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It’s that time of year where everyone is trying to get into better shape. because of that people try just about any kind of diet or exercise plan to try and lose weight.  Of course, not all these plans work, and most of them fail.  Worse than that, is that not only do many of these fail, but also they are incredibly expensive.

How many people have bought a Bowflex or some kind of ridiculous home gym, only to find that they never and use it at all. What about the total gym or those endless supply of ab machines and so on and so forth? America is by no means in short supply of ways to get in shape, yet we are still quite overweight as a country.

So, in a quest to find a workout system that works, helps build strength and muscle, and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg and come across an interesting paradox.  Is the paradox of profit.  You see, when I looked into equipment such as the total gym and other gyms I found that they are thousands of dollars or more.  It is quite unbelievable, in fact, how expensive it is to get a hold of a decent home exercise system.

I don’t have a lot of space in my house.  So doing Tae Bo or something in front of my TV isn’t necessarily optimal either. Since all the options were so expensive, I started looking elsewhere.

The Surprise At Wal-Mart

When I want to Wal-Mart on a whim to look around at their exercise equipment, I know Wal-Mart right? anyhow, I came across a pretty decent deal.  For like $10 or $15, I was able to buy this wonderful little exercise resistance band set that includes three different resistance bands like all work together or separately.  To sweeten the pot even includes a DVD with a 40 minute workout on as well and a poster with workout instructions. All of that only cost $15. I was stunned.

I started thinking.  Obviously, resistance bands shouldn’t be very expensive, because they’re pretty cheap to produce its really just some kind of rubber or plastic that’s pretty stretchy and so forth.  Thus, $15 is a pretty good price.  However, when I started actually trying them.  I found that they actually worked.

They gave a good amount of resistance and were quite versatile, and the amount of exercise that you could do.  For example, you can even attach them to a door and do some shoulder work similar to a seated row or a bench press. You can even do squats. It most certainly can do everything that a total gym can do and will give you just doesn’t work out.  Yet it doesn’t cost nearly as much.

Why Have I Never Heard Of These On TV?

After putting some real thought into this and came to the realization that the reason you never hear about the awesomeness that is resistance and workouts.  Is that, well, frankly.  There’s no profit in it.  Think about it, how much profit can Gold’s gym or anyone else be making for selling a $15 set of resistance bands. Probably maybe, I dunno $10 or so?

Now, compare that to the total gym or the Bowflex products.  Those products tend to retail for $300-$3,000 depending on the model.  Because of that, there is a significant profit margin there.  And of course that means that there is a significant marketing budget for it.

What this means to you is that if you don’t know about resistance bands no one is going to tell you.  There are fantastic deal and you can get an amazing workout, but don’t expect to see them on infomercial anytime soon.

Taking Resistance Bands To The Next Level

Since I bought my resistance bands.  I’ve gotten quite a bit of use out of them, but I found that I needed a new workout to take me to the next level.  What was included was great, but was really just the tip of the iceberg.

I found this new product called Mode Workouts. this book gave me a whole bunch of new ideas and workout programs that really helped me to continue to make progress.

You try to get in shape, but you don’t want to spend a ton of money.  You really owe it to yourself to buy a set of resistance bands and local sporting goods store or Wal-Mart or whatever.  You can even buy them online.

Don’t spend a lot of money, you should be able to get a decent set of them for $30 or less.  Once you get your workout bands try them to use them, try the Mode Workouts system, and shred the fat.

The best part of her resistance been worked out is that you can literally do them anywhere.  You can even bring him to the office or with you on vacation to make sure that no matter where you are, you can still get the work out that you want.  You’d never really do that with Bowflex.