SOMETHING” physical.

The greatest beauty and pleasure that I get from teaching people about the Body Bands system is the ease and freedom they have in how to use the Body Bands to achieve fitness. Now of course we all know that you can workout for hours and days, but if you are eating JUNK. No exercise in the world will burn the FAT and expose the lean muscle.

Following a healthy nutritionally sound diet and exercise program will change your body and life forever.

Just think of all the benefits with the Body Bands:

All the tension and resistance provide by weights but without the additional poundage.
What do I mean? Body Bands allows you to perform all the conventional weight exercises but without having to lift a single pound of weights. It is all accomplished by the force of the resistance provided by the heavy Latex band of different degrees of tension. Think of it a complete Portable Gym in a bag.

Gives you a full workout with a full range of motion.

Allows you to take the entire gym out to the outdoors and workout out at the park. When was the last time you carried your Barbells, Bench and Dumbbells out to the park?

No membership fees to any Gyms.

Gives you a fast and smooth workout at the office, hotel or anywhere and at anytime.

Use them to train for any sports from speed training to martial arts, and everything in between.

Able to be use by any age level and any fitness level. From kids to senior citizens, male and female, all can benefit from the Body Bands.

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The Best Fitness Equipment to Buy

2010-04-03T12:53:00.000-07:00

The Best Fitness Equipment to Buy
What to Include in Your Home Gym

According to the American Council on Exercise (ACE) in a report released December 9, 2008, one of the top fitness trends for 2009 will include a decrease in gym memberships and subsequent increase in resourcefulness: using things you have around you, like your own body, to get in shape. In order to reap the benefits of a health club membership without the fees, however, a good compromise is to pick up a few exercise tools you can use on your own. The suggestions below, many of which are alternatives to more traditional equipment like machines and free weights, are all a good value, versatile, and relatively easy to use.

Recommended Strength-Training Equipment for the Home Gym

•What to Get: Resistance bands. Super-cheap and offering nearly infinite exercise choices, resistance bands are portable exercise tubes with handles on either end that come in varying resistances (usually color-coded). Pick up a heavier-resistance band to work your back, chest, and legs, and a lighter-resistance band to work your arms and shoulders. Bonus: unlike dumbbells, you can take them with you when you travel.

•What to Get: Kettlebells. A ball-shaped weight with a handle attached, kettlebells, which were invented in Russia, are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to dumbbells. The reason? Their convenient shape allows them to be used to perform a number of functional exercises, exercises that prepare the body for real-life motions like picking up children or hauling a suitcase. These exercises also tend to burn more calories than isolated strength-training moves.

•What to Get: BOSU Ball. The BOSU (an acronym for Both Sides Up) is an inflated rubber half-sphere with a flat bottom. Like the stability ball, its rounded surface provides an increased range of motion for exercises like crunches and low-back extensions. However, the BOSU is so versatile that you can balance atop either side while performing exercises like squats or bicep curls, you can perform lunges onto it, and you can even hold its handles (ball side down) and do push-ups.

•What to Get: Balance Board. A balance board is a tool you can stand upon to increase recruitment of core muscles while performing basic exercises; its surface wobbles or tilts in two or more directions. One of the most versatile is the Reebok Core Board---its features include adjustable instability for exercisers of varying levels and eight attachment sites for resistance bands, and it’s stable enough to step or lunge onto.

•What to Get: Jump Rope. It’s a fantastic calorie-burner, you can take it anywhere, and it’s a convenient way to squeeze cardio intervals into your circuit-style workout, because it gets your heart rate up in a short amount of time. Even if you’re bad at it, you’ll expend energy just by trying, and it’s not hard to pick up with a little practice.

•What to Get: Exercise DVDs or FitTV/ExerciseTV. One of the best and cheapest options for doing cardio at home continues to be workout videos. You can still pick up fitness DVDs that match your exercise interests---dance, kickboxing, aerobics, or bootcamp---for under $20, but if you have satellite or digital cable, most providers feature free exercise programming in their menus with a variety of rotating workouts to choose from.

Exercise Body Bands

2010-04-03T07:45:00.000-07:00

Exercise bands have gained a lot of popularity for resistance workouts due to their low cost and effective resistance. Working out with these bands can make you burn fat fast, tone your muscles and is very effective for sports and strength training. They are also safer as they are just simple elastic tubes.

Home gym equipment such as the Bowflex relies on polymer rods for resistance and other home gyms use weights along with cables and pulleys to supply resistance. These home gyms are expensive and occupy a lot of space.

