Resistance bands poundage recs?

[bzbnmom]

Does anyone know what resistance in pounds is the blue resistance band with the handles that Cathe sells? I do own one.

I'm also wondering what range of resistance bands (in pounds) is good for a guy for lat pull downs. My son wants to try these along with his dumbbell/barbell routine.

[desie]

I would suggest a pull-up bar for your son. You can loop a band onto the bar and step into it to do "assisted pull-ups" if you are not strong enough to do a pull-up. For lat pull-downs, most men can pull down almost their body weight, so you are not going to get a band that strong and will have nothing strong enough to anchor it to anyway.

[Chomper]

The assistance bands are good for Lat pull downs too, though you have to double them up because they're in loop form. That makes them even heavier.

I did lat pull downs for years with bands and would have to position myself at the other end of the room to get the tension I needed to feel challenged.

Now that I have assistance bands, I never use the other bands unless I'm doing a lighter strength move, like for smaller muscles. I have various sizes of this kind:

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Bands-Res...sistance+bands

You can also use these bands for squats, deadlifts, overhead press, bench press or pushup, lunges, etc. they are great for traveling.

[bzbnmom]

desie, thank you, that makes so much sense. We actually have a valor rack that can be used for pull/chin ups. I have seen him do several before. Geez, I don't know why we didn't think of that.

Chomper, the Body Bands look really nice. I wonder if the black 3/4" band would be equivalent to using the blue Cathe band? Hmmm, now if *I* were to start doing pull/chin ups, I would need these. I will keep them in mind. Thank you!