Myosource Kinetic Bands™

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Kinetic Bands are now $29.95 per set plus shipping.

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Coach McQueen

This artilce has some great information about exercise and health improvement. 

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I am looking to help teenage boys and girls increase overall speed and agility.  I have used your kinetic bands for the last couple of weeks.  They work great.  I have the kids workout four days a week.  Is there a specific program I can follow or a routine that works better than others to help the kids see dramtic results.  Thanks for your time.

I am asked this question quite often. 

 Will the Kinetic Bands work for my 7-12 year old.  

Regardless of their young age , body type, weight etc. resistance bands training is great for  Core development., strength ( without lifting weights ) balance and coordination.

.We offer a yellow resistance band for those under 110 lbs. that is light enough  while offering a nice confortable level of resistance to work the Core muscles.

The leg strap comes at full length for most anyone through adult size.  The strap can but cut in length for a comfortable fit depending on the body size or the strap can be lapped underneath itself.   .

With just a few minutes 3-4 times per work of training, or simply wearing the bands and having fun around the house or yard, these young athletes can benefit by training their Core from  right above the knee's to the lower abs.

The benefits are many:

Speed development

Core strength

Flexibility

Balance

Endurance

Confidence

We believe a good active stretch routine is beneficial for athletes of all ages.

We then move in to sport or activity specific training

This is a good article about the benefits of using resistance bands when traveling.

Using Resistance Bands To Get A Good Workout While Travelling

By: Vikram Kumar

If you are fond of exercise or simply like to keep fit by doing a regular workout, then travelling is probably extremely inconvenient for you, as it can be very difficult to get in any exercise while you are on the move. Unless the hotel that you are staying at has a gym that you can use, you will most probably not have any access to a gym or gym equipment to get a decent workout on. Someone who was really serious about getting to a gym to work out would probably have to travel a long distance in order to gain access to a gym or gym equipment.

With resistance bands, however, you can have your own version of a portable gym that you can take with you no matter where you go. Unlike other forms of supposedly portable exercise equipment, the fitness band really is the epitome of portability, taking up less space in your baggage than a pair of jeans would. With a fitness band in your bag, you need not worry whether or not your hotel has a gym with decent equipment available, because you will always have the means to get a good workout with you no matter where you are.

Many top athletes have long used resistance bands as part of their training regimen, because they realize just how effective fitness band training can be. Unlike regular weights, exercises done with resistance bands make use of the constant pull that the band exerts on your muscles, so unlike weight training, it is much harder for you to strain or pull muscles as you cannot simply drop the resistance band like you can a regular weight. This greatly lessens the impact that exercising has on your joints, and is much better for you health in the long run.

Where To Get Resistance Bands

If you are looking for your own fitness band so that you can start doing some resistance training, then you should start your search online. While resistance bands are definitely available in almost any sporting goods store, the sheer variety of the resistance bands available online will allow you to better choose the fitness band that is just right for you and your level of training.

The main thing to take note of is that resistance bands come in different levels of difficulty. These levels indicate how much strength it takes to stretch the bands. Depending on what your regular workout regimen is like, you should select the resistance band with the level of difficulty that is appropriate to your training level. If you are an absolute beginner, then you should stick to the easier difficulty levels. This will help keep you from getting injured when you do your resistance training exercises, as it can be easy to overstrain your muscles if you are using a band that is too difficult for you.

So make sure you get the resistance band that is right for you and your level of training. This way, you will be able to enjoy the benefits of using a fitness band in your training without running the risk of injury.

The answer to this is a resounding No!!!   I ran accrros this article below written by Mark Rosenburg M.D. Institue for Healthy Aging.

If you're like a lot of my patients over 40, you may have a few pounds to lose and would like to regain that youthful, toned, muscular look you used to have. It's true, as we get older, if we don't use it; we lose it, muscle strength, that is.

Did you know that people lose 5 lbs of muscle mass every 10 years after the age of 30? That's right! With that muscle loss comes decreased metabolic rate, which means we burn fat slower and may gain weight faster. However, the good news is that there is a way to reverse this process. It's called resistance training.

There are so many aspects of optimal health that good muscle strength influences. In fact, toned muscles not only make us look more streamlined but they can actually help us age slower, lose weight, build bone density, and stay agile and less prone to injuries.

Many people trying to lose weight tell me that they do aerobic exercise like walking, running, or cycling, several times a week along with watching what they eat, yet their weight loss is still very slow. When I ask them if they do any resistance, or muscle strength training along with those efforts, they're surprised to hear that they'll see results faster if they substitute some aerobic exercise for some resistance training. Let me explain why.

What Is Resistance Training?