But exercise bands are quite different from these home gyms. They rely on elastic tubes to produce resistance and come along with anchors and handles. All you need to do is to the exercise that you find appropriate to get the resistance. You can recreate as much as 140 exercises with resistance bands. If you use a proper anchoring system with these bands then you can workout each and every muscle group of your body with these exercise bands.

These exercise bands are suitable for people with any fitness level. These bands are color coded and each different color gives a different resistance. With yellow giving the lowest resistance of around 5-6 lbs while black is the highest with a resistance of more than 20lbs. Those who want to tone their muscles and lose of body fat will greatly benefit from these bands.

There are loads of resistance bands available on the market but most of them are single and come in with poor anchoring systems. In order to workout your body fully, it is essential that the exercise bands you buy have good anchoring systems and have courses that teach you how to do the exercises. Proper anchoring system can help you workout your body effectively.

Bodylastics is one site that sells resistance bands and uses door anchors and has the best quality of elastic tubes. It also comes in with the quick clip systems with which you can attach multiple bands onto the clip and get the best out of the bands with you.

Bodylastics is currently the best resistance band system in the market.

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10 Reasons Why You Should Use Exercise Bands Over Machine and Free Weights

2009-10-04T09:10:00.000-07:00

Author: Marci Lall

1. Wallet Friendly

With anything you buy, price always comes to mind. When it comes to resistance bands are so cheap that you can set your self up with everything you need for a resistance workout for the price of one month's gym membership or less!

2. Extremely Weightless

Resistance bands are nowhere near the weight of traditional hand or machine weights. The bands are light and make it super easy for you to carry around from place to place.

3. Portability

Whether you're on the road, or working out at a local park, exercise bands can easily fit into your pocket or you could even carry a bunch of them in a small bag. The uses of resistance bands are also a great way to maintain your exercise program when you're on vacation or constantly traveling on the road. Just pack them in your bang and your good to go.

4. Storage

Because the exercise bands don't look like your average hand or machine weights, they don't require any storage space. That's the advantage of being light and compact - you can keep them anywhere without it taking up a lot of space in your home!

5. Regular resistance during exercise movement

When you're working with machine and hand weights they provide gravity-generated resistance, which means at different times the tension on the muscle can be lost.

The bands offer a constant resistance throughout the exercise making it more beneficial than conventional weights.

6. Very Safe

What makes the bands so safe is that it only provides resistance when you want it. You and nothing else progressively control the resistance making it safer for your joints. This of course brings up the fact that even kids and youths can benefit from using the bands. The bands also remove the risks normally linked with resistance training, such as the risk of dropping heavy weights.

7. Time efficiency

By using resistance bands you don't have to work around gym schedules or take time to travel from one place to the other. You can workout in a small room in your house or make use of your private backyard.

8. No noise

When you work out with bands listen closely. Do you hear anything? One of the greatest benefits of using the bands is that they make no noise at all. The days of metal clanging, and teeth grinding noises are long gone when you work with these silent exercise tools.

9. Easy to use

Resistance bands are the simplest form of an "exercise machine". You don't have to be, a super buff bodybuilder, or have a PHD to understand how to use it. Since there aren't any confusing instructions or settings to adjust, you can be exercising within minutes of buying your band!

10. It's affordable

If you compare the price of resistance bands to a health club membership and even the most admired home gyms like the Bowflex, Life Fitness G5 Gym System and Body Craft. For a small fraction of the price you can effectively and efficiently create your own home gym.

About the Author:
Marci Lall is a nationally recognized weight loss and body sculpting specialist, certified personal trainer (CPT) and the author of the internationally popular e-book - The Rebound Workout. Go to TheYoYoDietReport.com to get your FREE starters kit for permanent weight loss.

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Seniors and Body Bands

2009-08-31T17:45:00.000-07:00

Bones - This is such an amazing benefit for older adults. Resistance training and weight bearing exercises actually help to build stronger bones by increasing the bone density. What does that mean in layman's terms? It means that the bones become thicker to adapt to moving against an opposing force. When they become thicker they become stronger and are more resistant to breaking. Non-weight bearing exercise such as swimming or riding a bicycle provides excellent cardiovascular benefits, but are less effective at preventing bone loss.

To maximize the benefits of exercise for the prevention of osteoporosis it should be a combination of resistance training and aerobic work. The resistance training can come in the form of weight training, working with machines or exercise bands. The aerobic can be as simple as walking briskly.

