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May 12

3 Female Fitness Trainers On How To Exercise With Resistance Bands – Tatler Philippines

By Relaxnews May 12, 2020

If you want to workout at home during this time of social distancing but you don't have any weights, don't worry. Celebrity trainers and fitness influencers Mel Alcantara, Kayla Itsines and Jen Widerstrom have all taken to Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic to show us how just a resistance band can offer a challenging and effective full-body workout.

Mel Alcantara, aka Fit Gurl Mel and trainer to Kim Kardashian, is a big fan of working out with resistance bands. In fact, she even sells her own on her website and has posted more than one video during this period of stay-at-home measures to show us how to use them. In her latestInstagrampostshe shows fans how to do a challenging workout starting with 20 minutes of walking lunges and followed by four rounds of each resistance band exercise, includingbanded hamstring curls, standing banded kickbacks,kneeling banded fire hydrants, banded step-outs, ankle banded jumping jacks, and frog pumps. Mel details the number of reps to do in the post, although you could do less and remove the ankle weights for an easier workout. She advises her fans to watch the video for her instructions on how to do each exercise correctly and safely.

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Kayla has already developed many at-home workouts for her fitness app SWEAT, and so she has been full of ideas during this period of social distancing on how we can keep moving at home with minimal space and equipment. In one of herInstagramposts she shows followers how recovery bands can be used instead of weights if you can't get to the gym, demonstrating in a video how to substitute a resistance band for a barbell, a dumbbell and even a cable machine to do a bent-over row, a tricep kickback and a chest fly for an effective upper body workout.

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