Friday, April 27, 2012

resistence band in a weight world? compare?

The use of the band is new to me- thought it was a joke at first then was impressed after 1st workout. Curious as to what amount of weight is the band equiv. to? any one with an idea? thanks!|||I've wondered about that too - i want to upgrade to a strong band, but I don't know what this one compares to. There's also Wii Weights that you can buy now where the controllers hook into the weight that look like a WAY better option. But they are only 2 pound weights, which is too light for me.|||I think the EA Active bands are 2 pounds -- definitely less than 5 imo based on tests done with others that have trouble with 5 pound weights. Whatever the pounds of resistance its not enough - I purchased prospirit triple stepper bands from target for about 20 bucks which have 3 bands of resistance (i think 8, 12, and 15) where u can combine a combination of all 3 for up to 30+ pounds. I swapped the handles from the Prospirit ones to the EA Active's so that I can hold the controllers at the same time.|||Well, not sure on the band that comes with Active, but Theraband's red (medium) band compares to the weight world as listed below. I've also listed the comparison for the green, blue and black bands available (online) between the brackets.
25% stretch = 0.7kg (green: 0.9 ; blue: 1.3 ; black: 1.6)
50% stretch = 1.2kg (green: 1.5 ; blue: 2.1 ; black: 2.9)
75% stretch = 1.5kg (green: 1.9 ; blue: 2.7 ; black: 3.7)
100% stretch = 1.8kg (green: 2.3 ; blue: 3.2 ; black: 4.4)
125% stretch = 2.0kg (green: 2.6 ; blue: 3.7 ; black: 5.0)
150% stretch = 2.2kg (green: 3.0 ; blue: 4.1 ; black: 5.6)
175% stretch = 2.5kg (green: 3.3 ; blue: 4.6 ; black: 6.1)
200% stretch = 2.7kg (green: 3.6 ; blue: 5.0 ; black: 6.7)
225% stretch = 2.9kg (green: 4.0 ; blue: 5.5 ; black: 7.4)
250% stretch = 3.2kg (green: 4.4 ; blue: 6.0 ; black: 8.0)
For those of you who still haven't adopted the SI-units (I'm a European myself), to convert these weights into lbs, multiply by 2.2 (or multiply by 2 and add 10%)
The values given are those as listed by Theraband. As said I am not sure how the band provided by EA compares, but I expect it to be similar. For those who need them there are three heavier bands than the ones listed above.

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