<div class="block">Ngo Okafor returned to &#39;beWell&#39; to get us into shape but this time we&#39;re using resistance bands. Resistance bands can workout just about every part of the body and offer a range of varying difficulty. </div>

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Be Well: The Amazing Band Workout

OK, go today. We are doing the amazing band workout. But what makes these bands so amazing? Do they do the workout for me? They don't do the workout for you. But you can use this band on every part of your body. You can do lower body, we can do leg workout with it. You can do upper body workout with it. We're gonna show you today. Total body exercises that you can do with this band. Tiny little band. You can travel with it everywhere. So what's the difference between these type of bands and this one? Well, this band is a longer band so you can do different exercises, but it's longer, right? It's more cumbersome and you can't really do lower body work with this band. So we'll start out with lower body. So we'll put the band on. We're gonna do squats with this band on the whole leg. Exactly. Once we have the band above our knees, what's next? So, next, we're gonna do squats and the beauty of having a band like this is when you squat down, you drive your knees apart and you work your glute, you work your glute muscles. Not just your legs, you work your glutes as well. So you go down, you keep your chest up, go down, you drive the knees out, ok? You go down to squeeze, go as low as you can protect your knees, ok? Keep the chest up. Go as low as you can squeeze up. Yeah. So let's come back down. So you're gonna take this off. Good. And now we'll have it since we're doing lower body, we'll have it wrapped around just 1 ft and we're gonna do a single leg deadly. You'll have 1 ft behind the other. You wanna go on the ball with that back foot and you go down, feel the stretch and squeeze. I feel it right in here. Yeah, exactly. We're gonna get down on the ground and we're gonna do a seated row. Yeah, we're just using the band and the beauty one more time of using a band is you get tension going back and then tension coming. So you fight it coming forward. Do you go forward and pull back? I'm really feeling it in my back. Really focus. You feel it going forward and you know, you feel it going back now, we'll put the band at your wrist. And what this does is when you not open up your hands, it immediately engages the muscles in your back. I can barely, I can barely stretch it and all. So that, that's the beautiful thing. There's different weights. So there's different colors. This is too heavy. There are lighter bands too. I'm gonna get this lighter band easier for myself. All right. And so you stretch your arms as far as you can. We have to fight for that. Exactly. And that's, and that's where the work is. The work is keeping your hands apart. Ok. And then we get in the push up position and then we go straight down and, uh, and you feel the tension in your chest too because you're fighting to keep your, keep your arms up. So you will feel your back and your chest go as low as you can and then build up so you can go all the way down.