Simply put, resistance training is any kind of movement of your muscles against an external resistance like free weights, weight machines, exercise bands, or even lifting rocks, that causes your muscles to contract. Doing these kind of muscle movements causes microscopic tears in the muscle in a process called catabolism, or break down, of the muscle fibers.

The healing and repair that our body does in response is known as anabolism. It causes the muscles to not only repair themselves but also grow stronger, denser, and more resilient. The result of that two-stage process creates a more toned you and increases your metabolic rate which helps you burn fat faster. If you burn fat faster, guess what? You lose those stubborn pounds of fat faster.

Here are some other side benefits of resistance training that I bet you'll be surprised to know:

•Can help lower blood pressure - current research shows that resistance training lowers both systolic (upper) and diastolic (lower) blood pressure by several points. It also decreases stress hormones in the blood which helps lower blood pressure.

•Prevents osteoporosis by building bone - friction of the muscle against bone during resistance training stimulates the bone to grow and become thicker.

•Reverse or slow down the aging process - along with a higher protein intake, resistance training helps release Human Growth Hormone (HGH) which slows aging.

•Improve glucose metabolism - weight training improves insulin usage by utilizing glucose for muscle work. Helps prevent type 2 diabetes.

Aerobic and Resistance Training - Both Work Together

Don't get me wrong, aerobic exercise is very beneficial to your overall health. It also improves your mood, decreases your blood pressure, increases your metabolic rate, increases lung and heart capacity, and helps you sleep!

However, I have some patients who exhaust and dehydrate themselves doing aerobic exercise every day for 1 hour, trying to lose fat and tone muscles. This is actually counterproductive. You can shorten your aerobic exercise time to 20 minutes, 3 times a week, doing interval aerobic exercise instead which not only energizes you but strengthens your heart and boosts your metabolic rate far better and faster.

Interval aerobic exercise, is doing a 10 minute slower warm up with your chosen exercise (walking, jogging, traditional bicycling or "spinning" on a bike in a club, elliptical machine, swimming, brisk dancing) and then alternating between short, 2 minute bursts of more intense, faster, higher resistance level exercise and slow, resting exercise for the remaining 10 minutes. As you get used to doing intervals like this, you can gradually increase your length of high intensity bursts to 5 minutes.

Resistance training, on the other hand, specifically targets the strength of each muscle group and should be done 3 times a week. Whether you use free weights or standing weight machines in your gym is your choice. However, you may want to start out on weight machines and incorporate some free weight exercises into your resistance training routine after you've become comfortable with it. Also, a good warm up session of stretching before resistance training is important to avoid injury. Be sure to also stay hydrated and drink a lot of water while exercising.

In general, a good guideline is 3 sets of 10-12 reps (repetitions), . Each exercise should be done on an every other day pattern, giving your muscles a chance to rest and repair in between sessions. However, to start out with for the first week or so, you may want to decrease your number of sets and reps to half this amount and gradually build up to this level, increasing  slightly as you go. You don't want to over work previously unused muscles and become sore.

Remember, this is resistance/strength training and not bodybuilding. 

I hope the basics of resistance training mentioned here will encourage you to add it to your fitness routine. The benefits of resistance training are usually noticeable within the first 3 weeks, and if you're faithful to your dietary intake, you should see some tangible results in fat loss. Take your measurements before you start resistance training, and then again 3 weeks later. You may not see a big drop in numbers on the scale, as muscle, even though it is smaller and denser than fat, weighs more. However, your clothes will fit better and you'll start seeing more and more muscle definition. You'll have more stamina, you'll look great and best of all you'll feel awesome!

Mark Rosenberg, M.D. Institute For Healthy Aging 

Below is a great blog written by Jeanette Sadowski Instantchiroblogs.com weblog  regarding simple exercises to increase your vertical and jump higher.  We use the Kinetic Bands with all 7 of these exercises in our training program.

7 Simple Exercises on How to Increase Vertical Leap and Jump Higher

Looking for ways to increase vertical jump?

By now, you probably know there’s no single solution, rather a combination of various techniques and power/strengthening exercises to optimise the best results for increase vertical jump.

The following ‘7′ exercises will give your legs a decent workout to gain increase vertical jump. Overtime and with continual practice, you can jump higher.

1) Warm Up The Muscles To Jump Higher

Like all different types of physical activities such as weight training and basketball, warming up and stretching the muscles are essential in avoiding injury and maximising performance.

Warm up exercises include jogging for a few minutes, jump-rope (which helps cardiovascular conditioning), running up and down the stairs for a few minutes.

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2) Deep Knee Bends - Stand and slowly bend the knees while keeping the back straight and crouch down as low as possible, and slowly rise up again.