Heart and Circulatory System - Vigorous exercise strengthens the heart as a pump, making it a larger, more efficient muscle. If the heart is stronger it will have an easier time pumping blood through your body. Why is this important? The circulatory system which moves blood through your body replenishes the energy source to your cells and carries away the waste. So, more energy, less waste, a more efficient machine which should equate into feeling better! I always feel better and have more energy when I am able to exercise on a regular basis. The American Heart Association recommends at least 20 minutes of aerobic exercise three times a week.

Muscles - Strength training helps offset the loss in muscle mass and strength typically associated with normal aging. If you do not use your muscles they will atrophy (actually get smaller) and therefore become weaker. Keeping your muscles strong will help you to maintain structural stability which can help you to prevent falling. Falling is a common cause of injuries in the older adult population.

Body fat - Have you've gained weight over the years? Well, now you can reverse the trend. First let me explain how it works. Your body will naturally burn calories every day. If you eat the same amount of calories that your body is naturally burning you will not gain weight. If you eat more calories than you body is burning you will gain weight and vice versa. However, reducing your calories (if not not eating enough already) can actually have a negative effect. By exercising you can increase the number of calories that you're burning everyday and start to lose fat. Furthermore as you start to add muscle your body will naturally burn more calories - even when you are resting!

Psychological Benefits

So, you thought that the effects of exercise are only physical. Well, let me tell you some great news, exercise has been shown to have some very powerful psychological benefits as well.

A Duke university study in 1999 by Dr. Blumenthal showed that exercise was just as effective at treating depression as medication.

The researchers studied 156 elderly patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD) and assigned them to three groups: medication, exercise, or a combination of medication and exercise. Surprising to the researchers, all three groups showed statistically significant and similar improvement in measurements of depression after only 16 weeks.

2009-07-17T07:24:00.000-07:00

Home Gym systems like Bowflex and Total Gym

even health clubs/gyms like Ballys and Gold's have a $50 alternative, Bodylastics!

Dear Friend...Welcome!

Our unique super system is a complete home gym that fits in a 3 pound bag yet stands toe to toe with home gyms like Bowflex and even the most popular health clubs.

Are you skeptical that an exercise product starting at only $50 could work all of your muscles as well as a Bowflex, Total Gym or big weight machines? Well you should be. But I am here to tell you that you will love this product, and will end up loving our company, because you are going to get in shape and save a ton of cash at the same time.

You will absolutely be able to work your muscles to the max. All of the best exercises for the chest, arms, legs, back, shoulders and abs can be performed with this compact workout system.

If you are like me you have found out the hard way that before you make any buying decisions you should sit back for a second and do some research. Most importantly you should find some proof that a product or service works. How do you get proof? Easily, by seeing and hearing about results from people just like yourself.

Since the launch of the Bodylastics Super System 10 years ago, we have helped tens of thousands of people create the type of body that THEY visualized having. We consistently receive emails and phone calls from people who cannot believe how well this system worked for them.

Besides highlighting some amazing information about Bodylastics, I am listing just a handful of real results and opinions shared by real people. Real people who became owners of Bodylastics and made a positive change in their bodies and their lives.

2009-07-17T07:14:00.000-07:00

The Best Home Gym You Will Ever Own!

Bodylastics is a complete home gym system.

We designed this system in 1996 to outperform the most popular and expensive large bulky home gyms.

Smoothest Resistance

When we were first developing the Bodylastics Home Gym System, we searched for the smoothest source of resistance on the planet. Well, we found it - Elastic tubing. Not only is elastic tubing super smooth when you stretch it, but it is incredibly light and flexible. That means it is easy to store - no extra room needed!

Once we decided that elastic tubing would be our resistance "engine", we set out to design a system that could create several levels of tension. This would enable users of all strength levels to get the best results possible. So, we created the Bodylastics Quick Clip System. Our elastics have solid aluminum clips secured to the ends so that they can be easily attached to handles and ankle straps. This simple yet effective design gives users the ability to generate from 15 to 94 levels of tension

(depending on which set you order)…

Over 140 of the top gym exercises

Well, the statement above is not really true. This product is so versatile that the actual number of exercises is only limited by your imagination and creativity. However, to get you started, we start you off with the most effective exercises used for decades, to build the worlds best bodies.

You arrived at this site because you are looking for a home gym/exercise product, to exercise your body, which will in turn make you look and feel better, right? Well, first and foremost, what should an exercise product be able to provide? Exercises!!!

All Bodylastics Home gym systems can create over 140 of the greatest exercises from the best equipped health clubs and gyms. We're not talking about make shift exercises that kind of do the same thing as the $20,000 machines, we are talking about the same exact exercises.