Do this 15 times, and overtime increase the repetitions.

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This will strengthen the muscles for increase vertical jump.

3) Deep Knee Bend Jumps - Similar to Deep knee bends, except when at the lowest point of the crouch, vertically leap upwards.

At the point of landing, immediately crouch back and jump higher. Do this 15 times, and overtime, increase the repetitions.

For further strengthening, load your body with a medicine ball. This will not only focus on the muscle more, but will result in increase vertical jump overtime.

Note take this as opportunity to practice vertical jump technique. With practice and exercising, increase vertical jump will come over time.

4) Elevated Jumps - Place a bench or platform in-front of you, stand on it and then jump backwards to land softly.

Then with a bouncing motion, jump back onto the platform. Do this 10 times.

If this is your first time, please do it slowly and carefully.

5) Toe Raises - Stand as normal and slowly raise up on your toes, hold for a few seconds and lower back down steadily.

Do this 30 times, increase it overtime.

6) Toe-raise with weights - Exactly the same exercise as a Tow Raise, except that extra weight is added on to the body and held by the side.

Use small weights and increase the load overtime!

An advance form of exercise 5 and 6, is standing on the edge of a step with the toes and raise up and down. This focuses more on the calf muscle and helps increase vertical jump.

For more toning, use weights.

7) Practice vertical leaps to Increase Vertical Jump - Practice makes perfect.

Compound movements To Really Increase Vertical Jump

Compound multi joint movements are known to increase muscle strength more effectively than isolation movements.

The best exercises to increase vertical jump are squats, lunges and step ups which focuses on the muscles at the front of the thighs, the quadriceps, which includes the vastus intermedius, vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, and rectus femoris muscles.

The barbell squat also focuses on the hamstrings and glute muscles.

If done correctly, Squats is considered one of the best exercises for overall strength training which can lead to increase vertical jump.

When performing squats, avoid excessive forward leaning of the upper body, and excessive forward movements of the knees otherwise it will lead to injuries.

If this is the first attempt, please consult a personal trainer.

The key to these exercises are slow, controlled movements with proper technique.

Remember, to always start small and avoid the temptation to over-do the first workout.

Always, focus on proper technique with controlled movements of the muscle.

This way the leg muscles will be worked effectively which will result in an increase in vertical jump!

Exercise on a consistent basis, but without over-training or wasting too much time at the gym.

After a workout, stretch the muscles using basic hamstring and quadricep stretches to increase flexibility. Flexibility aids in the development of muscle growth and thus an increase vertical jump.

Lastly, after a solid workout and stretching, the muscles require a recovery period to grow and strengthen. With rest, the muscle will grow stronger which is essential for increase vertical jump!

Now that you have the basics on how to increase vertical jump, motivate yourself and be determined to action and plan with proper training to achieve your goal for increase vertical jump!

However, if you are really serious about increase vertical leap and jump higher fast, check out ‘Double Your Vertical Leap’ Program by clicking the link below.

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We are asked this question quite often. We believe young athletes can receive benefit from training with the Kinetic Bands beginning around the age of 6. The Kinetic Bands can easily be modified to accomodate these young athletes. In fact, I modified a set of bands for my 5 year old granddaughter who just began playing soccer. While she has not yet mastered a competitive mindset, she does enjoy using them while working out with her mom. The key is that she is having fun and is learning the concept of training to improve.

The key to success for these young athletes is to get them interested in training and to make it fun. If the training is too strenuous or repetitive it can ultimately take the fun out of playing the "Game" and the young athlete can quickly lose interest. Below are a few suggestions for training young athletes that can help improve ability while keeping it fun.

Invent games, like running around the yard, park, or inside facility. When training a group, you'll find that kids have a natural desire to out run their peers. Be sure to thank them all for giving it their best effort instead of praising the winners and publicly critizing those bringing up the rear. When an athlete feels a coach or parent truly cares about them as an individual, they naturally want to do their best to impress that person and make them proud.

We also suggest simple drills such as hopping or jumping back and forth over an object while setting a time frame and/or seeing how many they can do. This can help them develop personal goal setting skills, while building core strength, yet it feels more like fun than training.

Have them perform basic core development drills such as squats, squat jumps, lunges, leg raises, and any other movements that require full range of motion as well as change of direction.

Wearing the Kinetic Bands during this "fun time" training, your young athlete will improve core development, speed, flexibility, agility, endurance and balance which are all important components to improving athletic performance regardless of an athlete's age or sport they play.

I will blog again soon and provide some sport specific training with the bands that I have personally used as a coach to achieve great results.

Please let me know if you have questions regarding your young athlete(s).

Coach McQueen